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- Downer removed one amygdala in rhesus monkeys, at the same time transecting the optic chiasm and the commissures that link the two hemispheres (see Chapter 27). In so doing, he produced an animal with a single amygdala that had access only to visual inputs from the eye on the same side of the head.
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Experiments first performed in the late 1950s by John Downer at University College London vividly demonstrated the importance of the amygdala in aggressive behavior. Downer removed one amygdala in rhesus monkeys, at the same time transecting the optic chiasm and the commissures that link the two hemispheres (see Chapter 27).
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Amygdala symptoms in a monkey when it was looking with one eye but not the other eye (Downer, 1962) Downer’s experiments were carried out in split-brain monkeys with . unilateral. amygdalectomy. What additional lesions were necessary? 33
Jan 1, 1986 · The bizarre behavior of an amygdalectomized monkey, an unforgettable sight to naive and sophisticated observers alike, surely tells us that this structure has a central role in emotions. But how are we to define that role? A major clue to the puzzle was uncovered by Downer (1961).
- John P. Aggleton, Mortimer Mishkin
- 1986
Nov 9, 2000 · Abstract. The amygdala is a central component of the limbic brain system and is known to be vital to understanding aspects of emotion, memory and social behaviour. Dysfunction of the structure is also thought to contribute to a variety of disorders, including autism, Alzheimer's Disease and schizophrenia. The nature of its contribution to these ...
May 31, 2021 · The amygdala plays a key role in both emotional processing and stress response; alterations in amygdala neural activation on emotional tasks were reported in patients with disorders associated with stress and disturbed emotional perception, such as affective disorders.
- Goran Šimić, Mladenka Tkalčić, Vana Vukić, Damir Mulc, Ena Španić, Marina Šagud, Francisco E. Olucha...
- 2021
