Sentences with phrase «right amygdala»

Further, strong negative associations were found between areas of prefrontal cortex and right amygdala responses in participants high in mindfulness but not in participants low in mindfulness.

Each amygdala receives sensory information from the frontal cortex, and children with an overly active right frontal cortex may be stimulating the right amygdala more than the left, invoking the fear response.

Specifically, males on average had larger volumes and higher tissue densities in the left amygdala, hippocampus, insular cortex, putamen; higher densities in the right VI lobe of the cerebellum and in the left claustrum; and larger volumes in the bilateral anterior parahippocampal gyri, posterior cingulate gyri, precuneus, temporal poles, and cerebellum, areas in the left posterior and anterior cingulate gyri, and in the right amygdala, hippocampus, and putamen.

Previous research has suggested the right amygdala controls fear and aversion to unpleasant experiences.

Whole - brain regression analyses revealed that more advanced pubertal status, specifically signs associated with adrenarche (i.e. pubic hair and body odor), were associated with increased activity (i.e. less deactivation) to rejection above and beyond the effects of age in the right amygdala / parahippocampal gyrus (Figure 4a) and the left amygdala / parahippocampal gyrus, as well as the caudate extending into the sgACC (P < 0.001, 22 voxels contiguity).