Check your understanding: Stimulation of the amygdala causes intense emotion, such as A. Empathy and compassion B. Sadness and helplessness C. Fear and aggression D. Pleasure
saya pernah alami amygdala hijack... saya sakit ..last sy potong kaki paras peha.... kputusn tu bukn khendak sy tapi kehendak bnda mnguasai tubuh sy... sy terperangkap dlm siri yg hnya mampu mnjerit² x nk potong...
Dr. Kushner, I shared your lecture with my patient as an introduction to why we are training parasympathetic responses as well as using CBT to identify what possible experiences have trained his fear reactions I like research about positive emotions as a function. That is why we can neutralize the fear with a positive thought. Love the intense emotions lecture. I'll use it too help patients understand and know that they can cope.
Hi Jacqueline, I'm so happy you shared my lecture on the amygdala with your patient. I find more and more mental health professionals using these kinds of videos with their patients to showcase how the mind and body work.
My psychiatrist told me that the pain attacks and fear... I'm having are all because of this named the amygdala and you just made me understand what's really happens when I'm having a panic attack or a fear of something. Words can't be enough to describe how thankful i am. Keep up the good work thanks for making this complicated terms make sense and helping us know more about our bodies and how do they function ❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
Memsaab it is complicated.but yes mostly it is amygdala but you can program it.you can even remove amygdala if your problem is out of control.in Famous experiment they removed they removed amygdala of monkeys
Use SSRI (escitalopalm) in morning for atleast one month and you will soon notice your all anxiety and panic would fade away and keep one tablet of benzodizepine (Alprazolam or clonazepalm) take it whenever you feel the symptoms of panic
I have just recently concluded through self analysis and reading and watching/studying YT channels about the brain that I am "seeing, feeling and adopting" more positivity after a life time of negativity and skeptism. I never thought it possible that I would ever see the light.THANK YOU dude for the pathway and confirmation.
You’re a great teacher, Dr. Kushner! I used to tutor anxious nursing and occasionally early pre-med students in A&P, so have a good understanding of and appreciation for your skills. This is truly one of your callings :-)
You are SUPERB! Thank you so much for this! Really help me a lot. After spending many years in medical college I get better understanding by your lecture only. You are trully amazing! ❤ God Bless!
So I have just watched a ted talk about self doubt and unconsciousness and in that, the speaker briefly mentions the Amygdala, I had barely heard of this but it sounded interesting so I poorly spelled the word into a google search bar and came across this video and I would just like to say, despite having no understanding of the terminology and the brain on a scientific level, I understood all of this because of your presentation and explanations and this was a very enjoyable video that makes me want to learn so much more about the brain etc, so thank you.
I JUST CAME ACROSS YOUR CHANNEL TODAY AND NOW I AM GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS ONE AT A TIME. Just finished amugdala, took down notes too! I have been very weak at biopsych right from the start and I wish I had a teacher like you back then! Would have fallen in love with Biopsych. I AM PRACTICALLY IN LOVE RIGHT NOW. You explain the concepts so adorably and you make them simple, easy to understand. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AND WHATEVER IT WAS THAT LED ME TO FINDING YOUR CHANNEL. I know I am a bit too excited about this but I WISH I COULD EXPLAIN!!!!
Love you're teaching skills; really digestible. I was just breaking down the process of whether the brain reacts first to our environment or the system/organ that's eventually effected. You broke it down perfectly!
Thank you for the kind words! Love that phrase “really digestible”. This is the core of every video I make :) Thinking about how we respond to the environment is such a great topic. If you want to research something cool look up “reflex arc”. Our reflexes (like touching a hot stove) is controlled by our spinal cord - our brain is not aware we have touched something hot (or stepped on something sharp) until AFTER we remove our finger (foot) 🧠😎
i don't know why they aren't teaching things like this in schools, its so interesting to see the break down and make it understanding for everyone. Some who has battle the F O F most of my life this is so eye opening . Thanks
Yesss! let's talk about it and the spider webs of people who consistently create fight or flight scenarios..to death. Thank you for being a person of reason.
Thank you very much for creating these videos. They are extremely helpful for someone just starting out on their quest to the understanding of the human mind. Keep up the good work SIR!
Excellent job. Easy to understand & very likable instructor. Thanks for being straightforward..wasn't a wasted moment in video& I'm clear on something that has confused me for decades; appreciated indeed by me.
My first vid of this channel. Outstanding this explanation. I ended up here after watching a coach slapping his judoka in the face before she got to the mat at the 2021 Olympic Games. So I asked myself: WTF did he do that for? Apparently this was a “defractionation” process of the “fight or flight” responses (trances) that the amygdala automatically provides to that Judoka. The coach basically interrupted that whole process and brought his pupil back to earth (‘the now’). Your vid is very detailed and still very clear even to me as a layman. Good job.
hey this videio really helped me in understanding how to do my school work on this specfic topic. it helped me understand how we actuslly think and realize how we respond to certain things in life, thank u very much!!!!
I very much appreciate this video, I’m doing a fear conditioning experiment for my science fair and needed at least a basic understanding of how these interesting amygdala do thank you
Very well done and highly informative! Just sent this clip to tons of friends and family. Great job on explaining this part of the brain and it's relation to fear, emotion, and human body response. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the clear explanation as I’m going through understanding the limbic system and the cascade of fear response. Love your clear and simple explanation 🙏🏽
@PsychExplained I really did well in my exam. Thanks to you. Your voice was echoing in my mind. Just like Delusion of someone talking to me from you tube in code words and conveying me a message. I had auditory hallucinations which worked magic. I can safely say I was not psychotic though.
There is lateralization of amygdala fuclnction.right amygdala only give negative emotions like aggression while left amygdala gives both positive and negative emotions
I wish you had been my neuroanatomy teacher. I have always had a hard time with abstract information (maths, physics, anatomy) and i really need to visualize, make tangible links and create stories to understand. You do that so well!
Hi sir..thank you very much for providing us information in a very fun and easy way..i want you to make more videos on topics such as- pons, medulla, tegmentum,and tectum. Thank you very much for your efforts.
the presence of brain structures like the amygdala highlights the complexity of decision-making processes but does not conclusively prove or disprove the existence of free will.
Great video! Wondering if you can break down where the inner critic's voice comes from, with regard to those who cultivated it as a coping mechanism raised in childhood CPTSD? ...And, how potentially reparenting ourselves can alter/change the inner voice (true self) to a loving, nurturing, protective resource as we also exercise EMDR/Ego therapy to heal our trigger/flashback responses, etc. BTW- I'm a Gen-X'r, that was raised by a marine father("Great Santini" type). I'm guessing our Patriarchy culture structure has maybe a tendency molded a lot of us in a way that ...in order to get noticed by parents as children, we had to learn to set the behavior bar higher than our care givers expectation, in order to get noticed. I'm also a semiconductor factory technician that struggles with social interaction! I'm mostly a thinker, reflective type and notice a trend of more tech's getting hired as thinkers as well. Your videos are a great supplement to my therapy routine for helping me be okay in my own skin... having thicker skin, while improving self care, compassion and just more mindful in the moment and less reactive to Limbic 4F response... new goal: develop strategies to increase proactive relational/socialQ's of curiosity behavior response, empathy, emotional regulation, nervous system integration!
16:53 not only a car, but possibly also f.ex. a smell you experienced during the event, maybe a flash of a scenery, if it was sunny etc. The smell can be enough to trigger a fear-response. 18:44 I also thought about the pattern of returning to harmful relationships (or any harmful thing). Your brain may have learned to associate a certain kind of circumstances as "safe" even though they are not. They are just enterpreted as safe, because they have become familiar since the early childhood and feel "good" on a very deep emotional level, even though you may intellectually understand they are not good. Just speculating and saying that also as a question. I guess we all know that pattern of behavior exists, but is it connected to the function of amygdala?
You are spot on with the brain making associations - smells, sounds, sights, etc. The brain evolved to make these kind of connections. Advantageous for survival :)
Thanks for watching! Some of us have an "overactive" amygdala (not your fault!) which makes it difficult to control our emotions/fears/anxieties. Because the amygdala is one of the oldest parts of the brain, it is often more powerful than the logical, rational side of our brain :(
@@PsychExplained that exactly what my doctor told me last week. My amygdala is way too reactive to the extent that I sometimes be laugh or busy doing something till the panic attack or my fear of death hits👍❤
I always thought this was the emotional center of the brain, but I did not realize how new some of the research about positive emotions were. So is there actually an emotional center of the brain? Thanks for your videos again they are the only reason I am passing my class right now.
Thank you! When researchers talk about the "emotional center" of the brain they are usually referring to the entire LIMBIC SYSTEM. This includes the amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus, etc.
Does anyone know if the amygdala and hypothalamus sit atop the brain stem? I ask because I had a brain stem stroke, went entirely right brained, damaged CN 8 thru 11, and only later realized that my endocrine system was also broken. Maybe it was the hypothalamic stem that died and all the rest followed? Not sure. . . I've come a long way in the 25 yrs since the stroke but still have issues and mostly have had to figure this all out for myself. Try that after you've had your brain fried! Just joking. Lucky to be alive regardless. Thanks Dr. Kushner, I'm not a psych student but after all my self-study I find you very easy to follow plus you are charming, and appreciate your doing this.
So happy you are recovering ❤️🩹. I recommend to research “brain plasticity” to learn about how your brain heals itself. FYI, the amygdala and hypothalamus are NOT located atop the brain stem. The amygdala is located within the temporal lobe and the hypothalamus is located right above the brain stem (in the diencephalon)
Thanks for the explanation and suggestions! Guess you know how fortunate I am to be this functional, and I appreciate your kind words. And not in any way meant as a promo, but only in interest of others understanding the psychology of this, I wrote a book about what it was like to have such a stroke, followed by being right-brained, and then how I recovered to the point that I was at as of time of publishing. It's called "one with the One" using my pen name of Emily Jean Entwistle. I wrote it to encourage those who have faced tough challenges like that which I faced, plus being sort of an explorer's journey through the wilderness, if you will.
What happens when there is the flight or flight response when there is nothing physical to create it. Not even a memory. But, I can see and hear in sync, unexplained, but it can't be called a hallucination. Hallucination is either sight or sound. But, professor, what do we call when the unexplained has sight, and sound? My professor and I were trying to figure it out. A few years back I was living in a home that had unexplained events. We tried to debunk it, she even came over the old, domesticile to disprove. Ms. Collins had to experience this in person. Plus, a neighbor committed suicide within 6 months. There was other strange occurrences before my parents bought the property. She was very professional. She returned with a couple of other students to try to debunk that property. I sold it. Too many projects that I couldn't fix. The address was in La Jolla, CA. People couldn't understand why I didn't choose to live there😮. My youngest son was relieved. He told me of things I thought were tricks of the mortal eyes. But, when we hear and see. That means both hemispheres are communicating. And, they are in sync. What is this, Phenomenon?
amazing so beautifully explained. Dr Kushner .. You rock sir. Superb. Loved it though I am not a physician or Dr but you explained so simple and its very connecting indeed . Thanks a lot . Regards Sanjeev
Great question! Memories aren’t really “stored” in a specific area. They are retrieved from a vast network of connections across the cortex. The amygdala plays a big role in these type of emotional memories, so when you think about trauma the amygdala is going to fire!
I have one question: you mentioned during the cascade the action potential travels from the pituitary gland to the sympathetic nervous system and then to the Adrenalin glands. Does that mean that the release of our stress Hormons will be triggered by the sympathetic nervous system docking at the Adrenalin glands? Also, I am assuming the action potential travels to the brain stem first (where the sympathetic nervous system starts). Would it travel there coming from the pituitary gland? And at what time comes the prefrontal cortex in to understand what happens? Means at what time during the cascade does the action potential travel from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex and back? Just trying to understand the holistic picture. Thank you :-)
Great question. In my opinion, it's hard to articulate the "order of events" because everything that happens in the mind-body occurs so fast...almost simultaneously. BUT, if I was to lay out the order: 1. Amygdala detects a threat in the environment. 2. Signal sent to prefrontal cortex to determine how to respond (“Should I be alarmed?”) 3. Amygdala simultaneously communicates with the hypothalamus/endocrine system AND sympathetic nervous system to trigger fight-or-flight. 4. Hypothalamus communicates with the pituitary gland to send signals to the body to release stress hormones (cortisol, norepinephrine). In turn, receives input from the body.
Wow. You are such a great teacher. Thank you ❤
Check your understanding: Stimulation of the amygdala causes intense emotion, such as
A. Empathy and compassion
B. Sadness and helplessness
C. Fear and aggression
D. Pleasure
fear and aggression
So the amygdala is not the center of pro social emotions such as empathy compassion an guilt ?
1 yr old and already totally wrong about everything
@@gratefulkm you talk to me ? if so i was asking a general question not related to the video itself
@@gratefulkm and what does it have to do with the age of the video since I just saw her
after two years of study at university, finaly I got the function Amygdala.
Yeah me too 7 years of study just now know the function. I'm major in accounting by the way
saya pernah alami amygdala hijack... saya sakit ..last sy potong kaki paras peha.... kputusn tu bukn khendak sy tapi kehendak bnda mnguasai tubuh sy... sy terperangkap dlm siri yg hnya mampu mnjerit² x nk potong...
I’m a bored stay at home mom 😂
So where are the memories from the fear conditioning stored? And how can we change this to treat PTSD?
@@mrandmrsragdoll6397 are you medicated? For me pills and keto way of eating change alot, and i am more functional. All the best
Dr. Kushner, I shared your lecture with my patient as an introduction to why we are training parasympathetic responses as well as using CBT to identify what possible experiences have trained his fear reactions I like research about positive emotions as a function. That is why we can neutralize the fear with a positive thought. Love the intense emotions lecture. I'll use it too help patients understand and know that they can cope.
Hi Jacqueline, I'm so happy you shared my lecture on the amygdala with your patient. I find more and more mental health professionals using these kinds of videos with their patients to showcase how the mind and body work.
My psychiatrist told me that the pain attacks and fear... I'm having are all because of this named the amygdala and you just made me understand what's really happens when I'm having a panic attack or a fear of something. Words can't be enough to describe how thankful i am. Keep up the good work thanks for making this complicated terms make sense and helping us know more about our bodies and how do they function ❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
Memsaab it is complicated.but yes mostly it is amygdala but you can program it.you can even remove amygdala if your problem is out of control.in Famous experiment they removed they removed amygdala of monkeys
Panic attacks...suck...I've had hundreds. Literally countless. They're not fun.
@@mayurdongardive614 how you program something that is constatly fluid with cortisol, adrenalin..? With nutrition yes*
@@stellaancimer8505 They're working on high-tech methods of directly targeting the amygdala and even shutting off the troublesome parts of it.
Use SSRI (escitalopalm) in morning for atleast one month and you will soon notice your all anxiety and panic would fade away and keep one tablet of benzodizepine (Alprazolam or clonazepalm) take it whenever you feel the symptoms of panic
I have just recently concluded through self analysis and reading and watching/studying YT channels about the brain that I am "seeing, feeling and adopting" more positivity after a life time of negativity and skeptism. I never thought it possible that I would ever see the light.THANK YOU dude for the pathway and confirmation.
Amazing method of teaching! He really knows how to simplify things and keep one engaged throughout
yes i actually got through the video and felt happiness
Yes! Totally agree :)
Just finished watching. It was SOO helpful. I love this visual style of learning and his pace and amount of examples were PERFECT!
You’re a great teacher, Dr. Kushner! I used to tutor anxious nursing and occasionally early pre-med students in A&P, so have a good understanding of and appreciation for your skills. This is truly one of your callings :-)
Thank you for such kinds words 😁
This is hands down the best psychology content on youtube, please keep it up king
Thank you for the kind words :)
You are SUPERB! Thank you so much for this! Really help me a lot. After spending many years in medical college I get better understanding by your lecture only. You are trully amazing! ❤ God Bless!
So happy 😀
So I have just watched a ted talk about self doubt and unconsciousness and in that, the speaker briefly mentions the Amygdala, I had barely heard of this but it sounded interesting so I poorly spelled the word into a google search bar and came across this video and I would just like to say, despite having no understanding of the terminology and the brain on a scientific level, I understood all of this because of your presentation and explanations and this was a very enjoyable video that makes me want to learn so much more about the brain etc, so thank you.
Very kind words! Feel free to check out my other videos on the brain.
I JUST CAME ACROSS YOUR CHANNEL TODAY AND NOW I AM GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS ONE AT A TIME. Just finished amugdala, took down notes too! I have been very weak at biopsych right from the start and I wish I had a teacher like you back then! Would have fallen in love with Biopsych. I AM PRACTICALLY IN LOVE RIGHT NOW. You explain the concepts so adorably and you make them simple, easy to understand. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AND WHATEVER IT WAS THAT LED ME TO FINDING YOUR CHANNEL. I know I am a bit too excited about this but I WISH I COULD EXPLAIN!!!!
Such kinds words! Thank you so much. I love biopsych as well. I am currently finishing up guided notes for all my videos :)
@@PsychExplained That's wonderful! I would love to keep a collection of those notes as well. Thank you so so much!
Love you're teaching skills; really digestible. I was just breaking down the process of whether the brain reacts first to our environment or the system/organ that's eventually effected. You broke it down perfectly!
Thank you for the kind words! Love that phrase “really digestible”. This is the core of every video I make :)
Thinking about how we respond to the environment is such a great topic. If you want to research something cool look up “reflex arc”. Our reflexes (like touching a hot stove) is controlled by our spinal cord - our brain is not aware we have touched something hot (or stepped on something sharp) until AFTER we remove our finger (foot) 🧠😎
i don't know why they aren't teaching things like this in schools, its so interesting to see the break down and make it understanding for everyone. Some who has battle the F O F most of my life this is so eye opening . Thanks
Thank you for the kind words 😀
im blown away. i had a hard time trying to learn this thru my texts but i understood it so quickly w you, ty so much
You're very welcome!
I am studying about the Buddhist's Dhama and it is exactly the same with this scientific knowledge .. Awesome !!!
Do you have a link to the Buddhist information ?
Thanks for the Great explanation, keep it up 👏🏻✨✨
You're welcome 😊
I'm from Sri Lanka,And I'm a Psychological Counsellor, So Your Knowledge help me to understand bio psychology.❤❤❤❤
Yesss! let's talk about it and the spider webs of people who consistently create fight or flight scenarios..to death. Thank you for being a person of reason.
Thank you very much for creating these videos. They are extremely helpful for someone just starting out on their quest to the understanding of the human mind. Keep up the good work SIR!
Great video. Thank u alot. These concepts will help me for my upcoming test and more importantly for my clinical career. Thank u once again
my new fav channel 😭💕 im now struggling in neuro subject and this greatly helps, thank you so much!
Excellent job. Easy to understand & very likable instructor. Thanks for being straightforward..wasn't a wasted moment in video& I'm clear on something that has confused me for decades; appreciated indeed by me.
Thank you! So glad you found my page :)
Very simplified yet comprehensive explanation
Thankyou very much sir for such a clear explanation that was truly helpful in my studies and research
My first vid of this channel. Outstanding this explanation. I ended up here after watching a coach slapping his judoka in the face before she got to the mat at the 2021 Olympic Games. So I asked myself: WTF did he do that for? Apparently this was a “defractionation” process of the “fight or flight” responses (trances) that the amygdala automatically provides to that Judoka. The coach basically interrupted that whole process and brought his pupil back to earth (‘the now’). Your vid is very detailed and still very clear even to me as a layman. Good job.
Thank you for the kind words. Keep learning!
hey this videio really helped me in understanding how to do my school work on this specfic topic. it helped me understand how we actuslly think and realize how we respond to certain things in life, thank u very much!!!!
Thank you for the kind words :)
You have no clue how much you helped me. This stuff right here, is pure gold! Keep up! Thank you 🫶🏻
Glad to hear it!
I’m so glad I found your channel,looking forward to watch your next video👏🏻
Yay! Thank you! Welcome aboard.
I very much appreciate this video, I’m doing a fear conditioning experiment for my science fair and needed at least a basic understanding of how these interesting amygdala do thank you
You can do it!
Very well done and highly informative! Just sent this clip to tons of friends and family. Great job on explaining this part of the brain and it's relation to fear, emotion, and human body response. Thank you!
Great to hear! I hope you friends and family don’t suffer from arachnophobia 🕷️
Thank you so much for the clear explanation as I’m going through understanding the limbic system and the cascade of fear response. Love your clear and simple explanation 🙏🏽
So happy you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
Thank you Professor😊
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Thank you for your service.
Thank you for watching :)
im treating a anxiety disorder and this is so interesting
Thank you. Great and clear explanations.
Love the way you teach the Psych. The concepts kinda sticks in my neuron
😂😂😂
@PsychExplained I really did well in my exam. Thanks to you. Your voice was echoing in my mind. Just like Delusion of someone talking to me from you tube in code words and conveying me a message. I had auditory hallucinations which worked magic. I can safely say I was not psychotic though.
Gre@@humansofmedicine Great to hear!! This is the only 'good 'type of auditory hallucinations...
wow I really didnt expect such a good video!
Excellent explanation. Well-organized and didactic explanation. Fantastic.
Great video! Helping me with a school project :)
There is lateralization of amygdala fuclnction.right amygdala only give negative emotions like aggression while left amygdala gives both positive and negative emotions
Great point
Make a video for hypothalamus soon
This is such a fantastic video and so well explained!!! I'm so glad I found your channel :D
Thank you! Amazing content Dr. K!
You’re welcome 😇
the best explanation. simple and so useful
Glad it helped 🧠
Can you talk more about how our bodies response.and processing information speed will increased.that make us feel like time is stoped for us?
I wish you had been my neuroanatomy teacher. I have always had a hard time with abstract information (maths, physics, anatomy) and i really need to visualize, make tangible links and create stories to understand. You do that so well!
Such kind words :)
Happy learning!
I am an art student if i had know early how intersting biology is i would be a doctor now😁😁😁👌👌👌
Thank you for the kind words. Can you connect the amygdala to the art world?
Love this video about to watch it again
You made it easier to understand. Thanks sir ❤
wonderful!
Wow that was impressive, thank you, everything fell into place now
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm already smashing the like button cuz I'm a visual learner so 1 minute in and I'm excited! LOL
Very wonderful and fearful is nervous system. Glory to the Creator!
Great post my Dr kept telling me my amygdala. Now I understan
Thanks, the parts of the brain can sound so complicated. You made it easy to digest in a short time.
So happy I could help!
Pure gold....and very well explained
Glad it was helpful. I’ll take silver too 😎
great presentation, very informative many thanks UK
Amazing way of teaching. Thank you so much. Looking forward to more lessons from you 😇😇
Thank you for this very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it
a super helpful video! Please make a video on hypothalamus and pituitary gland too, focusing on their functions and role with regulatory functions.
Thanks for watching Niharika! My next video is on the Endocrine System! I will be sure to touch on these two structures.
Great video, really clear explenation. Thanks!
Very nice explanation
Hi sir..thank you very much for providing us information in a very fun and easy way..i want you to make more videos on topics such as- pons, medulla, tegmentum,and tectum. Thank you very much for your efforts.
Thank you for the kind words! Unfortunately I am not touching on these topics right now. However, I am posting a video on the Limbic System next week.
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And all these parts of the brain are more sensitive with PTSD... I hope medical science can help eradicate this one-day
Finally got the concept of amygdala ✨
Great to hear! Are you trying to understand your own fears and strong emotions?
Great video. So you could say that the Amygdala is proof that we have no free will, or that the Amygdala is our free will?
the presence of brain structures like the amygdala highlights the complexity of decision-making processes but does not conclusively prove or disprove the existence of free will.
Sir, plz upload nervous system in detail, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
such a usefull videos! Very well explained ! thanks
OMG. Thank you! so helpffull
Great explanation, well done! I will refer clients to this video.
Thank you! I see more and more psychologists/counselors using this video to help their clients 🧠
Excellent summary! Thank you!
Thanks for coming to my channel Trevor!
Thank you! Very clear now.
Great video!
Wondering if you can break down where the inner critic's voice comes from, with regard to those who cultivated it as a coping mechanism raised in childhood CPTSD?
...And, how potentially reparenting ourselves can alter/change the inner voice (true self) to a loving, nurturing, protective resource as we also exercise EMDR/Ego therapy to heal our trigger/flashback responses, etc.
BTW- I'm a Gen-X'r, that was raised by a marine father("Great Santini" type). I'm guessing our Patriarchy culture structure has maybe a tendency molded a lot of us in a way that ...in order to get noticed by parents as children, we had to learn to set the behavior bar higher than our care givers expectation, in order to get noticed.
I'm also a semiconductor factory technician that struggles with social interaction! I'm mostly a thinker, reflective type and notice a trend of more tech's getting hired as thinkers as well.
Your videos are a great supplement to my therapy routine for helping me be okay in my own skin... having thicker skin, while improving self care, compassion and just more mindful in the moment and less reactive to Limbic 4F response... new goal: develop strategies to increase proactive relational/socialQ's of curiosity behavior response, empathy, emotional regulation, nervous system integration!
Thank you. This was great and very helpful.
16:53 not only a car, but possibly also f.ex. a smell you experienced during the event, maybe a flash of a scenery, if it was sunny etc. The smell can be enough to trigger a fear-response. 18:44 I also thought about the pattern of returning to harmful relationships (or any harmful thing). Your brain may have learned to associate a certain kind of circumstances as "safe" even though they are not. They are just enterpreted as safe, because they have become familiar since the early childhood and feel "good" on a very deep emotional level, even though you may intellectually understand they are not good. Just speculating and saying that also as a question. I guess we all know that pattern of behavior exists, but is it connected to the function of amygdala?
You are spot on with the brain making associations - smells, sounds, sights, etc. The brain evolved to make these kind of connections. Advantageous for survival :)
This is really cool, which is why the amygdala is associated with anxiety, thanks doc
Thanks for watching! Some of us have an "overactive" amygdala (not your fault!) which makes it difficult to control our emotions/fears/anxieties. Because the amygdala is one of the oldest parts of the brain, it is often more powerful than the logical, rational side of our brain :(
@@PsychExplained that exactly what my doctor told me last week. My amygdala is way too reactive to the extent that I sometimes be laugh or busy doing something till the panic attack or my fear of death hits👍❤
Thank you very very very much Sir
Thank you so much!
Very well explained.. thanks a lot 🙏🏻
My pleasure 😊
Good and detail explanation about amygdala
Thank you for the great content!
I enjoyed it and you helped me understand
You mentioned flight and fight what about freeze?
You’re absolutely right. Freeze is often considered the third F in our body’s reaction to danger. E.g. your mind goes blank during a stressful moment
Thank you, that was really awesome presentation
Thank you for watching!
Really good explanation
So glad you enjoyed it
This helps a lot , thank you .
Thank you so much.
I always thought this was the emotional center of the brain, but I did not realize how new some of the research about positive emotions were. So is there actually an emotional center of the brain? Thanks for your videos again they are the only reason I am passing my class right now.
Thank you! When researchers talk about the "emotional center" of the brain they are usually referring to the entire LIMBIC SYSTEM. This includes the amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus, etc.
Thanks a lot for your vid
Does anyone know if the amygdala and hypothalamus sit atop the brain stem? I ask because I had a brain stem stroke, went entirely right brained, damaged CN 8 thru 11, and only later realized that my endocrine system was also broken. Maybe it was the hypothalamic stem that died and all the rest followed? Not sure. . . I've come a long way in the 25 yrs since the stroke but still have issues and mostly have had to figure this all out for myself. Try that after you've had your brain fried! Just joking. Lucky to be alive regardless. Thanks Dr. Kushner, I'm not a psych student but after all my self-study I find you very easy to follow plus you are charming, and appreciate your doing this.
So happy you are recovering ❤️🩹. I recommend to research “brain plasticity” to learn about how your brain heals itself. FYI, the amygdala and hypothalamus are NOT located atop the brain stem. The amygdala is located within the temporal lobe and the hypothalamus is located right above the brain stem (in the diencephalon)
Thanks for the explanation and suggestions! Guess you know how fortunate I am to be this functional, and I appreciate your kind words. And not in any way meant as a promo, but only in interest of others understanding the psychology of this, I wrote a book about what it was like to have such a stroke, followed by being right-brained, and then how I recovered to the point that I was at as of time of publishing. It's called "one with the One" using my pen name of Emily Jean Entwistle. I wrote it to encourage those who have faced tough challenges like that which I faced, plus being sort of an explorer's journey through the wilderness, if you will.
BTW, I read the Doidge book when it came out re brain elasticity. Is there a new champion in that field or is his work still the gold standard?
Extremely detailed. Loved it
Glad you liked it!
What happens when there is the flight or flight response when there is nothing physical to create it. Not even a memory. But, I can see and hear in sync, unexplained, but it can't be called a hallucination. Hallucination is either sight or sound. But, professor, what do we call when the unexplained has sight, and sound? My professor and I were trying to figure it out. A few years back I was living in a home that had unexplained events. We tried to debunk it, she even came over the old, domesticile to disprove. Ms. Collins had to experience this in person. Plus, a neighbor committed suicide within 6 months. There was other strange occurrences before my parents bought the property. She was very professional. She returned with a couple of other students to try to debunk that property. I sold it. Too many projects that I couldn't fix. The address was in La Jolla, CA. People couldn't understand why I didn't choose to live there😮. My youngest son was relieved. He told me of things I thought were tricks of the mortal eyes. But, when we hear and see. That means both hemispheres are communicating. And, they are in sync. What is this, Phenomenon?
Wonderful video well explained
Thank you for watching!
amazing so beautifully explained. Dr Kushner .. You rock sir. Superb. Loved it though I am not a physician or Dr but you explained so simple and its very connecting indeed . Thanks a lot . Regards Sanjeev
So helpful!! Cheers.
So glad!
Well explained
So where is the emotional memory from the fear conditioning stored? And how can we change this to treat PTSD?
Great question! Memories aren’t really “stored” in a specific area. They are retrieved from a vast network of connections across the cortex. The amygdala plays a big role in these type of emotional memories, so when you think about trauma the amygdala is going to fire!
I have one question: you mentioned during the cascade the action potential travels from the pituitary gland to the sympathetic nervous system and then to the Adrenalin glands. Does that mean that the release of our stress Hormons will be triggered by the sympathetic nervous system docking at the Adrenalin glands? Also, I am assuming the action potential travels to the brain stem first (where the sympathetic nervous system starts). Would it travel there coming from the pituitary gland? And at what time comes the prefrontal cortex in to understand what happens? Means at what time during the cascade does the action potential travel from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex and back? Just trying to understand the holistic picture. Thank you :-)
Great question. In my opinion, it's hard to articulate the "order of events" because everything that happens in the mind-body occurs so fast...almost simultaneously. BUT, if I was to lay out the order:
1. Amygdala detects a threat in the environment.
2. Signal sent to prefrontal cortex to determine how to respond (“Should I be alarmed?”)
3. Amygdala simultaneously communicates with the hypothalamus/endocrine system AND sympathetic nervous system to trigger fight-or-flight.
4. Hypothalamus communicates with the pituitary gland to send signals to the body to release stress hormones (cortisol, norepinephrine). In turn, receives input from the body.
Excellent! Thanks
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Fight, Flight, or Freeze!
Yes!