by Chris Black
This condition is associated with decreased threat-detection abilities and increased anxiety.
I bet this doesn’t surprise you.
“across the spectrum of anxiety disorders, as well as in other disorders that are often comorbid with anxiety, a relatively consistent pattern of reduced amygdala volume has been found”
Sources:
Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults (2011)
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/)
Impaired threat prioritisation after selective bilateral amygdala lesions (2015)
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4317193/)
Amygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxiety (2022)
(www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301051122000473)
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