Affective neuroscience: amygdala's role in experiencing fear.
A new neuropsychological study of a rare patient provides novel evidence that amygdala lesions can virtually abolish the experience of fear, illuminating neurobiological mechanisms of fear experience.
Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. shamann@emory.edu
Stephan
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Hamann
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D000679:Amygdala / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology*; D005239:Fear / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans