What do we mean when we talk about an “amygdala hijack?”

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The correct answer is 2. The writer Daniel Goleman coined the phrase “amygdyla hijack” to describe what is happening when we experience an emotional meltdown. That overwhelming feeling is the result of our amygdala, or our emotional brain, overriding input from our frontal lobe, or our rational brain.
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