The Amygdala
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The Amygdala

A Discrete Multitasking Manager

  1. 420 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Amygdala

A Discrete Multitasking Manager

About this book

Among the components of the limbic system, the amygdala is a fascinating structure that is involved in the processes of liking and disliking and in the ways our emotions drive our actions and affect the strength of our memories. Combined with new conceptual breakthroughs, the very latest data obtained by leading world experts in amygdala function that are reviewed in this book have helped to understand how the amygdala contribute to these processes and also to a variety of neurological and neuropsychiatric pathologies.Of course, due to the rate of research advancement, all the chapters presented here correspond to precise questions addressed by experts using highly specific techniques. Therefore, each chapter should be viewed as pieces of a puzzle that represent all the different research areas that have to be taken into consideration in discussing the role of the amygdala in emotion and memory.Although the primary goal of this book is to inform experts and newcomers of some of the latest data in the field of brain structures involved in mechanisms underlying emotional learning and memory, we hope it will also help to stimulate discussion on the functional role of the amygdala and connected brain structures in these mechanisms.

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Information

Publisher
IntechOpen
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9789535109082
eBook ISBN
9789535142621
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Neuroscience
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. The Amygdala - A Discrete Multitasking Manager
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 Amygdala and Emotional Learning in Vertebrates – A Comparative Perspective
  5. Chapter 2 Neuroimaging of the Amygdala: Quantitative Mechanistic Approach
  6. Chapter 3 The Role of the Amygdala in Anxiety Disorders
  7. Chapter 4 Cellular Mechanisms in the Amygdala Involved in Memory of Fear Conditioning
  8. Chapter 5 The Role of Norepinephrine in Amygdala Dependent Fear Learning and Memory
  9. Chapter 6 Auditory Fear Circuits in the Amygdala – Insights from Computational Models
  10. Chapter 7 Amygdala Strengthening of Cortical Memory Representations
  11. Chapter 8 Role of Norepinephrine in Modulating Inhibitory Avoidance Memory Storage: Critical Involvement of the Basolateral Amygdala
  12. Chapter 9 The Insular Cortex and the Amygdala: Shared Functions and Interactions
  13. Chapter 10 Amygdala and Taste Learning
  14. Chapter 11 Amygdalar Models of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
  15. Chapter 12 Amygdala, Childhood Adversity and Psychiatric Disorders
  16. Chapter 13 Traumatic Experiences Disrupt Amygdala – Prefrontal Connectivity
  17. Chapter 14 The Irritable Bowel Syndrome: How Stress Can Affect the Amygdala Activity and the Brain-Gut Axis
  18. Chapter 15 Amygdala in Alzheimer's Disease
  19. Chapter 16 The Ventral Striatopallidum and Extended Amygdala in Huntington Disease