the ventral part has been particularly linked to processing threats and anxiety. They hypothesized that this ventral hippocampus could be the key to understanding how the brain scales its response ...

The atlas is a colorful mosaic; the colors in this image represent different cell types on the left and defined brain regions on the right side. It provides insights into how cellular location shapes ...

And in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), research suggests that areas of the brain that inhibit the activity of the amygdala (such as the ventral medial ... appear to have a part in anxiety ...

When we do something pleasurable, a bundle of neurons called the ventral tegmental area uses the neurotransmitter dopamine to signal to a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

Like a bicycle, your brain is made up of different parts all coming together to make the whole thing work. It has two halves called the left and right hemispheres and in the biggest part ...

To do so, Lehmann screened 5,500 fly lines for gene expression in the ventral nerve cord, similar to the spinal cord in vertebrates ... a neuroscientist at the National Center of Scientific Research ...

19 in Nature and supported in part by federal funding ... experiments to see how this process plays out in a brain region called the ventral striatum, which stores information about possible ...