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  • The amygdala as a hub in brain networks that support social life 📄
  • by Kevin C. Bickart, Bradford C. Dickerson, Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Publication date: 2014
  • Read: Mar 28, 2021
The amygdala as a hub in brain networks that support social life book cover

This was a fascinating paper to read. Mostly because there were so many things I absolutely didn’t get. And yet from reading How Emotions Are Made there were a bunch of things that I had heard before and that made sense to me. Especially thinking about the brain more as a network structure and less than a set of connected control nodes. And some of the findings wrt how changes in different networks for different aspects of social life contribute to symptoms that manifest in various external behaviors (e.g. being cold/distant to loved ones or being easily fooled by scammers)