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2. Amygdala hijack - Wikipedia

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   An amygdala hijack is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat. [1] The term, coined by Daniel Goleman in his 1996 book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ , [ 2 ] is used by affective neuroscientists ...

3. Raised by a Jekyll and Hyde Parent? Here’s How to ... - AOL

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   More often than not, children of Jekyll and Hyde parents develop symptoms of hypervigilance, a condition that occurs from an overactive amygdala (i.e., the part of the brain that senses danger ...

4. Fear processing in the brain - Wikipedia

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   Researchers have found that fear is established unconsciously and that the amygdala is involved with fear conditioning. By understanding how fear is developed within individuals, it may be possible to treat human mental disorders such as anxiety, phobia, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

5. Fear-potentiated startle - Wikipedia

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   Fear-potentiated startle (FPS) is a reflexive physiological reaction to a presented stimulus, and is an indicator of the fear reaction in an organism. The FPS response can be elicited in the face of any threatening stimulus (e.g., any object, person or situation that would cause someone to experience feelings of fear), but it can also be elicited by a neutral stimulus as a result of fear ...

6. Panic attack - Wikipedia

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   The amygdala - the fear response system in our brain thought to be involved in the origin of panic attacks When panic attacks occur, people experience the sudden onset of fear and anxiety in the setting of no actual perceived threat (ex. your mind believes there is something threatening your wellbeing, but there is nothing actual life ...

7. Specific phobia - Wikipedia

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   Treatment may be more successful at reducing symptoms in people with low trait anxiety, high motivation, and high self-efficacy entering exposure therapy. In addition, high cortisol levels, high heart rate variation, evoking disgust, avoiding relaxation, focusing on cognitive changes, context variation, sleep, and memory-enhancing drugs can ...