SLIDE 1 Amygdala lecture John O’Keefe Amygdala interface between the external world and the autonomic nervous system. Identifies stimuli which evoke
- emotions. May also be the primary area where activity is the neural correlate of emotional experience.
Kluver-Bucy syndrome disturbances in visual perception disturbances in emotional/motivational behaviour aggression sexual behaviour feeding behaviour Anatomy of the Amygdala Basolateral Corticomedial Central nuclei Afferents and Efferents Amygdala function in animals Single unit sudies Fear conditioning Social Interaction Human lesion studies Case of SM - Loss of ability to recognise emotional expressions using visual or auditory cues Functional imaging studies Involvement in fear and perhaps anger and disgust
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SLIDE 3 Kluver-Bucy Syndrome following bilateral temporal lobectomy in monkeys. Main components are: visual defects,
changes in emotional behaviour (hypersexuality,hypo-emotionality)
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Basolateral Corticomedial Central
Primate amygdala Transverse sections
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Cortico- medial nuclei hypothalamus neocortex Basolateral nuclei dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus Prefrontal cortex Input Amygdala nucleus Output
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visual input
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Amygdala efferent-Stria Terminalis
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Amygala Eating Cells
Liu et al 2018
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Liu et al 2018
Habituation in Eating Cells
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Amygdala cells are Specific Responsive 55% One Stimulus 61% Rat 40% Food 35% Transport Box 18%
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Other selective amygdala cells
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selective rat cells
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active memory traces for eating rice
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transport box
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active memory traces are independent of behavior
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Pavlovian fear conditioning
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Nuclei involved in conditioned fear and their autonomic and behavioural actions
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Effect of amygdala lesions on social behavior
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affiliative vocalizations towards mother/infant pairs are reduced by amygdala lesions
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Ekman Emotional faces
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Ekman Emotional faces
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electrode placements in temporal lobe
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right human amygdala cells responding to pictures
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SM’s Missing amygdala
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emotions
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Bilateral amygdala activation from threatening words