How the Brain Makes Decisions and What Key Role the Amygdala Plays in It: "We Found a New Circuit"
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A study by the Hospital del Mar Research Institute has advanced our understanding of how we make decisions through indirect associations, most of which we make on a daily basis. It may be useful for understanding some psychiatric disorders.


A study led by the Institute of Neurosciences (IN), a mixed center of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, has found that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a region of the brain that regulates emotions, plays a key role in the emergence of alterations such as anxiety, depression and changes in social behavior. This work, published in iScience magazine, shows that restorin…
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