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Mon 29 Dec 2008 4:56pm
The Amygdala Resource Center explains, “The Amygdala (amygdalae; plural) are a pair of small organs within the medial temporal lobes of the brain. The amygdala are part of the limbic system and their primary role is in the processing and memory of emotional reactions such as the anxiety reaction or ‘flight or fight’ response.
“In humans, the amygdala
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Wed 07 Oct 2009 4:41pm
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The Amygdala, (or Amygdalae, a pair of small organs in the brain), store and perpetuates the anxiety response and anxiety disorders. By reprogramming the Amygdala, The Linden Method permanently removes the inappropriate anxiety that causes anxiety disorders, panic attacks, agoraphobia, OCD, PTSD and other anxiety
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Sat 13 Sep 2008 6:30pm
Show my your amygdala size and I’ll tell you who you are! In a study by Omura, Constable & Canli in the November 2005 issue of NeuroReport (see abstract + links below), the sizes of the right and left amygdalae were compared to assessment of the levels of extraversion and neuroticism. The results indicated that the smaller your right amygdala
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Wed 15 Sep 2010 5:20pm
[Video from Anxiety Relief Solutions ]
What the amygdala does
The Amygdala and Anxiety
A research news article reports, “The amygdala is known to be involved in social anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and obsessions and compulsions, and is now being linked with separation anxiety and general anxiety.” (From “Changes in Children’s Amygdala
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Posted
Fri 17 Jul 2009 10:16pm
Here is a heads up for a recent study demonstrating – again – that the amygdala is not merely a “fear centre” in the brain. I have previously blogged about the amygdala, first not being a single structure, and that it is not only involved in fear.
In 2007, a team of French researchers demonstrated that direct stimulation of the amygdala did evoke
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Thu 20 Jan 2011 8:26pm
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“There is a small almond shaped organ in your brain called the Amygdala, which must share some of the blame.”
Continued in his article Trying To Achieve Success And The Little Almond Shaped... Developing Talent newsletter using the form below, or in his article.
The image is from the video Emotions in the brain, from post Anxiety and the Amygdala .
A related post
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Posted
Thu 16 Sep 2010 8:40pm
and creative expression.
Research is helping explain shyness in terms of brain physiology, particularly involving the amygdala (technically amygdalae) – a pair of structures... different parts of your brain for analysis. One is the frontal cortex… The other is called the amygdala (uh-MIG-duh- luh), which is actually two nerve centers that look like almonds
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Posted
Tue 28 Jul 2009 11:30pm
a tempting snack like a potato chip, the area of the brain called the Amygdala lights up with activity and sends feelings of anticipation and desire. And once they start eating, the region shuts down.
But for an overeater the Amygdala remains activated while eating, creating that feeling of want and coaxing the desire even after 5, 10 or even 50 cookies
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Tue 03 Mar 2009 2:53pm
Two metabolites in the amygdala are associated with clinical impairment in autism.
A review of: Natalia M. Kleinhans, Todd Richards, Kurt E. Weaver, Olivia Liang, Geraldine... and children with autism - a move that has implications for how we conduct and evaluate etiological and mechanistic research.
In sum, the authors were interested in examining amygdala
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