“The amygdala can accomplish its quick response because of the special properties of another nucleus within it: the central nucleus.” — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Hey amygdala, what’s wrong with a nice vignette that features me enjoying a warm day on a Florida beach” — Rick Gatzby Copy Share Image
“The role of the amygdala is to attach emotional significance to situations or objects and to form emotional memories.” — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“Our problem-scanning machine (amygdala) and our serenity-now mood tape (prefrontal cortex) are at war.” — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
“The lateral nucleus is the part of the amygdala that receives incoming messages from the senses.” — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“The quick reaction that results from the amygdala pathway is typically called the fight-or-flight response.” — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“Vipassan meditation is the best way to unlearn old habits of basal ganglia and amygdala, and strengthen the neocortex of the brain.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
We've done fMRI scans of people taking the 'Reading the Eyes' test, and what we've found is that the amygdala lights up… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“The “Intense World” paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before… — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years ago, when our ancestors encountered a predatory animal like a lion, it was best to react immediately and not… — John B. Arden Copy Share Image
“It can be proven that wounded people wound others. Walk circumspectly among wounded people, their injuries are deeply submerged in their brain's… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“Logically, when the amygdala wants to mobilize a behavior—say, fleeing—it talks to the frontal cortex, seeking its executive approval. But if sufficiently… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The most convincing data concern rare humans with damage restricted to the amygdala, either due to a type of encephalitis or a… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“During sustained stress, the amygdala processes emotional sensory information more rapidly and less accurately, dominates hippocampal function, and disrupts frontocortical function; we’re… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Moving beyond mere correlation, if you lesion the amygdala in an animal, rates of aggression decline. The same occurs transiently when you… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this… — Burkhard Bilger Copy Share Image
“Instead, these findings suggest that the amygdala injects implicit distrust and vigilance into social decision making.23 All thanks to learning. In the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“In the Kübler-Ross model, there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The model is supposed to apply… — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Sustained stress has numerous adverse effects. The amygdala becomes overactive and more coupled to pathways of habitual behavior; it is easier to… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The close connection of the central nucleus to elements of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) provides the amygdala with a great deal… — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“The amygdala responds to imaginary information in the same way it responds to a real situation, so anxiety brought about by thoughts… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
“you asked amygdala experts what behavior their favorite brain structure brings to mind, “aggression” wouldn’t top their list. It would be fear… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Powerful support for an amygdaloid role in fear processing comes from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In PTSD sufferers the amygdala is overreactive… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“the brain is hardwired to allow the amygdala to seize control in times of danger. And because of this wiring, it’s difficult… — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“Stick recording electrodes into numerous species’ amygdalaefn9 and see when neurons there have action potentials; this turns out to be when the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
