Amygdala Quotes
- To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality… — Scott Stossel
- It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to… — Robin Dunbar
- Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. — Peter Diamandis
- The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight… — Daniel Goleman
- The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an… — Jodi Picoult
- How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his… — Jonah Lehrer
- To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is… — Scott Stossel
- The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. — Jim Yong Kim
- Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and… — Nancy Gibbs
- Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. — Peter Diamandis
- Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the… — Peter Diamandis