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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the amygdala

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Examples

  • Patients with amygdalar damage are no more likely to remember emotionally charged words than nonemotionally charged ones.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Neil Brick 2009

  • In GAD, we find evidence of an intra-amygdalar abnormality and engagement of

    Archives of General Psychiatry current issue Etkin, A., Prater, K. E., Schatzberg, A. F., Menon 2009

  • The primary finding of the amygdalar connectivity, gay men were similar to straight women, and gay women were similar to straight men.

    The Neurocritic 2008

  • A small inventory of potential mechanisms could include internalization of a few olfactory receptors important for cat odor detection, alteration in emotional valence of cat odor by brain rewiring, preferential localization of Toxoplasma to brain areas in septohippocampal or amygdalar regions, preferential localization to areas projecting to septohippocampal and amygdalar systems, uniform distribution but some brain regions being more sensitive to neuronal damage by Toxoplasma, and diffusible substances emanating from infected cells or from Toxoplasma.

    Brain Parasites 2007

  • She hands him his copy of the structural and functional imaging analysis and begins to explain, "Increased amygdalar activity in response to affective stimuli.

    Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

  • [8] and obese subjects have dopaminergic deficits that correlate negatively with BMI [9] we hypothesized that the blunted amygdalar activation during gradual GD in subjects with higher BMI

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Dardo Tomasi et al. 2009

  • In fact, that's something that humans with amygdalar damage might do - they're very trusting, "said Shumyatsky.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2008

  • In fact, that's something that humans with amygdalar damage might do - they're very trusting, "said Shumyatsky.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2008

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