Amygdala is constantly screening the environment for potential dangers.
Amygdala also keeps track of all, what we call, emotional trauma, everything what caused you pain in the past.
Amygdala absolutely hates uncertainty.
Amygdala dominant thinking distorts the reality because amygdala 's job is to point out anything that can cause you harm.
Amygdala 's rumination is like a toddler screaming.
Amygdala , volume doubles involved in the motion generation and emotional memory.
Amygdala hijacking puts us back into fight, flight, or freeze, sort of more basic, instinctive reactions.
My amygdala is when I'm scared.
our amygdala response.
The amygdala is responsible for learning to avoid that peppermint odor.
Adolescents' amygdala was reacting no matter who they were looking at.
Our amygdala just lights up, and it's just, like, a 0.0001 second reaction.
The amygdala is this emotional center of the brain up here that processes all these sensory inputs.
The amygdala was actually 60% more responsive under conditions of a lack of sleep.
the amygdala takes over.
The amygdala is fully developed at birth.
Your amygdala , the fight-or-flight response part of your brain is triggered in these moments.
The amygdala can't if there's something dangerous behind it or something is happening 20,000 miles away.
The amygdala hijacks.
The amygdala is involved in processing a lot of different emotions, but its basic job is to say, OK, so what?
The amygdala is involved in processing lots of different emotions, but the other emotions can go on one of those back alleys.
The amygdala sends a signal to the hippocampus and says, what is this?
The amygdala takes over the system.
The amygdala in a man is wired up to go right to the part of the brain-- fight or flight is the amygdala -- into solving the problem.
The amygdala is the part of the emotional brain which is the radar for threat.
The amygdala doesn't care.
Their amygdala is firing.
Their amygdalas under-perform. And my amygdala was, like, over-performing.
The amygdala , it has to do with emotion.
The amygdala likes that.
Our amygdalas right now are answering the question amygdalas have asked all through evolution.
So we have amygdala in each side of our brain.
And the more the amygdala response went down, the more lying went up on the next attempt that they had the opportunity to lie.
So that's called amygdala sensitization.
Now when amygdala is raging and suppressing prefrontal cortex, it doesn't even need to suppress it to such extreme extent.
as it soothes the amygdala .
Because if amygdala gets carried away, it creates rumination, which is really-- we can't just-- it's imaginable.
We need to desensitize amygdala as well.
The first is the amygdala .
This is the amygdala , and the blue represents that age-related change.
So you want the amygdala kind of chugging along at an early age.
It's buffering amygdala reactivity in the rat pup.
of the amygdala in their children.
And so the amygdala , when it is hijacked, that means when you are scared to death.
That's that amygdala .
to the amygdala will be stronger.
You're getting the amygdala , hypothalamus, and so forth, the emotional areas of the brain.
That's the amygdala , the lizard brain.
in the amygdala .
And my amygdala had learned that and didn't talk to my cortex about it, but it wasn't going to happen again.