How Anxiety Affects the Brain — Nervous System Overload Uncovered #AnxietyInChildren

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]What's happening in the brain? When a child is anxious, the amygdala is on high alert.

[00:00:05]The prefrontal cortex, our logic brain, not working, offline.

[00:00:09]And the nervous system is stuck in threat mode. It's stuck in that sympathetic dominant activation overdrive. I've done over 10,000 brain maps. You can just see it right on a brain map when somebody's like this.

[00:00:22]Pretty incredible.