Understanding the Role and Size of Amygdala in the Brain

[biferi]

I was on google asking what the Size is for the Amygdala and how big it is.

I can not findout anything just what it is for and what it does.

Can anyone tell me if it is about the Size of a Pea?

 

[drashokn]

roughly 0.7 cms,depending onb the size of pea

 

[DiracPool]

I was on google asking what the Size is for the Amygdala and how big it is.

I can not findout anything just what it is for and what it does.

Can anyone tell me if it is about the Size of a Pea?

Its actually about the size and shape of an almond. That is where the word comes from, Amygdala is greek for almond. Many brain areas got their name from early anatomists who would probe the structure without any clue as to what was what, what did what, and what what was connected to, etc. They simply looked at the crude organization and named structures after the things they looked like. Another famous example is the hippocampus, which looks like a seahorse and, infact means seahorse, again in greek I think, or Latin, those are usually the two languages they used to name these things.