{"id":574,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"amygdala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Amygdala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong>Amygdala<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The amygdala allows us to react so rapidly to a danger, that only afterwards do we realize what frightened us. How? It connects events with emotions, and helps arouse survival feelings such as fear, pity, anger, or outrage. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">All messages from the senses go first to the thalamus. From there <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">to the appropriate sensory cortex (visual cortex, auditory cortex, etc.). They assign it a meaning. If the meaning is threatening, the amygdala is informed. It then produces the appropriate emotional responses. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Sometimes, a part of the message received by the thalamus is transferred directly to the amygdala! This shorter route explains the rapid reaction of our natural alarm system.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">However, this fast route provides only a crude discrimination of potentially threatening objects. It is the cortex that provides the confirmation, milliseconds later, if there actually was a danger. Those milliseconds are sometimes fatal. If all is OK, we had a good scare, and that&rsquo;s it. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The two amygdalas (Gr: almond) have an almond shape. They are essential for decoding emotions, particular stimuli that are threatening to the organism, and the <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">ability to feel certain emotions and to perceive them in other people<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Other important events are the presence of food, sexual partners, rivals, children in distress, and so on. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 266px; height: 287px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/amygdala-2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=575\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amygdala The amygdala allows us to react so rapidly to a danger, that only afterwards do we realize what frightened us. How? It connects events with emotions, and helps arouse survival feelings such as fear, pity, anger, or outrage. All messages from the senses go first to the thalamus. 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