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  • noun Plural form of amygdala.

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Examples

  • Two deep brain structures called the amygdalae manage the important task of learning and remembering what you should be afraid of.

    Sad Brain, Happy Brain 2008

  • The brain regions called amygdalae are perpetually on guard for danger.

    Reactivity and Reconciliation 2007

  • The brain regions called amygdalae are perpetually on guard ...

    Arlene Goldbard » 2007 » October 2007

  • Some brain sections are associated with feelings such as anger and rage (in which structures called the amygdalae, deep in the stem, light up); but when it comes to less potent cultural cues, the story is blurred.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Some brain sections are associated with feelings such as anger and rage (in which structures called the amygdalae, deep in the stem, light up); but when it comes to less potent cultural cues, the story is blurred.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Internal Dem memo faults party message'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'memo is sharply critical of Republican policies but also suggests a neurological explanation for Republican message success: By using emotional appeals and warning of dire threats, Republicans can trigger neurons called "amygdalae" in the temporal lobe, which is the seat of the "fight or flight" response in the brain.'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Internal Dem memo faults party message 2007

  • Rate It memo is sharply critical of Republican policies but also suggests a neurological explanation for Republican message success: By using emotional appeals and warning of dire threats, Republicans can trigger neurons called 'amygdalae' in the temporal lobe, which is the seat of the 'fight or flight' response in the brain.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Internal Dem memo faults party message 2007

  • Brain scans of people with IED found that when they were shown pictures of angry faces, their amygdalae, the primitive, emotional part of the brain, lit up with activity, but not the frontal cortex, which normally exercises impulse control.

    When Anger Is An Illness Melinda Beck 2010

  • Brain scans of people with IED found that when they were shown pictures of angry faces, their amygdalae, the primitive, emotional part of the brain, lit up with activity, but not the frontal cortex, which normally exercises impulse control.

    When Anger Is An Illness Melinda Beck 2010

  • Brain scans of people with IED found that when they were shown pictures of angry faces, their amygdalae, the primitive, emotional part of the brain, lit up with activity, but not the frontal cortex, which normally exercises impulse control.

    When Anger Is An Illness Melinda Beck 2010

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