Fork in the road: The amygdalae of autistic children with an autism-specific form of anxiety and those with more traditional anxiety follow divergent developmental paths. Derek Andrews The amygdala — which is involved in fear and emotion processing and comprises a small region in each brain hemisphere — develops differently in autistic children with anxiety […]
Place, place: Glutamate receptors in a rat model of Fragile X syndrome overlap with presynaptic markers at synapses in the amygdala (above), but not in the hippocampus (below). Activation of the activity of certain receptors in the amygdala reverses some features of Fragile X syndrome in a rat model of the disease, according to a […]
