Bad news sells because the Amygdala is always.
You've reached the Amygdala.
I think we should consider Amygdala ablation for Ben.
Your Amygdala acts as your brain's threat radar and alarm.
But an Amygdala response doesn't always mean a stress response.
Darker faces elicited more Amygdala activity when white subjects were fMRI scannned.
The Amygdala prompts your hippocampus to consolidate the stress-inducing experience into a memory.
The change in the Amygdala was also correlated to a reduction in stress levels.
This was a critical
insight as the the medial prefrontal cortex itself regulates Amygdala function.
When you do this repeatedly over months or years,
you begin to retrain your runaway Amygdala.
Performance on indirect measures of race evaluation predicts Amygdala activity, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 1-10.
When corticosteroids stimulate the Amygdala, the Amygdala inhibits, or lessens the activity of, the prefrontal cortex.
When the Amygdala is active with blood and oxygen,
there is less activation in the prefrontal cortex.
When the Amygdala works as it should,
it orchestrates a physiological response to changes in the environment.
The Amygdala- seat of the brain's fight or flight response-
is particularly“aroused” when we haven't slept enough.
Interestingly, the Amygdala interacts with the body's“fight-or-flight” response while the hippocampus is involved with introspection,
learning, and memory.
The idea that the Amygdala is the home of fear in the brain is just that-
an idea.
When short on sleep, the Amygdala goes into overdrive,
causing us to be more intensely reactive to situations.
The limbic system contains six main parts- the thalamus, hypothalamus,
pituitary gland, Amygdala, hippocampus, nucleus accumbens and the VTA.
When the Amygdala is active with blood and oxygen,
there is less blood and oxygen in the prefrontal cortex.
The Amygdala handles some memory processing,
but for the most part handles basic emotions like fear, anger and jealousy.
When the Amygdala is hyper-reactive,
it gives false alarms of danger and false alarms of the seriousness of a provocation.
You can only in theory go to the past, events that the Amygdala recalls, events that have emotional weight.
No, because we can teach the Amygdala not to react to situations that cause it to release stress hormones.
It could all be down to the biology of the brain, and what the Amygdala is making you feel.
According to studies, this is because of decreased activity in the Amygdala, which is responsible for fear, among other emotions.
Conservative brains have more volume in the Amygdala- the part of our brain that is related to emotional
and fear-based learning.
Ordering people to change and then telling them how to do it
fires the prefrontal cortex's hair-trigger connection to the Amygdala.
Ordering people to change and them telling them how to do it
fires the prefrontal cortex's hair-trigger connection to the Amygdala.
Depending on the species, oxytocin receptor-expressing cells are
located in other areas, including the Amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.