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BS 209 Luiz Pessoa "The Entangled Brain"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Amygdala: A Critical Part of the Brain

The amygdala is an area of the brain associated with fear and negative emotional processing. It has been shown to be important for economic decision making, social interactions that a primate might have. The range of its functions and its contributions to functions is really astounding. We need to learn more about how these regions work together in multiple contexts.

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