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2009 February 12, David Brooks, “The Worst-Case Scenario”, in New York Times:
Cognitive scientists distinguish between normal risk-assessment decisions, which activate the reward-prediction regions of the brain, and decisions made amid extreme uncertainty, which generate activity in the amygdala.
amygdala in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
amygdala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
