Amygdala | Definition, Function & Location

The role of the brain in anxiety & overwhelm The amygdala are a pair of small, almond-shaped clusters of nuclei near the base of your brain. The function of the amygdala is that it assesses the emotional significance of things that happen in your environment, and in particular it assesses whether or not something in your environment is a threat to you. It the amygdala decides that a car speeding towards you on the street is in danger of hitting you it will initiate your body’s fight or flight re

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Amygdala | Structure, Damage & Role in Emotion

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