I hadn't heard of it until now. I'm generally not a big podcast person. That topic was just something I was interested in a few years back after wondering why some of my former acquaintances were mostly competent in STEM, yet could have extreme cognitive dissonance when it came to extending that information to politics. I forget where I first read the article about the amygdala, but then a few years later [this story](https://archive.li/wz2hE) drops about giving people brain damage to change their religious beliefs and be more accepting of immigrants. They don't specifically cite the amgydala as the target, however >>These researchers sought to do the opposite—to temporarily disable one part of the brain (the part that responds to threats) and measure its effect on beliefs and prejudices connected to them. makes it sound like that's the region they were targeting with their experiments.