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personThe amygdala is an almond-shaped structure in the brain involved in threat detection and fear responses.
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And the amygdala's job, one of its jobs, is to perceive threat and fear and danger.
the amygdala is tiny the size of a pea right in the center of your brain and then there's the hippocampus a larger part right at the top of the brain stem where it meets the spine and this part stores memories and compares current experiences with past experiences
And what this session does is it uses the biological functions of the brain linked to anxiety, things like the limbic system, the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the functions of that to highlight that there is a part within them that is now too sensitive, too cautious.
One famous brain structure called the amygdala is involved, but it's not the only structure.
And so the amygdala and some sense of anxiety or fear is actually built in to the circuits that generate goal-seeking and our motivation to pursue goals.
The amygdala is most often associated with fear.
One of the brain areas is the so-called amygdala.
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