According to this week's Nature Neuroscience, the right amygdala is specialized to effectively and quickly process visual representations of animals.
Nature Neuroscience, 9, 429-434 (1 March 2006).
Nature Neuroscience 7: 968-973, 2004.
Their results appear in a recent issue of Nature Neuroscience.
But a report to appear in next month's issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience serves as a reminder of how intransigent some trauma can be.
The Duke study will be published in the May 18 issue of Nature Neuroscience but is being released today.
Nature Neuroscience 3, 237 - 238 (2001).
The study appears in Nature Neuroscience's advance online edition.
The new policy stems from a conflict of interest case last year involving a review article in Nature Neuroscience that evaluated experimental treatments for depression.
Nature Neuroscience is a monthly scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group.