Aggression is a social behavior essential for securing resources and defending oneself and
family. Thanks to its indispensable function in competition and thus survival, aggression …

Brain-wide circuits that coordinate affective and social behaviours intersect in the amygdala.
Consequently, amygdala lesions cause a heterogeneous array of social and non-social …

A groundbreaking study into the formative role of play in our lives Sergio and Vivien Pellis
have synthesized three decades of empirical research to create a remarkable work …

The amygdala has received intense recent attention from neuroscientists investigating its
function at the molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive, and clinical level. It clearly contributes …

Although clinical observations suggest that humans with amygdala damage have abnormal
fear reactions and a reduced experience of fear [1–3], these impressions have not been …

Research on the neural systems underlying emotion in animal models over the past two
decades has implicated the amygdala in fear and other emotional processes. This work …

▪ Abstract Learning the relationships between aversive events and the environmental stimuli
that predict such events is essential to the survival of organisms throughout the animal …

Evidence from pioneering animal research has suggested that the amygdala is involved in
the processing of aversive stimuli, particularly fear-related information. Fear is central in the …

This article reviews the modern literature on two key aspects of the central circuitry of
emotion: the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the amygdala. There are several different functional …

The medial amygdala (MeA) is critical for the expression of a broad range of social
behaviors, and is also connected to many other brain regions that mediate those same …