An almond-shaped part of your brain called the amygdala makes a snap judgment ... Another section of your brain called the thalamus catches it. It then sends out signals of its own through ...

The mediodorsal thalamus in turn communicates with the basolateral amygdala, a brain area that controls fear expression and stores fear memory.

Statistical analyses of the baseline evaluations were applied cross-sectionally to determine the relationship between fight exposure variables and volumes of the hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, ...