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.
That is the interaction between two key brain structures, the amygdala, which is important for processing lots of emotional, particularly threatening kinds of situations, but those threatening, surprising kinds of situations, the amygdala takes that information and makes another key structure called the hippocampus work better to put new long-term memories in your brain.
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Uh that is the interaction between two key brain structures. Uh the amygdala which is important for processing uh lots of emotional particularly threatening kinds of situations but uh those threatening surprising kinds of situations. The amigula takes that information and makes another key structure called the hippocampus work better to put new long-term memories in your brain.