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Bookmark or Share- The Amygdala: Your Brain’s Fear Response Center - WebMDFear and stress are closely associated with a tiny, almond-shaped part of your brain: the amygdala. Learn more about how the amygdala influences your emotions and plays an important part in the...
- What Happens in the Brain When We Feel Fear | SmithsonianFear reaction starts in the brain and spreads through the body to make adjustments for the best defense, or flight reaction. The fear response starts in a region of the brain called the amygdala.
- Amygdala Activity, Fear, and Anxiety: Modulation by StressFearful stimuli including fearful faces, fear inducing images, and fear conditioned cues, have been found to activate amygdala in several brain imaging studies using positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) [3 – 5].
- The human amygdala and the induction and experience of fearAlthough clinical observations suggest that humans with amygdala damage have abnormal fear reactions and a reduced experience of fear [1–3], these impressions have not been systematically investigated. To address this gap, we conducted a new study ...
- A fast pathway for fear in human amygdala | Nature NeuroscienceAmygdala fearful face responses are faster than in fusiform cortex, supporting a phylogenetically old, subcortical pathway to human amygdala.
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