Hey amygdala, what’s wrong with a nice vignette that…

“The amygdala can accomplish its quick response because of the special properties of another nucleus within it: the central nucleus.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“Our problem-scanning machine (amygdala) and our serenity-now mood tape (prefrontal cortex) are at war.”

— Neil Pasricha

“Powerful support for an amygdaloid role in fear processing comes from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In PTSD sufferers the amygdala is overreactive to mildly…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Logically, when the amygdala wants to mobilize a behavior—say, fleeing—it talks to the frontal cortex, seeking its executive approval. But if sufficiently aroused, the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The quick reaction that results from the amygdala pathway is typically called the fight-or-flight response.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“The “Intense World” paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload, then certain…

— Temple Grandin

“Vipassan meditation is the best way to unlearn old habits of basal ganglia and amygdala, and strengthen the neocortex of the brain.”

— Amit Ray

“The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go, dragging them…

— Jon Ronson

“During sustained stress, the amygdala processes emotional sensory information more rapidly and less accurately, dominates hippocampal function, and disrupts frontocortical function; we’re more fearful,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The lateral nucleus is the part of the amygdala that receives incoming messages from the senses.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“Moving beyond mere correlation, if you lesion the amygdala in an animal, rates of aggression decline. The same occurs transiently when you temporarily silence…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The close connection of the central nucleus to elements of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) provides the amygdala with a great deal of influence…

— Catherine M. Pittman

“It can be proven that wounded people wound others. Walk circumspectly among wounded people, their injuries are deeply submerged in their brain's amygdala, and…

— Tracey Bond

“the brain is hardwired to allow the amygdala to seize control in times of danger. And because of this wiring, it’s difficult to directly…

— Catherine M. Pittman

“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems…

— Burkhard Bilger