The amygdala is an area of your brain responsible for emotional processing, especially fear and anxiety. It also connects emotions to memory and your senses.

Aug 1, 2025 · This structure, the amygdala, is a central component of the limbic system, a network of brain areas involved in emotion and memory. It helps shape how we experience and retain …

Aug 8, 2025 · The amygdala is not just a trigger for immediate emotional reactions; it is also deeply involved in forming emotional memories. This is where its close partnership with the hippocampus …

May 12, 2025 · The amygdala sits in front of the hippocampus and has connections to brain regions involved in sensory perception, emotion, and memory. Its strategic location and connectivity allow it …

There's an additional aspect to the amygdala’s involvement in memory. The amygdala doesn't just modify the strength and emotional content of memories; it also plays a key role in forming new …

These observations led to the modulation account of amygdala function, which postulates that amygdala activation enhances memory consolidation by facilitating neural plasticity and information storage …

May 26, 2025 · The amygdala, a small almond-shaped structure located in the temporal lobe, plays a crucial role in processing emotions and influencing memory formation, storage, and retrieval.

May 1, 2023 · This paper reviews evidence indicating that the basolateral amygdala (BLA) mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple mechanisms.

Nov 26, 1996 · Our findings suggest that the amygdala regulates the storage or consolidation of information in other brain regions (16). The central hypothesis guiding our research is that emotional …

Jun 13, 2022 · The extent to which amygdala activation is involved in emotional episodic memory, whether during encoding or retrieval, relies, first of all, on its reliable activation across emotional …