Quotes About The Amygdala

#1. The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Daniel Goleman

#2. It is noteworthy, however, that this areas also contains neurons which when stimulated can trigger female sexual posturing (Benson, 1988; Rose, 1990); i.e. the lordosis (or "doggie") position. These latter neurons are interconnected with the amygdala and ventromedial hypothalamus--nuclei

R. Joseph

#3. The workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

#4. The amygdala, along with related areas ... , plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.

Daniel J. Siegel

#5. Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

Nancy Gibbs

#6. Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

Peter Diamandis

#7. Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

Peter Diamandis

#8. The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

Sam Kean

#9. A gaze to stop still, wonder at the shimmering depths.
A memory near the amygdala stored, an unforgettable tune,
Such an image did it impress, your sweet nostalgic scents.

Selina A. Mahmood

#10. The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

#11. Fear ... " I uncrossed her arms and linked my fingers with hers. "Is what makes us feel alive. Fear causes our blood vessels to constrict, and then the amygdala, a tiny almond shaped part of our brain, sends signals to our nervous system. The signal says run or fight.

Rachel Van Dyken

#12. Amazingly, neuroscientists have even found that people who use Botox, which prevents them from making angry faces, seem to be less anger-prone than those who don't, because the very act of frowning triggers the amygdala to process negative emotions.

Susan Cain

#13. The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

Sam Kean

#14. Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation.

Elizabeth Thornton

#15. Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Peter Diamandis

#16. In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news - and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying.

John J. Ratey

#17. The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

Sam Kean

#18. The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go, dragging them out for as long as is operationally necessary, that, said Sid, is the aim of the Bucha effect.

Jon Ronson

#19. I don't know what to do now... 'Cause everything I've done, I don't think that was ever enough.

Abhijit Haldar

#20. I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

Richard Dawkins

#21. To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

Scott Stossel

#22. (Researchers at the University of Iowa have for years been studying a woman, known in the literature as S.M., whose amygdala was destroyed by a rare disease - and who cannot, as a consequence, experience fear.)

Scott Stossel

#23. I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

Troy Perry

#24. Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#25. But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

Susan Cain

#26. My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gale Gordon

#27. Hey amygdala, what's wrong with a nice vignette that features me enjoying a warm day on a Florida beach

Rick Gatzby

#28. I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me.

Reginald Farrer

#29. I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

Steven Tyler

#30. The people who reach the end of their days must leave others to live out the end of their days without them.
It is very, very difficult to be the one who has to stay behind and live without them.

Fredrik Backman

#31. early stress increases the size of the amygdalae. One study found that an eight-week program of mindfulness meditation reduced the volume of the right basolateral amygdala, and these changes were correlated with a subjective decrease in stress.

Sam Harris

#32. Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.

Tom Stoppard

#33. It's the worst kind of person who goes back on a promise, even one they made to themselves.

Claire Fuller

#34. Kris was in black running shorts and a tight gray T-shirt constructed from some sort of magical material that clung to his muscles and triggered a gush of epinephrine while her amygdala attempted to reconcile two conflicting signals from her prefrontal cortex: attraction and revenge. "All

Sarah Strohmeyer

#35. It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. [WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? NO, YOU MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO MY AMYGDALA. I'M IN CHARGE HERE. NOW TAKE ME BACK TO DR. GODWIN] Damn

R.N. Wright

#37. I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.

Kavita Kane

#38. What's this all about?" Anne asked as I closed the door, pressing my ear up against it. "Can you hear anything?" I asked. They both put their ears to the door, too, waiting to see if something intelligible came through.

Kiera Cass