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Overview
The amygdala is a central component of the limbic brain system and is known to be vital to understanding aspects of emotions, memory and social behavior. Dysfuction of the structure is also thought to contribute to a variety of disorders, including autism, Alzheimer's Disease and schizophrenia. The nature of its contribution to these fundamental aspects of behavior and cognition, and its relationship with other regions of the brain has remained elusive. However, since Aggleton's first book on the subject - The Amygdala: Neurobiological Aspects of Emotion, Memory, and Mental Dysfunction (1992) - there have been some major advances in our understanding of the processes involved and a dramatic rise in the volume of research. Scientists are now able to define its contribution in an increasingly precise manner. Leading experts from around the world have contributed chapters to this comprehensive and unique review, describing current thinking on the enigmatic brain structure. This book for all those with an interest in the neural basis of emotion and memory.
The book contains predominantly black-and-white illustrations, with some color illustrations.
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Reviewer: Cristina Orfei, MD(University of Illinois at Chicago)Description: This is a detailed update of the functional role of the amygdala in the mechanism of memory and emotion in humans, non-humans, and rats. The role of the amygdala in schizoaffective disorders, autism, posttraumatic stress disorders, affective disorder, and addictive behavior are described. There is a special chapter on amygdala abnormalities in Alzheimer's Disease. The previous edition was published in 1992.
Purpose: The purpose is to inform and promote future amygdala research. This is a worthy objective as the interconnection between embedded memories and emotional content is fundamental to the understanding of posttraumatic stress disorder and addictive behavior. The objective of linking neuroanatomical substrates to behavioral manifestations is fully reached by the several authors of the book.
Audience: This book is written for neurobiologists, research psychologists, and neuropsychiatrists.
Features: The topics dwell on the connection between long term potentiation in the process of memorization to emotional stimuli and rewarding mechanisms. Neuroanatomical substrates and functions are explored by analysis of different pathways connecting the amygdala to the orbitofrontal cortex, temporal cortex, hypothalamus, substantia nigra, and brain stem. Areas that are particularly well covered are the neurophysiology and function of the primate amygdala, in particular the mechanisms of long term potentiation and long term depression seen as mechanisms if bi-directional capacity of synaptic activity, and the phenomena of kindling as a model of long term neuronal expressions. Of interest is the inclusion of functional MRI images in documenting recognition of emotions from facial expressions.
Assessment: This second edition is needed to provide a comprehensive insight into different levels of research on the amygdala in the areas of functional imaging, studies of facial processing after amygdala damage, specific cytotoxic lesions of primate amygdala, long term potentiation, and depression.
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Table of Contents
1. The amygdala - what's happened in the last decade, Aggleton & Saunders
2. Connectivity of the rat amygdaloid complex, Pitkänen
3. Synaptic plasticity in the amygdala, Chapman & Chattarji
4. Plasticity in the amygdala and kindling, Weiss
5. The amygdala: anxiety and benzopdiazepines, File
6. The role of the amygdala in conditioned and unconditioned fear and anxiety, Davis
7. The amygdala and emotion: a view through fear, LeDoux
8. The amygdala and associative learning, Gallagher
9. The amygdala in conditioned taste aversion: it's there, but where, Lamprecht & Dudai
10. Differential involvement of amygdala subsystems in appetitive conditioning and drug addiction, Everitt et al
11. Amygdala: role in modulation of memory storage
12. Modulation of long-term memory in humans by emotional arousal: adrenergic activation & the amygdala, Cahill
13. Neurophysiology and functions of the primate amygdala and the neural basis of emotion, Rolls
14. Primate evolution and the amygdala, Barton & Aggleton
15. The amygdala, social behaviour and autism, Bachevalier
16. Reinterpreting the behavioural effects of amygdala lesions in nonhuman primates, Baxter & Murray
17. Amygdala and the memory of reward: the importance of fibres of passage from the basal forebrain, Easton & Gaffan
18. Emotion, recognition and the human amygdala, Adolphs & Tranel
19. Functional neuroimaging of the amygdala during emotional processing and learning, Dolan
20. The amygdala and Alzheimer's disease