Advanced Seminars in Neuroendocrinology - Central Nucleus of the Amygdala (CeA)

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Advanced Seminars in Neuroendocrinology
CeA

(Central Nucleus of the Amygdala)

Fall 2001

Date	Speaker	Title of the *1^o* Journal Paper	Authors	year, *journal*	volume and pages
September 14	Ken Renner	Organization of the intra-amygdaloid circuitries in the rat: An emerging framework for understanding functions of the amygdala	Pitkänen, A V Savander JE LeDoux	1997, TINS	20: 517-523
September 20 Neuroscience Journal Club	Joyce Keifer	Intra-amygdala blockade of the NR_2B subunit of the NMDA receptor disrupts the acquisition but not the expression of fear conditioning	Rodrigues, SM GE Schafe JE LeDoux	2001, J Neurosci	21: 6889-6896
September 21	Holly Miner	Psychological stress increased corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA and content in the central nucleus of the amygdala but not the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in the rat _{power point presentation}	Makino, S T Shibasaki N Yamauchi T Nishioka T Mimoto I Wakabayashi PW Gold K Hashimoto	1999, Brain Research	850: 136-143
September 28	Rob Miller	The central amygdala modulates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to systemic interleukin_1b administration _{power point presentation} _{bg: Herman & Cullinan 97}	Xu, Y A Day KM Buller	1999, Neuroscience	94: 175-183
October 12	Holly Miner	Role of PAG in the antinociception evoked from the medial or central amygdala in rats _{power point presentation} _{bg: Da Costa Gomez et al 1995} _{bg: Parades et al 2000}	Oliveria, MA WA Prado	2001, Brain Res Bull	54: 55-63
October 19	Whitney Meyer	Amygdala is critical for stress-induced modulation of hippocampal long-term potentiation and learning _{power point presentation} _{bg: Goosens et al 2000}	Kim, JJ HJ Lee J-S Han MG Packard	2001, J Neurosci	21: 5222-5228
October 26	Jerry Erlandson	Role of PAG in the antinociception evoked from the medial or central amygdala in rats _{power point presentation} _{bg: Da Costa Gomez 1995} _{bg: Paredes 2000}	Oliveira, MA WA Prado	2001, Brain Res Bull	54: 55-63
November	9	JB Johnston Club			San Diego, CA
November	16	Society for Neuroscience	31^th	Annual Meeting	San Diego, CA
November	23	*Thanksgiving*	Pilgrims	1622	1: eat-sleep
November 30	Wayne Korzan	Stress-induced sensitization of CRH-ir but not P-CREB-ir responsivity in the rat central nervous system	Bruijnzeel, AW R Stam JC Compaan VM Wiegant	2001, Brain Research	908: 187-196
December 7	Øyvind Øverli & Erik Höglund	Fish Amygdala
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Books:
The Amygdala - A Functional Analysis (J Aggleton, ed; 2000)

Links to sites on the Amygdala:

The Amygdala in Brain Function: NY Acad Sci Symposium
LeDoux Laboratory NYU
Fear and the Amygdala
Amygdala Home Page
amygdala structure directory
amygdala and depression
Feed Magazine: Joseph LeDoux on the Amygdala
Axiety Disorders: Amygdalar circuitry
Main Areas Involved with Emotions
Increased dopamine release in the human amygdala during performance of cognitive tasks- Nature Neuroscience paper (2001)4 : 201 - 206
Measuring the Amygdala
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Hijacking of the Amydala: This is what happens in your brain when you get really mad
Amygdala: The Amazing Brain Music Adventure

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