The Human Basolateral Amygdala Is Indispensable for Social Experiential Learning [PDF]
, 2019 Trust and betrayal are central to our social world, and adaptive responses to generous and selfish behavior are crucial to our economic and social well-being [1]. We learn about others’ trustworthiness through trial and error during repeated interactions
Eisenegger, Christoph +6 more
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Amygdalae Enlargement and Activation are Associated with Social Network Complexity in Individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) [PDF]
, 2013 Brain volumetric studies reveal that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associated with significant changes in several neural regions, including enlargements in the amygdalae, which are small subcortical structures located deep within the ...
Jasper, Christina
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Preserved and impaired emotional memory in Alzheimer's disease. [PDF]
, 2012 International audiencePatients with early atrophy of both limbic structures involved in memory and emotion processing in Alzheimer's disease (AD) provide a unique clinical population for investigating how emotion is able to modulate retention processes ...
Baciu, Monica +2 more
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The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity [PDF]
, 2017 The human amygdala is a key structure for processing emotional facial expressions, but it remains unclear what aspects of emotion are processed. We investigated this question with three different approaches: behavioural analysis of 3 amygdala lesion ...
Adolphs, Ralph +12 more
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Does bilateral damage to the human amygdala produce autistic symptoms? [PDF]
, 2010 A leading neurological hypothesis for autism postulates amygdala dysfunction. This hypothesis has considerable support from anatomical and neuroimaging studies.
Paul, Lynn K. +3 more
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Single nucleotide substitution mutations and polymorphisms in ECM1 gene in lipoid proteinosis in siblings of a Pakistani family [PDF]
, 2013 A number of mutations in extracellular matrix protein 1 (ECM1) that is a glycoprotein and expressed in skin and other tissues are reported to cause a rare, autosomal recessive disorder called lipoid proteinosis (LP).
Azhar, A +5 more
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Social motives in a patient with bilateral selective amygdala lesions: Shift in prosocial motivation but not in social value orientation [PDF]
, 2021 Humans hold social motives that are expressed in social preferences and influence how they evaluate and share payoffs. Established models in psychology and economics quantify social preferences such as general social value orientation, which captures ...
Bach, DR +3 more
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Processing of the Arousal of Subliminal and Supraliminal Emotional Stimuli by the Human Amygdala [PDF]
, 2003 The amygdala is known to play an important role in conscious and unconscious processing of emotional and highly arousing stimuli. Neuroanatomical evidence suggests that the amygdala participates in the control of autonomic responses, such as skin ...
Adolphs, Ralph, Gläscher, Jan
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The social brain in psychiatric and neurological disorders [PDF]
, 2012 Psychiatric and neurological disorders have historically provided key insights into the structure-function relationships that subserve human social cognition and behavior, informing the concept of the 'social brain'.
Adolphs, Ralph, Kennedy, Daniel P.
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