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The 35 pages that link to Amygdala, each with the reason it gives.

• Post-traumatic stress disorderRelated: Heightened threat responses in PTSD are associated with altered amygdala activity.

• AnxietyRelated: Threat-related activity can heighten vigilance and bodily responses during anxiety.

• Specific phobiaRelated: Its threat-learning circuits contribute to conditioned fear responses.

• Anxiety disorderRelated: Threat-related learning and responses involve amygdala circuits, alongside broader brain networks.

• FearRelated: It helps detect and learn signals associated with danger.

• HabituationRelated: Its circuits help regulate defensive responses that can diminish with safe exposure.

• Fear conditioningRelated: Amygdala circuits help associate sensory cues with aversive outcomes.

• Stress responseRelated: Its threat processing can initiate and shape stress-related brain and body activity.

• Fight-or-flight responseRelated: Threat appraisal involving the amygdala can help initiate the response.

• AngerRelated: Threat-related signals can recruit the amygdala during anger, though it does not act as an anger center.

• StressRelated: It helps detect potential danger and recruit bodily stress responses.

• AggressionRelated: Threat processing in the amygdala can contribute to defensive aggression.

• Antisocial personality disorderRelated: Research examines amygdala function in fear learning and emotional processing relevant to antisocial traits.

• Fear extinctionRelated: Amygdala circuits help acquire and express conditioned fear, and change during extinction.

• PhobiaRelated: It helps detect threat cues and coordinate fear responses.

• PsychopathyRelated: Research examines its role in fear learning and recognition of distress cues.

• HypervigilanceRelated: Its threat-related responses can contribute to heightened vigilance.

• DerealizationRelated: Studies of depersonalization-derealization have examined altered responses in emotion-processing circuits, including the amygdala.

• Eye contactRelated: It responds to direct gaze and helps assign social and emotional significance to it.

• NecrophobiaRelated: Threat processing involving the amygdala contributes to bodily fear responses.

• AilurophobiaRelated: Its threat-processing networks contribute to fear responses, though phobia is not located in one brain structure.

• OphidiophobiaRelated: Threat processing involving the amygdala can contribute to rapid fear responses to snake cues.

• ThalassophobiaRelated: Threat responses to deep water can recruit the amygdala’s fear-processing circuits.

• CoulrophobiaRelated: Threat-learning circuits contribute to the rapid alarm response that clown cues may provoke.

• Urbach–Wiethe diseaseRelated: Calcification can affect the amygdala in some people with the disease.

• AichmophobiaRelated: Threat processing involving the amygdala contributes to fear responses.

• Fear of beesRelated: Threat circuits involving the amygdala can contribute to rapid alarm at bee-related cues.

• GynophobiaRelated: Threat processing can produce rapid fear responses to perceived cues.