“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
“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
“how acute stress strengthens connectivity between the frontal cortex and motoric areas, while weakening frontal-hippocampal connections; the result is decision making that… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Second depressing finding: subliminal signaling of race also affects the fusiform face area, the cortical region that specializes in facial recognition.11 Damaging… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“anxiety can be produced from two different areas of the brain; the cortex, which produces anxiety based on what we think about,… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
“stress weakens frontal connections with the hippocampus—essential for incorporating the new information that should prompt shifting to a new strategy—while strengthening frontal… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
The human race is just getting started… The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Approaches to treating anxiety that target the cortex pathway are numerous and typically focus on cognitions, the psychological term for the mental… — Catherine M. Pittman 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
“Most broadly, the PFC chooses between conflicting options—Coke or Pepsi; blurting out what you really think or restraining yourself; pulling the trigger… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“This coping skill is essentially a protective reaction against threats to the ego. Neuropsychologists have identified the ventral anterior cingulate cortex and… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“But it turned out that this “unlearning” was not as complete as the scientists first thought. When they severed the neural connections… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
If you had the perception that you are very stressed out then your grey matter was fully 20 per cent smaller in… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“This brings up a key concept, namely the inverted U. The complete absence of stress is aversively boring. Moderate, transient stress is… — 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
“Moreover, sustained stress and glucocorticoid exposure enhance LTP and suppress LTD in the amygdala, boosting fear conditioning, and suppress LTP in the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Experiements that have been devised to inflict even mild social pain (like exclusion form a group task or betrayal by a partner… — David J. Linden 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
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“So if whites see a black face shown at a subliminal speed, the amygdala activates.10 But if the face is shown long… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I was talking to my friend who's a psychologist, who says a woman's frontal cortex isn't fully developed till 25 and a… — Reese Witherspoon 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
“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 existence of different memory systems explains why you can experience anxiety in a situation without any conscious memory (or understanding) of… — Catherine M. Pittman 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
“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
“LeDoux and others have shown how auditory information about the tone stimulates BLA neurons. At first, activation of those neurons is irrelevant… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
“We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function—working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“someone’s hand being poked with a needle, and subjects have an “isomorphic sensorimotor” response—hands tense in empathy. Among both whites and blacks,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“in adults the anterior cingulate cortex activates when they see someone hurt. Ditto for the amygdala and insula, especially in instances of… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
“study the brain behavior of subjects presented with both positive and negative imagery. She found that for young people, their amygdala (a… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Glutamate signaling works in a fancier way that is essential to learning.2 To simplify considerably, while dendritic spines typically contain only one… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
