Sentences with phrase «almond shaped structures»

This instantaneous reaction, the classic flight - fight - freeze response, is caused by a pair of almond shaped structures in the brain called the amygdala.

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Deep in your brain lies a small almond - shaped structure called the Amygdala.

Fear, an emotion we have inherited from our ancestors, is not an abstract or intangible sense of imminent danger: it is expressed in neurochemical terms in our amygdala, the almond - shaped structure on the medial temporal lobe, anterior to the hippocampus.

Dulac and her colleagues tracked brain activity in the medial amygdala, an almond - shaped structure that transmits smell signals to the hypothalamus.

For instance, the globus pallidus — dual almond - shaped structures deep in the brain — puts a brake on muscle contractions to keep movements smooth.

Sweatt believes that his findings in the hippocampus apply to other regions involved in memory processing, including the cortex, the brain's outermost layer, and the amygdala, two almond - shaped structures in the midbrain.

Likely so, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who have shown that a small region within the amygdala, an almond - shaped structure in the brains of all mammals, is responsible for producing emotional calls and sounds.

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure at a crossroads in the brain's circuitry: it links the cortex, which is responsible for conscious thought, with regions of the brain that control the body's emotional responses.

A small, almond - shaped structure called the amygdala, located deep within the brain (yellow in image above), plays a key role, but exactly what it responds to is unclear.

This almond - shaped structure behind the ear is Fear Central, the neural processing station that sends out warnings of perceived danger and threat.

The amygdala is a tiny, almond - shaped brain structure that is home to our likes and dislikes.

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure deep in the brain that is believed to be a communications hub between the parts of the brain that process incoming sensory signals and the parts that interpret these signals.

The amygdala (actually we have a pair of them) is an almond - shaped structure that acts as the brain's panic button: it made your caveman ancestors duck when someone swung a club near their heads, and jump back when they stepped near a snake.