amygdala

And they hooked people up to these EEG monitors as they were watching shows to see how the brain was reacting to content.

And so there's a piece of the brain called the amygdala, A-M-Y-G-D-A-L-A.

And that's the part of the brain that lights up when emotion goes off, right? Cool.

And you notice that when a character that you're engaged with, that you have empathy with, cries or laughs or feels something, that part of your brain as a viewer lights

Uh, there's Annie Hopper's Dynamic Neural Retraining program.

There's Ashok Gupta's Amygdala Retraining program.

Amygdala is another word for limbic.

Uh, there's Kathleen King's Primal Trust.

Those are three of my favorites, and there are some others.

Hippocampal function is impacted, also can cause depression.

Amygdala, therian.

Fear processing, this can be on the hyperactive and it basically takes over.

Prefrontal cortex, right? Last part of the brain developed.

I'm your host this evening, Paul Griffin.

We started our trek this evening with The Amygdala by Miriam Clonney off of their album The New Normal.

They say that the project was inspired by Jung's concept of individuation, the process by which a person integrates the unconscious into conscious awareness.

The album reflects that evolution of the self.

So somewhere along the line, I'm going to write a book, Tale of Two Memories.

So there is amygdala.

Amygdala is a part of the memory that remembers emotional memory.

Hippocampus is what remembers regular things, like a regular memory.

So I'll give you an interesting experiment that was done so we know that's true.

That's the key.

Now, why does that happen? Amygdala remembers anxiety and emotion.

Hypercampus remembers something different.

It remembers facts.

Okay, name it to tame it.

So when people put emotions into words, research shows that this reduces the amygdala activity.

Amygdala is like this tiny little like almond shaped bit in the middle of our brain that is responsible for our emotions and our emotional reactivity.

It's this tiny little almond, but man, does it do some big shit.

So it also...

Uh, it acts as the social filter that keeps you acting civilized, right? Uh, the limbic system, this is the primitive drive.

This is the deep, ancient center of your brain, including the amygdala.

Amygdala, whatever.

Am- amygdala.

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Amygdala.

Adadadada.

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Gusa hari ikibazo.

Amygdale yawe ntabwo izi gutandukanya uburemere bw'ibyago bikuziye.

Ntabwo imenya gutandukanya ibyago bije bigusanga.

Nk'ubu ntabwo yamenya gutandukanya niba intare irimo kukwirukankana cyangwa se niba umuntu urimo kukuguza amafaranga ashobora kuza kwambura.