Understanding the extent and nature of pathological gambling, as well as its social and economic impact, requires as clear a definition as possible. My hypothesis, then, is that the feeling of “fear” results when the outcome of these various processes (attention, perception, memory, arousal) coalesce in consciousness and compel one to feel “fear.” This can only happen in a brain that has the cognitive wherewithal have the concept of “me,” or what Endel Tulving has called “autonoetic consciousness.” In a later post, I will elaborate on the autonoetic nature of our conscious feelings. Terms used to describe behaviors in similar contexts or venues have an influence on how those behaviors are defined and viewed. If the stimuli are known sources of danger, “fear” schema are retrieved from memory. The meaning of the environmental stimuli present is added by the retrieval of memories. As a result, attention systems in the neocortex guide the perceptual search the environment for an explanation for the highly aroused state. In situations of danger, these chemicals alert the organism that something important is happening. Here are five ways you can constructively handle a narcissist’s pathological envy and malignant projections after you’ve exited the toxic relationship, on your own: 1. While there’s no doubt this does happen, far too many artists are using this as an excuse to stay out of the online marketplace all together. One important set of outputs result in the secretion of chemicals throughout the brain (norepinephrine, acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin) and body ( hormones such as adrenalin and cortisol). One of the biggest fears that artists have when I ask about them selling their work online is that they are afraid that people are going to steal their work or their ideas. For example, the amygdala outputs driven by threat detection alter information processing in diverse regions of the brain. It is responsible for detecting and responding to threats and only contributes to feelings of fear indirectly. Its role in fear is more fundamental and also more mundane.
The amygdala has a role in fear, but it is not the one that is popularly described.