The Amygdala and the Auditory System

HST.722J/9.044J - Fall 2007
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The Amygdala and the Auditory System (Melcher)

Human amygdala responses to music (from Ball et al.2007)

Background

  1. LeDoux JE. Emotion circuits of the brain. Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 23:155-184 (2000).  PDF  pp. 160 -166 are required reading; the rest is optional.

Papers for discussion

  1. Maren S, Yap SA, Goosens KA.  The amygdala is essential for the development of neuronal plasticity in the medial geniculate nucleus during auditory fear conditioning in rats. J Neurosci 21: RC135 (2001). PDF  Discussed 11/6
  2. Ji W, Suga N.  Serotonergic modulation of plasticity of the auditory cortex elicited by fear conditioning. J Neurosci 27:4910-4918 (2007). PDF  Discussed 11/6
  3. Ball T, Rahm B, Eickhoff SB, Schulze-Bonhage A, Speck O, Mutschle I.  Response properties of human amygdala subregions: Evidence based on functional MRI combined with probabilistic anatomical maps. PLPoS ONE 2: e307 (2007)  PDF  Discussed 11/6

Additional reading

  1. Lee HS, Euma YJ, Job SM, Waterhouse BD.  Projection patterns from the amygdaloid nuclear complex to subdivisions of the dorsal raphe nucleus in the rat. Brain Res 1143:116-125 (2007). PDF  Useful reading for the Yi and Suga (2007) paper.