This article reviews the modern literature on two key aspects of the central circuitry of
emotion: the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the amygdala. There are several different functional …

Findings from fear-conditioning studies in rats and functional neuroimaging with human
volunteers have led to the suggestion that the amygdala is involved in the preattentive …

The amygdala is critically involved in the processing of anxiety in adults, but little is known
about the neurogenesis of trait-anxiety during adolescence. We correlated amygdala activity …

Functional neuroimaging and lesion-based neuropsychological experiments have
demonstrated the human amygdala's role in recognition of certain emotions signaled by …

We measured amygdala activity in human volunteers during rapid visual presentations of
fearful, happy, and neutral faces using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The …

We review the evidence implicating the amygdala as a critical component of a neural
network of social cognition, drawing especially on research involving the processing of faces …

The amygdala reveals enhanced reactivity to fearful eye whites, even when they are
backwardly masked by a neutral face and therefore processed with limited visual …

Fearful faces readily activate the amygdala. Yet, whether fearful faces evoke fear is unclear.
Startle studies show no potentiation of startle by fearful faces, suggesting that such stimuli do …

We recently demonstrated a functional relationship between fMRI responses within the
amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex based upon whether subjects interpreted …

Behavioural evidence indicates that individual differences in anxiety influence the response
to facial signals of threat. Angry and fearful faces represent qualitatively different forms of …