Science Fact: Leftists Have Smaller Amygdalas

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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”

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Sources:

Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults (2011)

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/)

Impaired threat prioritisation after selective bilateral amygdala lesions (2015)

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4317193/)

Amygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxiety (2022)

(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301051122000473)


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