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Fear and the Amygdala

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Over the past 2-3 decades, a converging corpus has implicated the amygdala in assigning emotional significance to sensory information. In particular, data from animal and human studies have demonstrated that the amygdala is a key node in a network of brain regions underlying fear responses. Consistent with its role in fear processing, amygdala hyperarousal has been implicated in a number of disorders, including anxiety and depression. Neuroimaging studies in healthy volunteers suggest that dr...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Elsevier
Pages:
19-24
Publication date:
2010-01-01
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Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:421082
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uuid:689767e0-5ccb-4759-b507-72addb59fa02
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pubs:421082
Source identifiers:
421082
Deposit date:
2013-11-17

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