Articles for tag: Amygdala, Frontal Lobe, Neuron

What Part of the Brain Controls Emotions

Life has become stressful for many of us in this competitive world. As life changes, we learn to control emotions and change them according to different situations. How many of us know that brain is the reason for inducing emotions depending on the situation? We will be able to control these emotions only if our ...

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What is Capgras Delusion?

Imagine a family member no longer recognized you as the person you are. Now imagine that family member believes you are a stand-in or an imposter of the real you. An individual who misidentifies a family member or friend may have Capgras delusion. This mental disorder gets its name from the psychiatrist, Joseph Capgras, who ...

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Fear Memories Removed from Brain’s Amygdala

Fear research has important applications to trauma stress syndrome. Consequently, it has important applications to returning Vets, catastrophe victims, accident victims and crime victims, especially victims of childhood abuses. Recent years have seen significant breakthroughs, so much so that it can now be said by science that newly formed fear can be removed from the ...

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The Amygdala and How it Affects Emotions

I was reading a book last week, Culture of Honor by Danny Silk and right in the middle of an emotional description between two people, I saw this word ‘Amygdala’. Since I had no idea what this was and it seemed to be a really important reference in the paragraph, I went to Google and ...