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Amygdala Volume

Marker Cns

The size of the threat detector on MRI. Long-term users had a larger right amygdala than non-using weightlifters, alongside weaker functional coupling between it and the regions that are supposed to regulate it.

Relationships

2 connections

Amygdala Volume increases risk of

Aggression

Hostility and short fuse. Reported consistently by users and in case series, and produced in blinded trials mainly at supraphysiological doses and mainly in a minority of people.

Amygdala Volume stimulates

Amygdala

The threat detector. Dense in androgen receptors, and the structure most implicated in the anger, vigilance and fear side of what these compounds do. Splitting it out of the limbic system matters because threat processing and reward processing sit in the same blob otherwise, and compounds pull them in opposite directions.

Beyond this page

Amygdala Volume also connects to 1 entry in the applied modules, covering supplements, compounds, hormones and food sources. Those carry the mechanism and the evidence tier behind each link, and they are part of client coaching.

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