The Amygdala in 5 Minutes

The neuroscientist gives a short primer on the brain's emotional processor.

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[Gen Med]

Would we be better with an amygdela

[Jake K.]

You commentary has no scientific backup!

Do you know why drugs act in our brain?

Because there are chemical regulations. There many different neurotransmitters which docks at specific receptors on the neurons.

And if this regulations are disturbt, it will come to accordingly disorders.

Of course there are also many other reasons for psychotic diseases.

But chemical reasons can be one cause.

[Jim Freemon]

Although I disagree with a Pav-stimulus as an all-out defense response. This is saying that behavior (somewhat) cannot be adjusted. The brain has plasticity and can be changed from age twenty to twenty-five. Pavlov's tests were not congruent with human tests. Neurons (species to other species) are quite different, in essence.

[Jim Freemon]

Very informative.

[Jim Freemon]

Not always. Soldiers have been known to go without food for more than two weeks and still able to reason. Also there have been those suffering from food shortage for twenty+ days and able to respond to stimuli at even high-levels.

Depends upon the individual, I think.

Peace.

[Satanismypal666]

You need amino acids for neurotransmitter synthesis.

[bankruptLucifer]

eh? Doesn't one need nutrition to synthesis the chemicals required for day to day physical and mental functioning?