Outbursts: Where did Their IQ points Go and What were They...(uenorthleadership.com/author.html oncli...),Health

Date:9/28/2009

uenorthleadership.com/author.html" onclick="linkClick( this.href );" target="_blank" title="Dr. Nadler">Dr. Relly Nadler, a psychologist, executive coach and Emotional Intelligence training and tools expert, suggests their logic was suppressed by the powerful tunnel vision survival reaction of the amygdala. No one can make you do something against your better judgment, but the amygdala always can."

Brain Neuroscience: How the Hijack happens. We now know there are two minds one that thinks and one that feels. The research by Joseph Le Doux reported by Goleman, states "...the architecture of the brain gives the amygdala a privileged position as the emotional sentinel, able to hijack the brain." The stimuli comes in from the eyes or ears and goes immediately to thalamus and it then goes right to amygdala before a signal reaches the neocortex. This survival mechanism lets us react to things before the rational brain has time to mull things over. The hair trigger amygdala though can be sloppy and distort things in this quick reaction.

Where did my IQ Go? Any strong emotion, anxiety, anger, joy, or betrayal trips off the amygdala and impairs the prefrontal cortex's working memory. The power of emotions overwhelms rationality. That is why when we are emotionally upset or stressed we can't think straight.

Matthew Lieberman, a neuroscientist has found an inverse relationship between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex, the brain's executive function where rational thought and judgment sit.

When the amygdala is active with blood and oxygen, there is less activation in the prefrontal cortex. Our thinking power is disrupted and there are deficits in our problem solving, because the blood and oxygen are in the amygda
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