Did you know that your speed — in a simple task of quickly pressing a button every time you see a yellow square — is faster when you are exhaling or pausing then when you are inhaling? Dr. Erika Yamazaki figured this out, did all the work, and published on it this week www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Our giant maze nearly set, next week the data collection begins!

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Finally out in @JOCN_Journal. We had hoped to inhibit the amygdala using transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) as a proof-of-concept that the amygdala is causally involved in emotional episodic memory encoding, but this backfired…1/10 direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

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Excited to share our lab's recent paper showing that direct electrical stimulation of the human amygdala enhances recognition memory for objects but not scenes. The article is open-access, and we'd love to hear your thoughts! Please share! TY to everyone involved! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Well said, Joe LeDoux. 10 years ago me would probably regard this as bonkers. Until you sit down to puzzle through questions about emotion/mood (and mental suffering), it’s easy to take one of two sides but the answers most likely lie in the middle. /1 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

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