{"id":2454,"date":"2015-08-14T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:39:20","slug":"the-amygdala-is-not-the-brains-fear-center-psychology-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/the-amygdala-is-not-the-brains-fear-center-psychology-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amygdala Is NOT the Brain&#8217;s Fear Center | Psychology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/i-got-mind-tell-you\/201508\/the-amygdala-is-not-the-brains-fear-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Joseph-LeDoux1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The idea that the amygdala is the home of fear in the brain is just that\u2014an idea. It is not a scientific finding but instead a conclusion based on an interpretation of a finding. So what is the finding, what is the interpretation, and how did the interpretation come about?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/i-got-mind-tell-you\/201508\/the-amygdala-is-not-the-brains-fear-center\">The Amygdala Is NOT the Brain&#8217;s Fear Center | Psychology Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Joseph LeDoux, Phd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that the amygdala is the home of fear in the brain is just that\u2014an idea. It is not a scientific finding but instead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14],"tags":[40,79,197,269,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}