The Amygdala: A Functional Analysis - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198505019 ISBN 13: 9780198505013

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2000

Riassunto

The amygdala is a central component of the limbic brain system and is known to be vital to understanding aspects of emotion, memory and social behaviour. Dysfunction of the structure is also thought to contribute to a variety of disorders, including autism, Alzheimer's Disease and schizophrenia. The nature of its contribution to these fundamental aspects of behaviour and cognition, and its relationship with other regions of the brain has remained elusive. However, since Aggleton's first book on the subject - The Amygdala: Neurobiological Aspects of Emotion, Memory, and Mental Dysfunction (1992) - there have been major advances in our understanding of the processes involved and a dramatic rise in the volume of research. Scientists are now able to define its contribution in an increasingly precise manner. Leading experts from around the world have contributed chapters to this comprehensive and unique review, describing current thinking on this enigmatic brain structure. This is a book for all those with an interest in the neural basis of emotion and memory.

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Recensione

I have no hesitation in recommending this book highly for anyone working in the fields of emotion, learning, and memory, social neuroscience, and the contribution of the amygdala to human and non-human animal behaviour. (Quarterly Journal of Experiemntal Psychology)

Contenuti

• 1: Aggleton & Saunders: The amygdala - what's happened in the last decade
• 2: Pitkänen: Connectivity of the rat amygdaloid complex
• 3: Chapman & Chattarji: Synaptic plasticity in the amygdala
• 4: Weiss: Plasticity in the amygdala and kindling
• 5: File: The amygdala: anxiety and benzopdiazepines
• 6: Davis: The role of the amygdala in conditioned and unconditioned fear and anxiety
• 7: LeDoux: The amygdala and emotion: a view through fear
• 8: Gallagher: The amygdala and associative learning
• 9: Lamprecht & Dudai: The amygdala in conditioned taste aversion: it's there, but where
• 10: Everitt et al: Differential involvement of amygdala subsystems in appetitive conditioning and drug addiction
• 11: Amygdala: role in modulation of memory storage:
• 12: Cahill: Modulation of long-term memory in humans by emotional arousal: adrenergic activation & the amygdala
• 13: Rolls: Neurophysiology and functions of the primate amygdala and the neural basis of emotion
• 14: Barton & Aggleton: Primate evolution and the amygdala
• 15: Bachevalier: The amygdala, social behaviour and autism
• 16: Baxter & Murray: Reinterpreting the behavioural effects of amygdala lesions in nonhuman primates
• 17: Easton & Gaffan: Amygdala and the memory of reward: the importance of fibres of passage from the basal forebrain
• 18: Adolphs & Tranel: Emotion, recognition and the human amygdala
• 19: Dolan: Functional neuroimaging of the amygdala during emotional processing and learning
• 20: The amygdala and Alzheimer's disease:

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198505019
• ISBN 13: 9780198505013
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 704
• Redattore: Aggleton John
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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