Is amygdala size correlated with stress?

Canbolat M., Erbay M. F., Senol D., Ucar C., Yildiz S.

FOLIA MORPHOLOGICA, cilt.80, sa.3, ss.514-519, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 80 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5603/fm.a2020.0095
  • Dergi Adı: FOLIA MORPHOLOGICA
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, BIOSIS, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.514-519
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: amygdala volume, saliva cortisol, stress, magnetic resonance images, CORTISOL, VOLUME, HIPPOCAMPUS, ASYMMETRY, ANXIETY, BRAIN, TRAIT, STATE, EXAM
  • İnönü Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background: One of the important mechanisms that regulate the stress response of the body is hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. One of the structures activating this axis is amygdala. We have seen people around who react calmer and cooler to very stressful situations. Are people with smaller amygdala really calmer? Or, can we say that the bigger the amygdala, which is the trigger of the body's response to stress, the more a person panics? Aim of the study is to compare the saliva cortisol levels and amygdala volume.