Amygdala

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.

 “Silencing the amygdala abolishes the emotive, hedonic component associated with what you and I would call sweet or bitter”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/30/desire-for-sugar-eliminated-in-mice-by-rewiring-brains