A wealth of animal data implicates the amygdala in aspects of emotional processing. In
recent years, functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have begun to refine�…

Findings from humans and animals suggest that the amygdala helps to guide behaviors and
to process knowledge about stimuli and situations that are of special importance to the�…

Evidence from both experimental animal and clinical studies indicates that emotional
behavior is critically dependent on the amygdala. In this chapter we suggest that the�…

Lesion studies in monkeys have provided some of the most compelling evidence for the
involvement of the amygdala in emotional and social behaviour. In spite of this it has proved�…

The amygdala complex has long been known as part of the neural circuitry critical for
emotion. Beyond its role in emotional reactivity, studies of animal models and patients with�…

The amygdala appears to play an essential role in many aspects of emotional information
processing and behavior. Studies over the past year have begun to clarify the anatomical�…

Functional neuroimaging studies have provided strong support for a critical role of the
amygdala in emotional processing. However, several controversies remain in terms of�…

Although the amygdala is a major locus for hedonic processing, how it encodes valence
information is poorly understood. Given the hedonic potency of odor stimuli and the�…

Building on pioneering animal studies, and making use of new, noninvasive techniques for
studying the human brain, research on the human amygdala has blossomed in recent years�…

The somatic marker hypothesis proposes that both the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex
are parts of a neural circuit critical for judgment and decision‐making. Although both�…