Amygdala

Personalized Accelerated TMS Therapy Targeting Brain’s Threat Circuity Significantly Reduced PTSD Symptoms
A clinical trial led by BBRF grantees has demonstrated for the first time that personalized targeting of non-invasive TMS brain stimulation therapy can reduce the brain’s reactivity to threat in… Read More
Non-invasive Ultrasound Brain Modulation Therapy Shows Potential to Treat Mood, Anxiety, Trauma, Across Diagnoses in Pilot Trial
Over the last two decades, non-invasive brain stimulation, especially rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation), has become a widely used therapy for psychiatric disorders, most especially… Read More
New Insights Into Mechanisms Underpinning Susceptible and Resilient Responses To Traumatic Stress
It has long been understood that people who are under constant (“chronic”) and acute traumatic stress are at high risk of developing anxiety and depressive disorders. Over the last 10-20 years,… Read More
Researchers Identify Molecule That Orchestrates Association of Events With Positive and Negative Memories
Being able to emotionally tag important experiences as either “positive” or “negative” and to remember those associations is one of the great achievements and marvels of evolution. When our ancient… Read More
Decreasing depression symptoms with feedback-based therapy
By providing patients in real-time with information about activity in a part of the brain called the amygdala, and training them via biofeedback to control this activity, researchers discovered a… Read More