How the brain processes emotions

MIT-Emotional-Wiring

Click Here to Read and View: How the brain processes emotions: Neuroscientists identify circuits that could play a role in mental illnesses, including depressionby Anne Trafton on the MIT News website on March 31, 2016.

Two neurons of the basolateral amygdala. MIT neuroscientists have found that these neurons play a key role in separating information about positive and negative experiences.

Image: Anna Beyeler and Praneeth Namburi