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• In a person who is also exposed to prolonged stress it will impair the long-term potentials (LTP) in the hippocampus and will smooth the progress of the LTP in the amygdala. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• Amygdala explains why you might want to care about dysprosium, terbium, and neodymium. Discourse.net: I'll Have Mine Rare
• We also observed that fear conditioning enhances local field potential activity within the basolateral amygdala. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• In addition to revealing the amygdala as an important chemosensor, the new results also give a molecular explanation for how rising carbon dioxide concentrations elicit intense fear and provide a foundation for dissecting the bases of anxiety and panic disorders, the researchers say. Health News from Medical News Today
• The contribution of both the amygdala and ASIC1a to fear behavior led them to suspect that a reduced pH might induce fear behavior by activating the channels, thereby allowing the amygdala to function as a chemosensor deep within the fear circuit. Health News from Medical News Today
• The amygdala and cerebellum were not activated during processing of emotional facial expressions.
• One study found that the amygdala is smaller in subjects with family histories of alcoholism, suggesting that inherited differences in brain structure may affect risk. Gladwell: cultural norms affect drinking! | Dr Vino's wine blog
• It receives inputs from the hippocampus, amygdala, cingulate gyrus, temporal cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex.
• The MRI scans were used to quantify total volume of the cerebrum, lateral ventricles, hippocampus and amygdala.
• The action of the amygdala in the limbic system functions as an alarm system, eliciting responses to cues in the present as if they were the original danger.