The Amygdala

The temporal lobe is located on the bottom section of the brain. This lobe is

1. “So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly take.” (Lee 222)”

High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are both stories involving a main character who is being hunted. The main characters, Will Kane and Sanger Rainsford, both face similar challenges within the stories. Both intense stories take place around the time of World War II. High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game share similar characters, but they include different themes and take place in a different setting.

The primary purpose of the article was to discuss how stress affects the brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex. According to Watson and Breedlove, there are changes evident in the amygdala if they suffer from recurrent panic attacks. The article specifically stated the role of amygdala when the prefrontal cortex shut down, introducing an entirely new perspective to the role of the amygdala in the brain when the brain is stressed. The article suggests that the amygdala takes over when the prefrontal cortex shut down due to stress, while the textbook simply provides a cursory explanation that explains the correlation between panic attacks and the amygdala. Moreover, the article specifically describes the role of the pyramidal cells in the brain, ultimately contributing to the overarching theme of the article.

The thalamus is similar to a doctor that diagnoses, or identifies, a patient's disease or sickness. It diagnoses different sensory information that is being transmitted to the brain including auditory (relating to hearing or sound), visual, tactile (relating to touch), and gustatory (relating to taste) signals. After that, it directs the sensory information to the different parts and lobes of the cortex. If this part of the brain is damaged, all sensory information would not be processed and sensory confusion would result.

Some professionals think that a common characteristic of many serial killers is schizophrenia, but the most common diagnosis among serial killers is Antisocial Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is another psychological diagnosis of some killers. One thing everyone agrees on, though, is the shortage of empathy possessed by a serial killer. It has been noted that in the amygdala of a psychopath, stress often gets stuck in the high, off-the-charts range.

When a person develops PTSD, the amygdala has stored the sights, sounds, and smells associated with the event. If one or more of these stimuli are encountered, the amygdala will trigger a danger signal and prepare the body. The amygdala is believed to have a primary role in hypervigilance, which can be protective when a person is in a potentially dangerous situation. However, for those with PTSD, this can be counterproductive, since the amygdala remains overactive and interferes with sleep or being able to lets one’s guard down in a safe situation.

23.The part of the limbic system located in the center of the brain, this structure relays sensory information from the lower part of the brain to the proper areas of the cortex and PROCESSES some sensory information before sending it to its proper area and is called the thalamus.

The two brain structures that are most frequently linked to human emotion are the amygdalas and the medial portions of the prefrontal lobes (Pinel, 2014). The amygdalas are only one section of the limbic system, it is the “almond-shaped nucleus in the anterior temporal lobe” (Pinel, 2014, pg. 70). The amygdalas have been researched more than any other section of the limbic system. The amygdalas are most commonly associated with the emotion of fear, however research is showing that the amygdalas actually play a role in “evaluating the emotional significance of situations”, whether the emotions being felt are positive or negative (Pinel, 2014, pg. 436). Even though research has shown the amygdalas play a larger role with emotions, brain imaging

The adult brain is described as the brain to think by feeling. We are feeling machines that think. Hardships that effect the brain can be post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and stroke. The brain reacts in different ways, especially in the adult brain. When the brain encounters a stroke, it cannot process emotions because there are no neurons functioning. Generally, when the brain encounters an emotional event, the amygdala is the first brain structure to respond. The role of the amygdala and the brain stem when responding to an emotional event is working together to get a response through the body. The nerve impulse travels from the amygdala down the brain stem; without each other, the body would not function right. Although

Fear is an emotional response that is instinctive when faced with something, or someone that is perceived to be dangerous, or a possible threat to one’s well-being. This is something that everyone experiences on their own level. Everyone’s own interpretation of what they’re afraid of is different based on what they’ve seen or heard. Something that a certain individual’s fear might just be something that another individual might roll his or her eyes over.

Hughes & Baylin (2012) place importance on a parent being able to read their children’s expression and non verbal cues in order to stay close to their children and to experience parenting as rewarding. “The parenting child -reading system is fundamental to the process of attuning to a child’s inner states, to creating the kind of intersubjective, mind to mind communication” (Hughes & Baylin, 2012, p. 71). The amygdala plays a central role in this parenting system by supporting the parent to make a quick perception of the child’s communication as either positive or negative. If the amygdala detects a threat, the parents defence system is set off and could suppress parental curiosity and reflection and promote a defensive reaction to the child which the child then has to respond to.

Thalamus is a part of brain located in the middle of the central core that acts primarily to relay an information incoming and outgoing about the sense (hearing,sight,smell,taste and touch).Information from the eyes,ears and skin travel to the thalamus to be communicated upward to higher parts of the brain.It also integrates information from higher parts of the brain,sorting it out so that it can be sent to the cerebellum and medulla. The relays sensory impulses from receptors of body part to the cerebral cortex then travels from the body towards thalamus that receive information and passed onto the cerebral cortex for interpretation. In addition, the thalamus acts as a “gate”, filtering the information for processing. It is important

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major declares “‘And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span. For myself I do not grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. To that horror we all must come--cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the dogs have no better fate. You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the

According to our textbook, “In humans, the amygdala (from the Greek word for “almond”) is an almond shaped cluster of interconnected structures perched above the brainstem, near the limbic ring.” (Goleman, D. p.14) The amygdala starts to work quickly after we hear or look at something. When we look at something, our eyes send a message to the thalamus and a translation that only our complex human mind could understand takes place. Our visual cortex then receives a majority of that initial message as it begins to work out its level of significance. If the message is related to an emotion such as fear, the amygdala gets notified, and our emotional center becomes activated. But no matter what, an emotional reaction has already taken place before