Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is often seen in women, and symptom severity is known to vary over the menstrual cycle. In addition, activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis enhances symptomology and patients with IBS have increased activation of the amygdala, a brain region known to facilitate HPA output. However, little is known about the effects of amygdala activation durin...

Numerous neuroimaging studies have strongly implicated the amygdala in dreaming. Various neuropsychological dream theories propose roles for the amygdala in dreaming (particularly in the generation of dream affect), however little empirical research on its function in dreaming exists. Urbach Wiethe Disease is a very rare genetic condition which leads to calcification of the amygdala over time. ...

The review presents the latest literature describing Central nucleus of Amygdala complex brain (CE), which is an important link in autonomic nervous network. It appears early stages evolution telencephalon. This determines its solid phylogenetic age and explains heteromorphy, manifested by presence a number subnucleus: medial, intermediate, lateral latero-capsular. article provides information ...

Recent studies indicate that the lateral subdivision of the central amygdala (CeL) is essential for fear learning. Specifically, fear conditioning induces cell-type-specific synaptic plasticity in CeL neurons that is required for the storage of fear memories. The CeL also controls fear expression by gating the activity of the medial subdivision of the central amygdala (CeM), the canonical amygd...

The etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia to date appears unclear. Multiple types research have focused attention on the possible etiological role amygdala. amygdala is involved in emotion processing, cognitive function, and social cognition; these aspects appear severely impaired schizophrenia. In this brief review, we will look at studies that correlated morpho-functional with psychopathological ...

BACKGROUND Central pain syndrome is characterized by a combination of abnormal pain sensations, and pain medications often provide little or no relief. Accumulating animal and clinical studies have shown that impairments of the spinothalamic tract (STT) and thalamocingulate pathway causes somatosensory dysfunction in central post-stroke pain (CPSP), but the involvement of other neuronal circuit...

Abstract The left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is a key region involved in emotion regulation and an effective target for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatment depression. Evidence shows that the dlPFC connects with amygdala, emotional responses processing, during regulation. Yet, our understanding of causal regulatory role on amygdala minimal. We performed 3 m...

introduction: the claustrum interconnects with the allocortical and neocortical regions and also projects to the hippocampus and the amygdala. .the role of claustrum in the complex partial seizure is not clear. thus in this study the effect of amygdala lesion on anterior claustrum kindled seizures in rat were investigated. methods: male wistar rats, weighting 250-300 g, were received dc current...

low frequency stimulation (lfs) is a potential alternative therapy for epilepsy. however, it seems that the anticonvulsant effects of lfs depend on its target sites in the brain. thus, the present study was designed to compare the anticonvulsant effects of lfs administered to amygdala, piriform cortex and substantia nigra on amygdala kindling acquisition. in control group, rats were kindled in ...

The purpose of this study was to clarify further the site of action in the amygdala as well as functional characteristics of feeding in response to two GABA receptor agonists. Guide cannulae for microinjection were implanted stereotaxically in the rat just above the central nucleus of the amygdala (CNA). Microinjections of 0.05, 0.25, 0.5 or 1.0 nmol muscimol, a GABAA-selective receptor agonist...