Amygdala

The amygdala controls a person’s mental and emotional state. The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped piece of the brain that is associated with a person’s happiness to depression to even whether they are autistic or not. It is located in the temporal lobe, a few inches from either ear. The amygdala also plays an important role in the formation and storage of memories. It also plays a big role in anxiety and panic attacks, phobias, and obsessions. In the same way Pavlov’s dogs were conditioned to salivate on hearing a bell, the amygdala reacts to ‘fear conditioning’ in the same way.
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