Amygdala AO1

Question 1

What is the Amygdala responsible for

Answer 1

Controlling human emotions

Question 2

What can Damage to the Amygdala result in

Answer 2

Damage can result in either a lack of emotion or in excessive emotion as they lack control

Question 3

Do psychopaths have a smaller or larger amygdala

Answer 3

Smaller

Question 4

What researcher found himself to have a psychopath sized Amygdala

Answer 4

Fallon 2006