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“even a small amount of ambiguity triggers increased activity in the amygdalae—two deep brain structures that play a major role in our response to…

— David DiSalvo

“The role of the amygdala is to attach emotional significance to situations or objects and to form emotional memories.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“The amygdala responds to imaginary information in the same way it responds to a real situation, so anxiety brought about by thoughts and images…

— Matt Lewis

Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in…

— Peter Diamandis

“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

The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“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

“As the level of ambiguity increases, amygdalae activity continues to increase, and ventral striatum activity continues to decrease.”

— David DiSalvo

“Chapter 3 discusses some unsettling research—stick your average person in a brain scanner, and show him a picture of someone of another race for…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

— Catherine M. Pittman