0 one of two parts of the brain that affect how people feel emotions, especially fear and pleasure --
In comparison to normal controls, a subject with bilateral amygdala damage had difficulty identifying emotions (happy, angry, sad) in sentences that were read to her.
Magnetic resonance imaging volumes of the hippocampus and the amygdala in women with borderline personality disorder and early traumatization.
This factor appears to have a basis in subcortical limbic function, particularly the medial temporal lobe structures, the amygdala, and hippocampus.
Quenching inhibition of development and expression of amygdala kindled seizures with low frequency stimulation.
As predicted, there was significant attenuation of affective load-response by patients with mania in the anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala.
Event-related activation in the amygdala associates with later memory for individual emotional experience.
In addition, it provides very clear anatomical and functional accounts of the orbitofrontal cortex, the amygdala, and the peripheral nervous system.
In addition to these behavioral differences, preterm children exhibited lower regional brain volumes in the cortex, ventricles, basal ganglia, amygdala, hippocampus, and corpus callosum.
