Meet Your Brain: The Hippocampus
The Hippocampus is a part of the emotional processing centre of the brain (the Limbic system). Hippocampus literally means ‘Sea Horse’ in classical Greek and it is so called because it looks quite uncannily like a sea horse. It has widely spread links to lots of other networks which make it a a really important centre for storing and retrieving conscious memories. The Hippocampus allows you to remember all those facts and figures you learnt at school, where you keep [...]
Meet Your Brain: The Amygdala
The amygdala is a really important part of your brain’s emotional processing centre (Limbic system). You have one buried deep in each hemisphere of your brain and they are about the size and shape of an almond (Amygdalon- is Latin for almond). It is often thought of as a ‘threat detector’ or a panic button in the brain although its role is really much broader than that. Like all parts of your brain the amygdala is always on. It is [...]