Awesome article, fucked up but interesting neurological effect! On
the positive side, such persons would be well qualified for careers as
super-detectives! :)
"If you grow up in an environment in which you don't have all the
support you would need, maybe you become a super-detector of threats."
On the down-side, somewhat subject to stress...
"a larger amygdala might be the equivalent of having not one fire
alarm but many go off at the slightest whiff of smoke."
My friend who's a psychologist by training had a different view: "I
think the actual effect of amygdale size is very small... a person's
education probably has much more to with how well they cope in real
world situations than the size of any particular area of their brain."
Cf. http://gathatoulie.blogspot.com/2011/08/comic-book-psychology.html
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