amygdala 的定义
plural a·myg·da·lae [uh-mig-duh-lee]. /əˈmɪg dəˌli/. Anatomy.
- an almond-shaped part, as a tonsil.
- a ganglion of the limbic system adjoining the temporal lobe of the brain and involved in emotions of fear and aggression.
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- No need to tell us about the role the amygdala or stress hormones play in anxiety, we knew how we were wired.
- This may be because of changes in your amygdala, the main area of your brain responsible for emotions like fear.
- The team found that fear transfer relied on connections from the cortex to part of the amygdala, a region known to respond to fear.
- For example, among a group of study participants who underwent an eight-week mindfulness class, MRIs showed their amygdalae shrank.
- Kate Jeffery, a neuroscientist at University College London, explains that the amygdala—the emotional center of the brain—plays a role in spatial awareness by sending messages like, This is a place where bad things happen.
- Psychopaths lack fear, conscience, and morality—functions critically subserved by the amygdala.
- To answer this question we assessed amygdala functioning in 1,795 3-year-old children using fear conditioning.
- One limbic structure affected by this early maldevelopment is the amygdala, which generates emotions like fear.
- His aorta and amygdala do not receive this information by automatic transfer.
- That suggests that “the amygdala is quite sensitive to the quality of maternal care,” says Lupien.
- It derives its name from the Greek word amygdala, an almond.
- The common English name is from the Latin amandola, corrupted from amygdala.