Infantile amnesia, the inability of adults to recollect early episodic memories, is associated
with the rapid forgetting that occurs in childhood. It has been suggested that infantile …

Species-expected caregiving early in life is critical for the normative development and
regulation of emotional behavior, the ability to effectively evaluate affective stimuli in the …

Remarkably little is known about the postnatal cellular development of the human amygdala.
It plays a central role in mediating emotional behavior and has an unusually protracted …

In recent years, a growing body of research has shown sex differences in the prevalence
and symptomatology of psychopathologies, such as depression, anxiety, and fear-related …

The human amygdala grows during childhood, and its abnormal development is linked to
mood disorders. The primate amygdala contains a large population of immature neurons in …

Brain subcortical structures are paramount in many cognitive functions and their aberrations
during infancy are predisposed to various neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric …

The amygdala undergoes aberrant development in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We
previously found that there are reduced neuron numbers in the adult postmortem amygdala …

Animals, including humans, require a highly coordinated and flexible system of social
behavior and threat evaluation. However, trauma can disrupt this system, with the amygdala …

Fear is an emotion that serves as a driving factor in how organisms move through the world.
In this review, we discuss the current understandings of the subjective experience of fear …

Within the national opioid epidemic, there has been an increase in the number of infants
exposed to opioids in utero. Additionally, opioid agonist medications are the standard of …