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Gray’s data showed that the sensitivity of the amygdala depended, at least in part, on the amount of the neurotransmitter serotonin in that part of the brain. Animals with low serotonin levels were hyperreactive to stressful stimuli (like loud sounds), while higher levels of serotonin dampened their fear system, making them less likely to become ag

Se você aumenta o nível de estresse de uma pessoa, o hormônio liberador da corticotropina (CRH) sobe e faz com que o nível de cortisol suba. Se deprime uma pessoa, os níveis de serotonina descem.

When you diminish your feelings, you diminish your aliveness. Expanding your capacity for intimacy, love, and connection is one of life’s most precious gifts and stimulates neurogenesis, for the brain is wired for emotional relationships. With negative relationships and chronic feelings of stress and depression this capacity shrinks—and so does neu

psychologists and physiologists have debated whether fatigue manifests itself in the brain or in the body.