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Amygdala in sentence

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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.
By stimulating the good memories that will be stored in the amygdala, the emotional storage of the human brain.
But from that area, the message cascades into a structure called the amygdala in the limbic system, the emotional core of the brain, and that structure, called the amygdala, gauges the emotional significance of what you're looking at.
So if the amygdala is excited, and this is something important, the messages then cascade into the autonomic nervous system.
And then the message cascades into the amygdala, and then goes down the autonomic nervous system.
But maybe, in this chap, that wire that goes from the amygdala to the limbic system, the emotional core of the brain, is cut by the accident.
People like Joe have a deficit in a brain area called the amygdala.
The amygdala is an almond-shaped organ deep within each of the hemispheres of the brain.
Normally, the more empathic a person is, the larger and more active their amygdala is.
Our population of inmates had a deficient amygdala, which likely led to their lack of empathy and to their immoral behavior.
But then, in the 1990s, studies starting showing, following the lead of Elizabeth Gould at Princeton and others, studies started showing the evidence of neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells in the adult mammalian brain, first in the olfactory bulb, which is responsible for our sense of smell, then in the hippocampus involving short-term memory, and finally in the amygdala itself.
It is now clear that the amygdala of mammals, including primates like us, can show neurogenesis.
Our research does not suggest that criminals should submit their MRI scans as evidence in court and get off the hook because they've got a faulty amygdala.
This stimulates the amygdala and may be a more effective rehabilitative practice than simple incarceration.
Wouldn't it be better if, while serving his sentence, Joe was able to train his amygdala, which would stimulate the growth of new brain cells and connections, so that he will be able to face the world once he gets released?
And on MRI scans, we see measurable differences in the amygdala, the brain's fear response center.
In order to become lasting memories, these sensory experiences have to be consolidated by the hippocampus, influenced by the amygdala, which emphasizes experiences associated with strong emotions.
Your brain responds to stressful stimuli by releasing hormones known as corticosteroids, which activate a process of threat-detection and threat-response in the amygdala.
The amygdala prompts your hippocampus to consolidate the stress-inducing experience into a memory.
When corticosteroids stimulate the amygdala, the amygdala inhibits, or lessens the activity of, the prefrontal cortex.
Once they are triggered, the signal travels through a bundle called the olfactory tract to destinations all over your brain, making stops in the amygdala, the thalamus, and the neocortex.
For example, chronic stress increases the activity level and number of neural connections in the amygdala, your brain's fear center.
The part of the brain that's the most important for recognizing fearful expressions is called the amygdala.
And whereas healthy adults and children usually show big spikes in amygdala activity when they look at fearful expressions, psychopaths' amygdalas are underreactive to these expressions.
A sort of antipsychopathic brain, better able to recognize other people's fear, an amygdala that's more reactive to this expression and maybe larger than average as well?
This may be in part because their amygdala is more reactive to these expressions.
For example, the brain's amygdala is involved in thinking, long-term memory, and emotional processing.
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