▪ Abstract Converging findings of animal and human studies provide compelling evidence
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Research on the neural systems underlying emotion in animal models over the past two
decades has implicated the amygdala in fear and other emotional processes. This work�…

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major
advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what�…

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behavior, it is generally recognized that the behavioral functions of this subcortical group of�…

Research of the neurobiological bases of learning and memory suggest that these
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