Author | Eleftheriou, Basil E. author |
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Title | The Neurobiology of the Amygdala [electronic resource] : The Proceedings of a Symposium on the Neurobiology of the Amygdala, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 6-17, 1971 / by Basil E. Eleftheriou |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1972 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8987-7 |
Descript | XXV, 819 p. online resource |
Introductory Remarks -- Prologue -- Embryology -- The Development of the Human Amygdaloid Complex -- Anatomy -- Functional Implications of a Quantitative Ultrastructural Analysis of Synapses in the Preoptic Area and Ventromedial Nucleus -- Some Aspects of the Structural Organization of the Amygdala -- The Neural Connections of the Amygdaloid Complex in Mammals -- The Amygdaloid Projection Field in the Rat as Studied with the Cupric-Silver Method -- Stimulation and Regional Ablation of the Amygdaloid Complex with Reference to Functional Representations -- The Distribution of Acetylcholinesterase Enzyme in the Amygdala and Its Role in Aggressive Behavoir -- Electrophysiology โ Neurophysiology -- Effects of Electrical Stimulation of the Amygdaloid Complex on the Ventromedial Hypothalamus -- Amygdaloid-Hypothalamic Neurophysiological Interrelationships -- Relationships among Amygdaloid and Other Limbic Structures in Influencing Activity of Lateral Hypothalamic Neurons -- The Role of the Amygdala in Controlling Hypothalamic Output -- The Human Amygdala: Electrophysiological Studies -- Neurosurgery -- Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Its Possible Contribution to the Understanding of the Functional Significance of the Amygdala and of Its Interaction with Neocortical-Temporal Mechanisms -- Stereotaxic Amygdalotomy -- Deep Temporal Lobe Stimulation in Man -- Psychology โ Behavior โ Psychiatry -- Effects of Amygdalectomy on Social-Affective Behavior in Nonhuman Primates -- The Role of the Amygdala in Escape-Avoidance Behavoirs -- Role of the Amygdala in the Control of โMouse-Killingโ Behavior in the Rat -- Long Term Alteration Following Amygdaloid Stimulation -- The Organization of the Defence Reaction Elicited from Amygdala and Its Connections -- Pharmacology -- Electrical Activity in the Amygdala and Its Modification by Drugs -- The Neurophysiological Effects of Amphetamine upon the Cat Amygdala -- Neuroendocrinology -- Effects of Lesions and Electrical Stimulation of the Amygdala on Hypothalamic-Hypophyseal-Regulation -- The Amygdaloid Nuclear Complex and Mechanisms of Release of Vasopressin from the Neurohypophysis -- Do Hypothalamic Neuroendocrine Cells have a Synaptic Output? -- Functions of the Amygdala Related to the Feedback Actions of Gonadal Steroid Hormones -- Estrogen, Androgen, and Glucocorticosteroid Concentrating Neurons in the Amygdala, Studied by Dry Autoradiography -- Estradiol-Concentrating Cells in the Rat Amygdala as Part of a Limbic-Hypothalamic Hormone-Sensitive System -- Remarks to Dr. Pfaff -- Molecular Biology -- Effects of Amygdaloid Lesions on Hypothalamic Macromolecules