[태그:] Amygdala

Humans share with animals a primitive neural system for processing emotions such as fear and anger. Unlike other animals, humans have the unique ability to control and modulate instinctive emotional reactions through intellectual processes such as reasoning, rationalizing, and labeling our experiences. This study used functional MRI to identify the neural networks underlying this ability. Subjects either matched the affect of one of two faces ...

Summary Fittingly, one of the hottest topics at a recent meeting in New York during a terrorism alert was how fear makes its way through the human brain and guides attention--even without the aid of the conscious mind.   Helmuth, L. (2003). Fear and trembling in the amygdala. Science, 300(5619), 586-569.DOI: 10.1126/science.300.5619.568