The Amygdala and Fear Conditioning
In this video, Dr. Kushner explores the various functions of the amygdala. Don't let it's small size fool you. This almond-shaped structure is vital to our survival, helping us detect threats in the world and triggering a fear response within the body. 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️
Digital notes for students and teachers: www.etsy.com/listing/14725605...
✅Timestamps:
00:00 Amygdala
02:22 What is the Limbic System?
03:11 How Does Lesioning Help Explain the Function of the Amygdala?
05:30 How Does the Amygdala Detect Threats?
09:45 How Does the Amygdala Trigger Our Fight-or-Flight Response?
15:19 Fear Conditioning (Classical Conditioning)
18:32 Positive Emotions
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after two years of study at university, finaly I got the function Amygdala.
@vickikurniawan3870
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah me too 7 years of study just now know the function. I'm major in accounting by the way
@norazilawati7175
Жыл бұрын
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@Hartleymolly
Жыл бұрын
I’m a bored stay at home mom 😂
@mrandmrsragdoll6397
8 ай бұрын
So where are the memories from the fear conditioning stored? And how can we change this to treat PTSD?
@stellaancimer8505
6 ай бұрын
@@mrandmrsragdoll6397 are you medicated? For me pills and keto way of eating change alot, and i am more functional. All the best
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.
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.
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
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.
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Just finished watching. It was SOO helpful. I love this visual style of learning and his pace and amount of examples were PERFECT!
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
@yeshuman668
2 жыл бұрын
fear and aggression
@kewkew6386
Жыл бұрын
So the amygdala is not the center of pro social emotions such as empathy compassion an guilt ?
@gratefulkm
Жыл бұрын
1 yr old and already totally wrong about everything
@kewkew6386
Жыл бұрын
@@gratefulkm you talk to me ? if so i was asking a general question not related to the video itself
@kewkew6386
Жыл бұрын
@@gratefulkm and what does it have to do with the age of the video since I just saw her
Amazing method of teaching! He really knows how to simplify things and keep one engaged throughout
@janelleneal573
Жыл бұрын
yes i actually got through the video and felt happiness
@veebra94
Жыл бұрын
Yes! Totally agree :)
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 ❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
@mayurdongardive614
2 жыл бұрын
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
@squamish4244
8 ай бұрын
Panic attacks...suck...I've had hundreds. Literally countless. They're not fun.
@stellaancimer8505
6 ай бұрын
@@mayurdongardive614 how you program something that is constatly fluid with cortisol, adrenalin..? With nutrition yes*
@squamish4244
5 ай бұрын
@@stellaancimer8505 They're working on high-tech methods of directly targeting the amygdala and even shutting off the troublesome parts of it.
Great video, really clear explenation. Thanks!
This helps a lot , thank you .
This is such a fantastic video and so well explained!!! I'm so glad I found your channel :D
Thank you!🙏
Thank you. This was great and very helpful.
wow I really didnt expect such a good video!
Very simplified yet comprehensive explanation
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 :-)
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for such kinds words 😁
Thank you!
my new fav channel 😭💕 im now struggling in neuro subject and this greatly helps, thank you so much!
Thank you for the great content!
OMG. Thank you! so helpffull
Amazing way of teaching. Thank you so much. Looking forward to more lessons from you 😇😇
I’m so glad I found your channel,looking forward to watch your next video👏🏻
@PsychExplained
9 ай бұрын
Yay! Thank you! Welcome aboard.
Love this video about to watch it again
Thankyou very much sir for such a clear explanation that was truly helpful in my studies and research
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much.
great presentation, very informative many thanks UK
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
Very nice explanation
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
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
This is hands down the best psychology content on youtube, please keep it up king
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind words :)
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.
I enjoyed it and you helped me understand
such a usefull videos! Very well explained ! thanks
Great video! Helping me with a school project :)
Pure gold....and very well explained
@PsychExplained
10 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful. I’ll take silver too 😎
Thank you so much!!
Thank you Professor😊
@marufgazi9025
Жыл бұрын
15:16 💕 ... 02/05 tue💫☺🙂💛🥰💘💝💖💚
the best explanation. simple and so useful
@PsychExplained
7 ай бұрын
Glad it helped 🧠
Oh my gosh, you are not only an adorable human but you make learning so much fun which makes it stick. Thanks for making boring and hard-to-understand anatomy engaging. You are a gifted teacher.
@PsychExplained
5 ай бұрын
Oh thank you!
Excellent summary! Thank you!
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for coming to my channel Trevor!
Finally got the concept of amygdala ✨
@PsychExplained
3 ай бұрын
Great to hear! Are you trying to understand your own fears and strong emotions?
I'm already smashing the like button cuz I'm a visual learner so 1 minute in and I'm excited! LOL
Extremely detailed. Loved it
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for your service.
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching :)
Very well explained.. thanks a lot 🙏🏻
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure 😊
Thanks, the parts of the brain can sound so complicated. You made it easy to digest in a short time.
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
So happy I could help!
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!
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!
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
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 🙏🏽
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
So happy you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
Thank you very very very much Sir
Well explained
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.
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! So glad you found my page :)
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!
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
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) 🧠😎
Thanks! 🤙🏽
a super helpful video! Please make a video on hypothalamus and pituitary gland too, focusing on their functions and role with regulatory functions.
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Niharika! My next video is on the Endocrine System! I will be sure to touch on these two structures.
Good and detail explanation about amygdala
You made it easier to understand. Thanks sir ❤
@PsychExplained
5 ай бұрын
wonderful!
Excellent! Thanks
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Welcome!
Thank you, that was really awesome presentation
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
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
@PsychExplained
5 ай бұрын
Glad it helped! What is your experiment?
amazing video! thank you
Great explanation, well done! I will refer clients to this video.
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I see more and more psychologists/counselors using this video to help their clients 🧠
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!!!!
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind words :)
This kinda explanation is what I was looking for....
Love the way you teach the Psych. The concepts kinda sticks in my neuron
@PsychExplained
5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@humansofmedicine
5 ай бұрын
@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.
@PsychExplained
5 ай бұрын
Gre@@humansofmedicine Great to hear!! This is the only 'good 'type of auditory hallucinations...
Excellent explanation. Well-organized and didactic explanation. Fantastic.
Really good explanation
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it
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.
@PsychExplained
11 ай бұрын
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.
@PSTWFB
10 ай бұрын
what are the 3#stressrelief #hormones?#sideeffects of #anxiety#depression#adrenaline #female#love! kzread.info/dash/bejne/g31rsNCykdjFdJs.html
Great post my Dr kept telling me my amygdala. Now I understan
Loved it !!!!
Sir, plz upload nervous system in detail, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
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
Awesome thanks
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?
So helpful!! Cheers.
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
So glad!
I am studying about the Buddhist's Dhama and it is exactly the same with this scientific knowledge .. Awesome !!!
@metrogenwendy6560
2 жыл бұрын
Do you have a link to the Buddhist information ?
Fight, Flight, or Freeze!
@PsychExplained
6 ай бұрын
Yes!
Wonderful video well explained
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
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!!!!
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Such kinds words! Thank you so much. I love biopsych as well. I am currently finishing up guided notes for all my videos :)
@pragyapriya1768
Жыл бұрын
@@PsychExplained That's wonderful! I would love to keep a collection of those notes as well. Thank you so so much!
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.
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Very kind words! Feel free to check out my other videos on the brain.
Awesome sir
Fantastisch!!! Thanks.
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.
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind words. Keep learning!
Love your post ❤❤❤❤
@PsychExplained
10 ай бұрын
Happy it helped
when the word "PERFECT" is a video this is what you get:
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Too kind :)
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!
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Such kind words :) Happy learning!
Very good 😊
Just imagine how many pages u have to read in a biology textbook just on the horomone mechanism itself
Fascinating 😍😍
Your explanation is quite helpful very organized and simple, appreciated!
There is lateralization of amygdala fuclnction.right amygdala only give negative emotions like aggression while left amygdala gives both positive and negative emotions
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Great point
@mayurdongardive614
2 жыл бұрын
Make a video for hypothalamus soon
Love it thank yoy
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thank you :)😁
very good
Great 👍
Great video!!
@PsychExplained
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the visit
Very cool
This is really cool, which is why the amygdala is associated with anxiety, thanks doc
@PsychExplained
3 жыл бұрын
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 :(
@KhadijaKhadija-zp5jr
3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
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.
I am an art student if i had know early how intersting biology is i would be a doctor now😁😁😁👌👌👌
@PsychExplained
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind words. Can you connect the amygdala to the art world?