Amygdala
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Repeated stress causes neurons in the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex to shrink and lose connections with other nerve cells, while it also causes neurons in the
amygdala
to grow and form new connections.
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For example, it's been shown to stimulate neural growth in the amygdala, in the area where it controls emotions.
And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe called the
amygdala.
Now the
amygdala
is our early warning detector, our danger detector.
And what they found is that the amygdala, a part of the brain associated in part with fear and anxiety, lit up when people looked at angular objects, but not when they looked at the round ones.
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