amygdala

No need to tell us about the role the amygdala or stress hormones play in anxiety, we knew how we were wired.

This may be because of changes in your amygdala, the main area of your brain responsible for emotions like fear.

The team found that fear transfer relied on connections from the cortex to part of the amygdala, a region known to respond to fear.

For example, among a group of study participants who underwent an eight-week mindfulness class, MRIs showed their amygdalae shrank.

Kate Jeffery, a neuroscientist at University College London, explains that the amygdala—the emotional center of the brain—plays a role in spatial awareness by sending messages like, This is a place where bad things happen.

Psychopaths lack fear, conscience, and morality—functions critically subserved by the amygdala.

To answer this question we assessed amygdala functioning in 1,795 3-year-old children using fear conditioning.

One limbic structure affected by this early maldevelopment is the amygdala, which generates emotions like fear.

His aorta and amygdala do not receive this information by automatic transfer.

That suggests that “the amygdala is quite sensitive to the quality of maternal care,” says Lupien.

It derives its name from the Greek word amygdala, an almond.

The common English name is from the Latin amandola, corrupted from amygdala.