Amygdala: Center Of All Emotions
Like it or not
Man is an Emotional Animal
All thanks to ones Amygdala
Event To Feeling (Amygdala) To Thinking (Cerebral Cortex)
Amygdala: Quick threat assessment and blocks slow thinking
Amygdala: Generates Emotional Response
Emotional Stimulus To Emotional Response (Amygdala)
Amygdala: Information filter regulated by our emotional state
High Emotions: Cerebral Cortex Disabled
Emotions Cloud Your Judgement
Amygdala+ Hippocampus: Controls emotional responses
Helps your brain store memories
Amygala + Hippocampus (Remembers all good things that you have had)
New Research has shown to Rewire the Amygdala in Mice Models.
Sweet does not taste Sweet anymore (Obesity Research)
Researchers identified two specific regions in the brain which respond to sweet and bitter tastes – and altered those responses
The researchers genetically modified mice so neurons in their amygdala responded to light. That allowed them to use light, via implanted optical fibres, to trigger the “sweet” or “bitter” regions of the amygdala when the mice entered different rooms of a test area, without the animals actually consuming anything.
The upshot was that the mice avoided rooms in which researchers triggered the bitter area of the amygdala, but hung around in the room in which they triggered the sweet area.
That, the team says, showed the “sweet” areas of the amygdala generate a positive experience, and the “bitter” ones a negative experience.
The team also found that if the “sweet” area of the amygdala was triggered with light while the mice drank water – a neutral tasting substance – they guzzled the liquid, but turned their nose up at it if the “bitter” area of the amygdala was triggered.
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