Amygdala

illnesses include the amygdala, the thalamus, and the hippocampus. The amygdala is located deep in the brain and is associated with one’s emotions. “The amygdala is activated when a person recalls emotionally charged memories” (“What Causes Depression” 2), memories in which spike an increase in neurotransmitters and never settles back down even after the memory is over. The amygdala activity is typically higher when a patient is depressed, and increased activity in the amygdala continues even if…

fear-invoking stimuli. The focus of this article is to establish the connection between the seemingly dysfunctional amygdala of psychopaths and their ability to detect facial emotional expressions (Glass & Newman, 2006).…

The amygdala and hippocampus assume crucial parts in emotions and memory. Located in the brain, the amygdala rests on either side of the thalamus and directly below the hippocampus and dictates some emotion. When damaged, emotions do not work efficiently and the creature will become indifferent to stimuli. Also located in the brain, the hippocampus lies beneath the thalamus and controls the process of changing short-term memory to long-term memory. If damaged this will inhibit the creature from…

In these experiments a clear gender-related lateralization of the amygdala involvement in emotionally influenced memory was shown. Female subjects showed enhanced activity in the left amygdala, whereas male subjects showed activity in the right amygdala after watching the provocative films. Now the amygdala plays a huge role in memory associated with emotional arousal, it therefore is of huge importance in drug addiction. Drugs alter the brain chemistry by either inhibiting or stimulating the…

Aside from the fact that humans differ stress, how is the body affected chemically and hormonally by stress? What is the question? Well what are the biochemical and physical changes this element of everyday life affects that happen to all beings? The amygdala is the control center of stress “how the mind interprets the stress” this emotional control center sends a message if it is indeed a threat to the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus then sends a signal through its neuronal cells to the…

to aggressive and impulsive behaviour in addition to mental disorders, such as psychopathy. The major component that controls emotional regulation is the amygdala. Firstly, the amygdala is responsible for “reward learning, social interaction, and moral emotion and reasoning” and well as fear conditioning. Size reduction or damage to the amygdala leads to impulsive and aggressive behaviour. A study conducted assessed the fear conditioning of 1,795 children, all age three. Researchers then…

Breakthroughs in the way in which we understand the purpose of the amygdala come from identifying peculiarities in behaviour and linking them to areas of the brain where lesions/abnormalities are found. Such is the case when examining Patient S.M. and her diminished exhibition of fear (Adolphs, 1997 & Feinstein et al., 2011). When breaking fear down into it’s simplest physiological properties we can identify it as an increase in heart rate, breathing rate and skin conductance response (Globisch…

Varying Degrees of Adolescents with Major Depression and Their Effect on Amygdala Activation Tony Yang and others’ study, “Adolescents with Major Depression Demonstrate Increased Amygdala Activation,” is an influential study of developmental psychology because of the insight it brought onto the relationship of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or Dysthymia and the activation of the amygdala in adolescents (Yang et al. 2010). Major Depressive Disorder is defined as a two week interval with sad…

Step one: practice and test on your emotional thoughts by being positive, unbiased and control amygdala. Observe on how you react to topics like religion and politics, if there is an emotional judgement or outburst then your study isn’t unbiased. Amygdala is part of the reaction system in the brain that stimulate negative experience that causes judgement and commence problems on others. Step two: looking at things differently will gain new insights, solution and a new side of the story. It can…

Harnessing My Amygdala Infuriated, outraged, furious, we have all felt these emotions before. Beginning with small situations like hitting every red light when your running late to work, to more complex of conditions like getting your brand new car’s rear fender smashed in by a moron who has his life in reverse and still doesn’t look in the mirror. Ironically, both of those examples are memories that I 've experienced. I myself experience anger on a daily basis. Some say I have a short temper.…