The amygdala is involved in assigning importance to stimuli but not in producing autonomic arousal.

“they are important for assigning importance but they're not important for producing the actual autonomic arousal that we associate with Panic or fear the reason I say this is there's a famous case study patient SM who have has bilateral damage to her amyd and um in you know no responses to emotional faces no responses to fearful stimuli um but if you if capable of having the Panic response due to low to to Suffocation associated with with Suffocation and so there's still the ability to produce that panic and arousal response um it's just not the cognitive evaluation of it I think that's what we think the amydala is doing is assigning that”