Amygdala
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Heightened Emotion and Clear Logical Reasoning Are Mutually Exclusive
“We have to recognize that there's an antagonistic relationship between the amygdala and the frontal lobe. So the more emotional they are, The less clearly they're thinking, the more clearly they're thinking, the less emotional they are. It's an either or propo…”
Olfactory Signals Reach Brain Emotion and Memory Centers Faster Than Other Senses
“Your brain sends neurons out of your skull into the top of your nose, and your brain is literally touching the world when you smell something. And the number of steps it takes for that information to get to your centers of memory and your centers of emotion is…”
Brooks: Reading Online Hostility Triggers Adrenaline Release Within 74 Milliseconds
“So what happens is that you see something, it stimulates your optic nerve, is processed for what you're reading online with the, in the occipital lobe of your brain, sending a signal to your amygdala, which is the fear and anger, part of the limbic system of t…”
Ahmed: More REM sleep dampens amygdala fight-or-flight response
“The interesting thing about REM sleep is researchers were able to find the more REM sleep you get, the less heightened your amygdala response.”
Mochary: Pre-warning recipients of bad news reduces amygdala response
“What I found is, is that the way the amygdala gets triggered is often because of surprise. And so if you give someone just a few seconds to mentally prepare, then the amygdala often doesn't get triggered nearly as hard”
Mochary: Pre-warning difficult news significantly reduces amygdala emotional hijacking
“And what I found is, is that the way the amygdala gets triggered is often because of surprise. And so if you give someone just a few seconds to mentally prepare, then the amygdala often doesn't get triggered nearly as hard because if they're aware that they're…”