The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And the net effect of the amygdala in this context is to take whatever patterns of neural activity preceded that increase in adrenaline and corticosterone and strengthen those synapses that were involved in that neural activity. So the amygdala doesn't have knowledge. It's not a thinking area. It's a correlation detector.
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So the neurons in the amygdala are exquisitely good at figuring out, right, they don't have their own mind but at detecting correlations between sensory events in the environment that trigger the release of adrenaline and what's going on in the brain.