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More Amygdala Quotes

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• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting… — Scott Stossel
• It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness… — Unknown Author
• 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… — Daniel Goleman
• The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and… — Jodi Picoult
• How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each… — Jonah Lehrer
• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my… — Scott Stossel
• The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. — Jim Yong Kim
• Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that… — Peter Diamandis
• Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information… — Peter Diamandis

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