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Amygdala - ✔✔controls anxiety/fear/worry - anxiety d/o, phobias, PTSD, result
from malfunctions w/n these circuits. Flight or fight - motor response - PAG
(periaqueductal gray) located in brain stem
Locus Coeruleus - ✔✔Home of noradrenergic cell bodies
Autonomic response
Inc BP, Inc HR, Inc RR,
- Prolonged activation = inc risk of atherosclerosis, MI, CAD, Stroke,
fear amygdala. - ✔✔Motor response = brain stem(periaqueductal gray) - fight or
flight
Endocrine response = hypothalamus
Fear conditioning - ✔✔associate feat with neutral stimulus
VMPFC and hippocampus info passes to amygdala
Amygdala can remember stimuli w/ glutamate transmission
Glutamate - ✔✔inhibitory stimuli
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