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When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux calls the pathway to the amygdala “the low road,” which is extremely fast, and that to the frontal cortex the “high road,” which takes several milliseconds longer in the midst of an overwhelmingly threatening experience.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Social Psychology
riots/tribal terror/mob Foulkes
resonance Jordan/ Rothman/Nicolelis-True Creator of Everything CPL
reverie Bion/Ogden
outsight DeMare/Schlapoberdky
equivalence Hopper
The amygdala can prompt an instantaneous survival response.
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
It constantly scans our environment for cues: Should I be careful here? Is this a dangerous situation? Is this person a friend or foe? Am I properly hydrated and fed to deal with any threats? The autonomic system uses something called neuroception – a ‘sixth sense’ that operates outside our conscious awareness – to assess our environment and put pe
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David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
These findings undermine the idea that the amygdala contains the circuit for fear. They point instead to the idea that the brain must have multiple ways of creating fear, and therefore the emotion category “Fear” cannot be necessarily localized to a specific region. Scientists have studied other emotion categories in lesion patients besides fear, a
... See moreLisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
