Professor Newcomb
WRC-1013
20 November 2019
LinkedIn post on brain amygdala
A group of researchers at UTSA are researching a small portion of the brain called the amygdala. They believe that this portion has to do with emotions and can lead to certain conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Alfonso, Alice, Paul, and Hector are researchers at UTSA that are figuring out the causes of these conditions and if it might have to do with the amygdala. They think that since the amygdala plays a role in emotions it could be linked to those conditions.
Alfonso and his team stated how the new advances of labeling neurons was a big help in being able to study an individual neuron that is extending from the amygdala. It was seen that the neuron can have an affect on the output of the amygdala since it has a substance called somatostatin. This substance can control physiological behaviors which leads to fear and aggression. It was concluded that future experiments should be conducted to see if sensory stimuli can have an affect on the amygdala and that it could be the reason for these certain conditions.
https://www.utsa.edu/today/2019/11/story/brain-amygdala.html
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