• Question: How do we develop fears?

    Asked by jodiebowey23 to Suzi on 16 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by kshergold12.
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      Suzi Gage answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Hi @jodiebowey23 and @kshergold12
      Great question!
      There’s a lot of research going on in to how we develop fears, but as far as I can tell an agreement hasn’t been reached. There’s an area in the brain called the amygdala, and this is related to fear – people who have a very active amygdala tend to be more anxious than those whose amygdala is less active.

      Sorry I can’t fully answer your question, but I hope this helps. I really like the word ‘amygdala’, I think it’s really cool!!! A lot of parts of the brain have really good names (hippocampus, cerebellum, corpus callosum etc)

      🙂

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