Jon Foster-Pedley is associate Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading and dean and director of Henley Business School Africa. There’s a small cluster of neurons the size of an almond in the ...

The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped structure in the limbic system of our brain, known for its key function in the cascade of events associated with detecting threat. When the thalamus communicates ...

Cannabinoid receptors, through which marijuana exerts its effects, have been found in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response. This is the ...