All Relations between consciousness and amygdala

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Mercedes Atienza, Jose L Canter. Modulatory effects of emotion and sleep on recollection and familiarity. Journal of sleep research. vol 17. issue 3. 2009-02-27. PMID:18503512. as emotional events appear to gain preference during encoding, via the modulatory effect of amygdala on prefrontal and medial temporal lobe regions, conscious retrieval of emotional pictures (relative to neutral ones) was expected to be less disrupted by sleep loss. 2009-02-27 2023-08-12 human
Udo Dannlowski, Patricia Ohrmann, Jochen Bauer, Jürgen Deckert, Christa Hohoff, Harald Kugel, Volker Arolt, Walter Heindel, Anette Kersting, Bernhard T Baune, Thomas Suslo. 5-HTTLPR biases amygdala activity in response to masked facial expressions in major depression. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. vol 33. issue 2. 2008-02-06. PMID:17406646. recent studies reported that amygdala activity during conscious emotion processing is modulated by a functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene (5-httlpr) in healthy subjects. 2008-02-06 2023-08-12 human
Arne Ohman, Katrina Carlsson, Daniel Lundqvist, Martin Ingva. On the unconscious subcortical origin of human fear. Physiology & behavior. vol 92. issue 1-2. 2007-12-06. PMID:17599366. consistent with the hypothesis that the amygdala is central to fear activation, brain imaging studies show that fear stimuli activate the amygdala, even when conscious recognition is prevented by backward masking. 2007-12-06 2023-08-12 human
Ute Habel, Christian Windischberger, Birgit Derntl, Simon Robinson, Ilse Kryspin-Exner, Ruben C Gur, Ewald Mose. Amygdala activation and facial expressions: explicit emotion discrimination versus implicit emotion processing. Neuropsychologia. vol 45. issue 10. 2007-07-24. PMID:17408704. a significant correlation between amygdala activation and emotion recognition, but not age discrimination performance, emphasizes the amygdala's enhanced role during conscious emotion processing. 2007-07-24 2023-08-12 human
Xin Feng, Theo Louis Peeters, Ming Tan. Motilin activates neurons in the rat amygdala and increases gastric motility. Peptides. vol 28. issue 3. 2007-04-18. PMID:17222944. in conscious rats, gastric motility was recorded after microinjection of motilin, motilin receptor antagonist (gm-109) or a mixture of the two into the basomedial amygdala nucleus (bma). 2007-04-18 2023-08-12 rat
Olivier Yu, Nathalie Parizel, Laure Pain, Blandine Guignard, Bernard Eclancher, Yres Mauss, Daniel Grucke. Texture analysis of brain MRI evidences the amygdala activation by nociceptive stimuli under deep anesthesia in the propofol-formalin rat model. Magnetic resonance imaging. vol 25. issue 1. 2007-03-28. PMID:17222726. our statistical analysis of texture shows that these changes were present only in the amygdala, in agreement with the facts already known about the unconscious memorization of nociceptive stimuli. 2007-03-28 2023-08-12 rat
Kazuyuki Ohara, Yoshio Morit. [Case with probable dementia with Lewy bodies, who shows reduplicative paramnesia and Capgras syndrome]. Seishin shinkeigaku zasshi = Psychiatria et neurologia Japonica. vol 108. issue 7. 2006-12-08. PMID:16999337. the above mentioned symptoms might be originated not only from the disturbance of visuospacial recognition, which involves the limbic system (especially amygdala), medial frontal cortex, and right hemisphere of the brain, but also from the disturbance of recursive consciousness, due to diffusely damaged brain regions with lewy body pathology. 2006-12-08 2023-08-12 Not clear
Leanne M Williams, Belinda J Liddell, Andrew H Kemp, Richard A Bryant, Russell A Meares, Anthony S Peduto, Evian Gordo. Amygdala-prefrontal dissociation of subliminal and supraliminal fear. Human brain mapping. vol 27. issue 8. 2006-11-01. PMID:16281289. the findings suggest that preverbal processing of fear may occur via a direct rostral-ventral amygdala pathway without the need for conscious surveillance, whereas elaboration of consciously attended signals of fear may rely on higher-order processing within a dorsal cortico-amygdala pathway. 2006-11-01 2023-08-12 Not clear
Thomas Suslow, Patricia Ohrmann, Jochen Bauer, Astrid Veronika Rauch, Wolfram Schwindt, Volker Arolt, Walter Heindel, Harald Kuge. Amygdala activation during masked presentation of emotional faces predicts conscious detection of threat-related faces. Brain and cognition. vol 61. issue 3. 2006-09-26. PMID:16510224. amygdala activation during masked presentation of emotional faces predicts conscious detection of threat-related faces. 2006-09-26 2023-08-12 human
Arne Ohma. The role of the amygdala in human fear: automatic detection of threat. Psychoneuroendocrinology. vol 30. issue 10. 2005-10-04. PMID:15963650. when the stimulus conditions allow conscious processing, the amygdala response to feared stimuli is enhanced and a cortical network that includes the anterior cingulate cortex and the anterior insula is activated. 2005-10-04 2023-08-12 human
Amit Etkin, Kristen C Klemenhagen, Joshua T Dudman, Michael T Rogan, René Hen, Eric R Kandel, Joy Hirsc. Individual differences in trait anxiety predict the response of the basolateral amygdala to unconsciously processed fearful faces. Neuron. vol 44. issue 6. 2005-02-22. PMID:15603746. unconscious processing modulated activity only in the basolateral subregion of the amygdala, while conscious processing modulated activity only in the dorsal amygdala (containing the central nucleus). 2005-02-22 2023-08-12 human
Amit Etkin, Kristen C Klemenhagen, Joshua T Dudman, Michael T Rogan, René Hen, Eric R Kandel, Joy Hirsc. Individual differences in trait anxiety predict the response of the basolateral amygdala to unconsciously processed fearful faces. Neuron. vol 44. issue 6. 2005-02-22. PMID:15603746. whereas activation of the dorsal amygdala by conscious stimuli was consistent across subjects and independent of trait anxiety, activity in the basolateral amygdala to unconscious stimuli, and subjects' reaction times, were predicted by individual differences in trait anxiety. 2005-02-22 2023-08-12 human
William D S Killgore, Deborah A Yurgelun-Tod. Activation of the amygdala and anterior cingulate during nonconscious processing of sad versus happy faces. NeuroImage. vol 21. issue 4. 2004-08-06. PMID:15050549. previous functional neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that the amygdala activates in response to fearful faces presented below the threshold of conscious visual perception. 2004-08-06 2023-08-12 Not clear
William D S Killgore, Deborah A Yurgelun-Tod. Activation of the amygdala and anterior cingulate during nonconscious processing of sad versus happy faces. NeuroImage. vol 21. issue 4. 2004-08-06. PMID:15050549. findings suggest that the amygdala and anterior cingulate are important components of a network involved in detecting and discriminating affective information presented below the normal threshold of conscious visual perception. 2004-08-06 2023-08-12 Not clear
Jan Gläscher, Ralph Adolph. Processing of the arousal of subliminal and supraliminal emotional stimuli by the human amygdala. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 23. issue 32. 2003-12-08. PMID:14614086. the amygdala is known to play an important role in conscious and unconscious processing of emotional and highly arousing stimuli. 2003-12-08 2023-08-12 human
Ashok Gupt. Unconscious amygdalar fear conditioning in a subset of chronic fatigue syndrome patients. Medical hypotheses. vol 59. issue 6. 2003-06-12. PMID:12445517. the unconscious amygdala may become conditioned to be chronically sensitised to negative symptoms arising from the body. 2003-06-12 2023-08-12 Not clear
David H Zal. The human amygdala and the emotional evaluation of sensory stimuli. Brain research. Brain research reviews. vol 41. issue 1. 2003-03-21. PMID:12505650. specific conclusions and hypotheses include: (1) the amygdala activates during exposure to aversive stimuli from multiple sensory modalities; (2) the amygdala responds to positively valenced stimuli, but these responses are less consistent than those induced by aversive stimuli; (3) amygdala responses are modulated by the arousal level, hedonic strength or current motivational value of stimuli; (4) amygdala responses are subject to rapid habituation; (5) the temporal characteristics of amygdala responses vary across stimulus categories and subject populations; (6) emotionally valenced stimuli need not reach conscious awareness to engage amygdala processing; (7) conscious hedonic appraisals do not require amygdala activation; (8) activation of the amygdala is associated with modulation of motor readiness, autonomic functions, and cognitive processes including attention and memory; (9) amygdala activations do not conform to traditional models of the lateralization of emotion; and (10) the extent and laterality of amygdala activations are related to factors including psychiatric status, gender and personality. 2003-03-21 2023-08-12 human
P Vuilleumier, J L Armony, K Clarke, M Husain, J Driver, R J Dola. Neural response to emotional faces with and without awareness: event-related fMRI in a parietal patient with visual extinction and spatial neglect. Neuropsychologia. vol 40. issue 12. 2002-11-29. PMID:12208011. these results demonstrate that amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex can be activated by emotional stimuli even without awareness after parietal damage; and that substantial unconscious residual processing can occur within spared brain areas well beyond visual cortex, despite neglect and extinction. 2002-11-29 2023-08-12 Not clear
Barry Layton, Robert Krikoria. Memory mechanisms in posttraumatic stress disorder. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences. vol 14. issue 3. 2002-09-30. PMID:12154148. it is argued that the amygdala is the locus of consolidation of the core of the traumatic experience and that amygdalar inhibition of hippocampal function at high levels of emotional arousal mediates diminution of conscious memory for peritraumatic events. 2002-09-30 2023-08-12 Not clear
Heidrun Potschka, Wolfgang Lösche. A comparison of extracellular levels of phenytoin in amygdala and hippocampus of kindled and non-kindled rats. Neuroreport. vol 13. issue 1. 2002-07-18. PMID:11924882. for evaluation of this possibility, we used brain microdialysis in order to compare extracellular levels of the aed phenytoin in amygdala and hippocampus of conscious, unrestrained amygdala-kindled and non-kindled rats. 2002-07-18 2023-08-12 rat