Trauma can affect your brain impacting memory focus and decision-making over time Learn the connection between stress and ...

The amygdala, responsible for detecting ... with problem-solving and regulation of emotions. Trauma reduces activity in the ...

The amygdala overpowers the rational part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, that normally interprets and regulates emotional experience and directs a behavioral response. Much of that brain ...

Surprisingly, administering ketamine did not increase resting-state functional connectivity between the amygdala ... prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region central to regulating emotional responses.