期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 405-413出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00960.x
关键词
autoshaping; excitotoxic lesion; Pavlovian conditioning; rat; subiculum
资金
- MRC [G9537855] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G9537855] Funding Source: Medline
The amygdala is considered to be a core component of the brain's fear system. Data from neuroimaging studies of normal volunteers and brain-damaged patients perceiving emotional facial expressions, and studies of conditioned freezing in rats, all suggest a specific role for the amygdala in aversive motivation. However, the amygdala may also be critical for emotional processing in positive or appetitive settings. Using an appetitive Pavlovian approach procedure we show a theoretically important dissociation in the effects of excitotoxic lesions of the central nucleus and basolateral area of the amygdala, in the rat, Whilst central nucleus lesions impair appetitive Pavlovian conditioning, basolateral lesions do not, Together with other data, these results not only support the hypothesis that the amygdala is critical for appetitive as well as aversive learning, but are also consistent with amygdala subsystems subserving distinct aspects of emotional learning. Lesions of the dorsal or ventral subiculum were without effect on autoshaping, indicating the lack of involvement of hippocampal processing in this form of emotional behaviour and emphasizing further the neural specificity of the effects seen following central amygdala lesions.
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