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| | Brain Explorer - amygdala |
 | | The amygdala is situated in the temporal, in front of the hippocampus, and functions to control autonomic, emotional and sexual behaviour. |
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http://www.brainexplorer.org/glossary/amygdala.shtml
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| | THE AMYGDALA AND THE EMOTIONS |
| | Chapter 9 -- The Amygdala and the Emotions | | | Amygdala outputs tend to originate in the central nucleus, the most peptide-rich region of the brain, and are carried by peptide-containing fibers in the stria terminalis and ventral amygdalofugal pathway. | | | In general, the lateral portion of the amygdala is regarded as inhibitory and reflective of the external environment, whereas the medial amygdala is regarded as facilitatory and reflective of the internal environment. |
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http://www.benbest.com/science/anatmind/anatmd9.html
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| | Amygdala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Located deep in the brain's medial temporal lobe, the almond-shaped amygdala (in Latin, corpus amygdaloideum) is believed to play a key role in the emotions. | | | In language learning, some hypothesize that second-language learning for adults may not make ready use of the amygdala in procedural memory usage and so emotional links to words are slower to form. | | | Tha amygdala, especially the basolateral amygdala, plays a key role in influencing memory consolidation of such learning, as shown by many laboratories including that of James L. McGaugh. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala
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| | The Amygdala |
| | The amygdala is a small part of the brain, which plays a vital processing role in the emotional state of a person. | | | The amygdala and the hippocampus work side by side; the amygdala associated with the emotional state of a person, while the hippocampus is more of the physical aspect. | | | "The amygdala, emotion and learning." Psychologist 13 (2000): 502. |
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http://www.tjhsst.edu/~rgreen/brain/mstewart.htm
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| | The literature that figured prominently in the generation of the amygdala theory of autism and the notion that the amygdala is essential for normal social behavior was very influential on our own program of studies aimed at unraveling the neurobiology of primate social behavior. | | | The Amygdala and Autism In their seminal studies on the neuropathology of the autistic brain, Bauman and Kemper ADDIN ENRfu (1985) noted that the medially situated nuclei of the amygdaloid complex had clusters of small, tightly packed neurons that were not observed in control brains. | | | Early Amygdala Lesions do not Eliminate Social Behavior One caveat of this conclusion that the amygdala is not essential for social behavior is that these experiments were carried out in mature monkeys. |
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http://psych.colorado.edu/~munakata/csh/Novartis_paper_6-12-02.doc
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| | THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM |
| | The amygdala is a brain structure that is essential for decoding emotions, and in particular stimuli that are threatening to the organism. | | | Various aspects of an especially emotional situation such as a car accident will therefore be processed both by the hippocampus and by the amygdala, working in parallel. | | | Thus, the ability that our superior mental structures give us to voluntarily plan an emotional response suited to the situation is a wonderful complement to our system of rapid, automatic responses. |
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http://www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_04/i_04_cr/i_04_cr_peu/i_04_cr_peu.htm
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| | The Role of the Amygdala in Fear and Panic |
| | The amygdala is considered to be the key component to the limbic system, a term that has also been regarded with much recent controversy by researchers in the field of emotions. | | | This method is inhibiting the emotional response produced by the amygdala during a threatening situation. | | | The patient still remembers that he used to be afflicted by his phobia, but no longer has the emotional response attached to it (3). |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Holt2.html
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| | The Amygdala: The Mind's "Emotional Engine" Focus of 2002 Conference Conference Set for March 24-26 in Galveston, Texas ... |
| | Hopefully, research into the amygdala will lead to the development of drugs that could alleviate the problem or the design of cognitive therapies to improve the condition of schizophrenics. | | | The amygdala, despite its relatively small size, has been implicated in a variety of behaviors ranging from perception of facial expressions to enhancing memory in emotional situations to coordinating maternal behavior. | | | March 24, 2002 -- Recent breakthroughs in amygdala research have the potential to transform the treatment of psychiatric conditions as well as expand our knowledge of why and how we feel various emotions. |
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http://www.nyas.org/about/newsDetails.asp?newsID=65&year=2002
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| | Fear and the Amygdala |
| | Researchers also are examining the role of the amygdala in less distressing types of emotions, such as happiness. | | | Research in rodents revealed brain pathways, centering on the amygdala, that were preprogrammed to respond to danger. | | | This could signify that the area is defective and a lifetime of therapy designed to alter behavior would not be able to stifle the fear response. |
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http://web.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/fear.html
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| | Febrile Seizures, Amygdala, Autism |
| | A survey of amygdala and autism literatures indicates that the areas identified by Tuunanen and colleagues participate in several autistic traits (eg, eye-contact avoidance). | | | Based upon neuroanatomical studies of the amygdala in higher primates including humans, the sub-areas identified by Tuunanen et al are linked with certain traits in autism. | | | This localization within certain amygdaloid sub-areas is not suprising, for a number of autism researchers have suggested amygdala participation (eg, 23-35), especially since amygdala atypicalities were reported in the 1985 Bauman and Kemper autopsy study (23). |
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http://members.jorsm.com/~binstock/fs-amyg.htm
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| | Viewzone: Amygdala Stimulation |
| | Various researches have found that stimulation of this part of the brain results in automatic responses of pain or pleasure- depending which part of the amygdala is stimulated. | | | Simple electrical anterior amygdala stimulation shuts off the "killer instinct" and results in automatic responses of cooperative and pleasurable behavior. | | | When a person learns how to internally stimulate the amygdala and voluntarily increase frontal lobes processes at will, it can eventually result in a very intense peak phenomenon known as "frontal lobes transcendence" or "popping your frontal lobes". |
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http://www.viewzone.com/amygdala/index4.html
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| | Amygdala, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
| | The amygdala has an interesting function in this respect in the fact that it is the amygdala that processes a wide range of emotional "language". | | | As well as the above functions, the amygdalas are involved in a wide array of activities ranging from emotions, phobias, traumatic response, rage, anger, aggression, sexuality as well endocrine functions. | | | Several commentators have suggested that the future of law and order lies in a greater understanding of the amygdala, so that those we don't like very much might have "help" in the form of an "adjustment" to their amygdalas. |
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http://www.23nlpeople.com/Amygdala.htm
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| | NEUROSCIENCE STUDENTS |
| | Electrical stimulation of the amygdala, specifically the central nucleus, produces a series of behavioral and anatomical changes nearly identical to those produced in a state of fear. | | | Thus, activation of the amygdala elicits a set of behaviors resembling fear responses by projecting to a number of target areas such as the hypothalamus, the central grey and many of the cranial nerves (Davis 355-357). | | | These results suggested that once the sound stimulus was processed in the auditory thalamus and midbrain it traveled to another region other that the auditory cortex and this connection is what results in physiological responses to the stimuli. |
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http://academic.uofs.edu/department/neuro/fear.html
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| | Love |
| | Previous studies have shown, for example, that the amygdala is stimulated by erotic movies, and it's considered vital for mating behavior in many animals. | | | Australian researchers from the University of Melbourne have determined that a man or woman's sex drive may be proportional to the size of his or her amygdala, a miniature "emotion" center that is nestled at the base of the brain, reports Nature News Service. | | | Nature News notes that as part of the treatment for epilepsy, each had undergone surgery to remove part of his or her brain, which freed up the remaining areas to run more normally. |
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http://channels.netscape.com/love/package.jsp?name=fte/brainsize/brainsize&floc=wn-np
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| | BBC NEWS UK Wales Blind man 'sees' emotions |
| | The area involved was identified as the right amygdala, an almond-shape structure situated deep within the brain's temporal lobe. | | | Scans showed that when the man looked at faces with emotion, another part of his brain, the amygdala, was activated. | | | Scientists were able to establish that emotion displayed on a human face is registered in an area other than the visual cortex. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4090155.stm
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| | Brain Activity Reflects Complexity Of Responses To Other-race Faces |
| | -- Psychologists have found that the amygdala, a subcortical region of the brain involved in emotional responses, is associated with a measure of unconscious race bias, especially when responding to faces presented subliminally. | | | Their experiment, which suggests that the conscious brain can compensate for unconscious prejudices, assessed participants' reaction to faces displayed either subliminally, for three-hundredths of a second, or supraliminally, for slightly more than half a second. | | | However, all of the participants expressed disagreement with prejudiced statements and a personal interest in egalitarian behavior. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041208231237.htm
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| | Astral Voyage - Astral Projection - Our Amygdala: The Astral Projection Switch? |
| | Neil states that during sleep, our reptilian brain ego function is at its lowest point of control which allows our frontal lobes to take over. | | | This happens during REM sleep (and this is also what I said under my sleep article; that we shouldn't mimic sleep, but REM sleep!) He also states that "during sleep, our brain's electrochemical currents are allowed free access to the frontal lobes- precisely because our amygdala are clicked forward out of reptilian self-preservation circuits". | | | Neil Slade does what he calls "Brain Travel" by clicking his amygdala forward. |
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http://www.astralvoyage.com/projection/amygdala.html
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| | amygdala |
| | "The amygdala coordinates the actions of the autonomic and endocrine systems and is involved in emotions" (Kelly and Dodd 1991:277). | | | After surgical removal of the amygdala, growls, screams, angry voices, and other negative signs may lose their meaning and become incomprehensible as afferent cues. | | | In an anxious meeting, e.g., we may unconsciously flex our arms, lean away, or angle away from colleagues who upset us. |
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http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/amygdala.htm
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| | Limbic System |
| | The amygdala is the nucleus responsible for the lurch you feel in your stomach when you turn around in a dark alley and notice someone following you. | | | Epilepsy surgery provides an opportunity to stimulate areas of the brain to determine the extent of the epileptic focus. | | | It couples a learned sensory stimulus (man in ski mask in alley = danger) to an adaptive response (fight or flight). |
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http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/limbic.html
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - Amygdala Smaller in Cocaine Addicts |
| | The amygdala is an area of the brain that plays a role in drug craving, emotional behavior and reward. | | | Also, researchers do not know if people addicted to other drugs also have smaller amygdala sizes. | | | If it turns out that a smaller amygdala size increases the risk that a person will become addicted to drugs, it may be possible for people to get a brain scan to examine the amygdala. |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amyco.html
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| | Scientists Uncover New Mechanism For The Amygdala In Fear Recognition |
| | The study, published in the Jan. 6 issue of Nature, suggests that the mechanism by which the amygdala contributes to processing visual information about facial expressions is by actively directing a person's gaze to the eye region to seek out and fixate on the critical visual cues for fear. | | | The current series of experiments showed that a particular patient fails to make use of information about the eyes in faces, and one reason for that is that she fails to look at the eyes in faces in the first place. | | | The study may have implications for conditions such as autism, where patients also show abnormal fixation on facial features and have a disrupted ability to interpret emotion from facial expressions. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050106110624.htm
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| | Lifeline Anxiety Disorder Newsletter - Is the amygdala the key? |
| | The area of the brain known as the limbic system is made up of a number of structures which are linked together by fibre pathways and control such behaviour as emotional expression and memory storage and recall. | | | Fear seems to send nerve impulses along the pathway from the ear to the thalamus and either directly to the amygdala or, more desirably, into the auditory portion of the sensory cortex, where they can be analysed before being sent to the amygdala. | | | With more scientists focusing on the emotional brain, the unravelling of the memory functions of the amygdala will favourably impact on treatment for anxiety disorders. |
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http://www.designandcopy.ca/lifeline/backissues/5-2.html
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| | Neil Slade's Easy Amygdala Click Lesson Part 2 |
| | Your amygdala has just clicked forward, and you did it ON PURPOSE all by yourself. | | | Using the above brain fact, we can effectively play with our amygdala, using our nose, and cause it to click both forward and backward INSTANTANEOULSY and MOST DEFINITELY. | | | The nose is connected to the amygdala because your mammal ancestors (dogs and cats and monkeys) coundn't "think" ahead for dangers and pleasures Their prehistoric mammal frontal lobes were too tiny. |
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http://www.neilslade.com/art/Brain/easy.html
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| | The Amygdala : biological roots of depression |
| | he amygdala is a key structure in the brain's integration of emotional meaning with perception and experience. | | | To better understand the anatomical basis for these functional changes we measured the volumes of the total amygdala and of the core amygdala nuclei in 20 patients with a history of depression and 20 pair-wise matched controls. | | | Patients with depression have impaired functioning in emotional tasks involving the amygdala, and have abnormal resting amygdala blood flow. |
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http://www.biopsychiatry.com/amygdala.html
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| | The Amygdala by-pass system |
| | All sensory data (except, curiously, for the sense of smell) is sent by the body first to the Thalamus, which acts like a switchboard, sending it to the relevant part of the brain. | | | Sometimes this shock treatment that leads to unthinking responses can be useful in the way that it causes the person to reflect afterwards. | | | A little thing called the Amygdala that controls our fear responses can stop us from thinking. |
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http://changingminds.org/explanations/brain/amygdala_bypass.htm
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| | Revealed: How We Detect Fear in Others' Eyes |
| | A new study shows that the amygdala actively seeks out potentially important information in the face of another person. | | | She has a brain lesion in the amygdala. | | | Scientists have long known that the amygdala, an almond-shaped part of the brain, is critical for the perception of fear. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0105_050105_brain_fear.html
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| | Amygdala -s/t |
| | I was itching to know what, if anything, Amygdala meant and a quick Google search turned up the following: It is a set of subcortical nuclei that is important for perceiving in others and having in oneself emotional or affective behaviors and feelings (e.g. | | | In summary, Amygdala are by no means doing anything new or different. | | | There are no drums in the credits, just programming, so if these aren't real drums then these guys are doing a mighty impressive job with the programming. |
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http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue30/amygdala.html
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| | Amygdala |
| | My prof (Richard Schmidt), briefly explained what the amygdala is and how it functions, and he also told us that monkeys who have had their amygdala removed demonstrate indifference to pleasure and pain. | | | In this article, PandS note that the amygdala section of the brain may play an important role in learners' motivation of learning. | | | I'm curious to know the life span of these monkeys. |
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http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may96/828789381.An.q.html
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| | Neil Slade Amygdala Chart |
| | It will quickly remove all the unconscious habits that keep you clicked backward. | | | You will learn how to click your amygdala forward and turn on genius levels of creativity, intelligence, pleasure, and even ESP in 1/10 the amount of time that students took to learn back in the early days of our brain research. | | | About 40% into it, you will see the LIMBIC SYSTEM--- and the AMYGDALA is |
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http://www.neilslade.com/chart.html
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| | - Forbes.com |
| | In a second, related study, published in the March 3 issue of Neuron, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, said they have identified a molecular "trigger" for the kind of memory decline that characterizes early Alzheimer's. | | | Working with mice genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's disease, the researchers found that the buildup of the protein beta amyloid in and around brain cells in the hippocampus, amygdala and cerebral cortex coincide with noticeable lapses in the mice's ability to navigate a maze they had successfully navigated in the past. | | | Both of these studies offer new reason for hope, Netzer said. |
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http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/03/02/hscout524291.html
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