Recognition of facial expressions is critical to our appreciation of the social and physical
environment, with separate emotions having distinct facial expressions. Perception of fearful …

THE amygdala is thought to play a crucial role in emotional and social behaviour1. Animal
studies implicate the amygdala in both fear conditioning2 and face perception3. In humans …

Ten years ago, we reported that SM, a patient with rare bilateral amygdala damage, showed
an intriguing impairment in her ability to recognize fear from facial expressions. Since then …

The amygdalar complex is a medial temporal lobe structure in the brain which is widely
considered to be involved in the neural substrates of emotion. Selective bilateral damage to …

STUDIES in animals have shown that the amygdala receives highly processed visual input1,
2, contains neurons that respond selectively to faces3, and that it participates in emotion4, 5 …

Huntington's disease can particularly affect people's recognition of disgust from facial
expressions 1, 2, and functional neuroimaging research has demonstrated that facial …

Commensurate with the importance of rapidly and efficiently evaluating motivationally
significant stimuli, humans are probably endowed with distinct faculties, and maintain …

Neuropsychological studies report more impaired responses to facial expressions of fear
than disgust in people with amygdala lesions, and vice versa in people with Huntington's …

The amygdala is thought to process fear-related stimuli rapidly and nonconsciously. We
found that an individual with complete bilateral amygdala lesions, who cannot recognize …

The amygdala is thought to be part of a neural system responsive to potential threat (1).
Consistent with this is the amygdala's well-documented sensitivity to fear faces. What is …