Living Without an Amygdala

454 Pages·2016·22.69 MB·English

by  David G. Amaral

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Living without an amygdaLa

Living without
an amygdaLa
EditEd by
David G. Amaral
Ralph Adolphs
thE guiLFoRd PRESS
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To my wonderful wife, Tammy,
who has brought balance to my life and enabled me
to carry out projects such as this
—D. G. A.
To all the human and animal experimental subjects
that have taught us what it is like to live
without an amygdala
—R. A.

about the Editors
David G. Amaral, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neu-
roscience and Research Director of the UC Davis MIND Institute at the
University of California, Davis. His interests include the neurobiology of
social behavior and the development, neuroanatomical organization, and
plasticity of the primate and human amygdala and hippocampal forma-
tion, with a particular focus on understanding the biological bases of
autism spectrum disorder. Dr. Amaral is Director of Autism BrainNet,
which solicits postmortem brain tissue to facilitate autism research, and
Editor-in-Chief of Autism Research. He is a past president of the Interna-
tional Society for Autism Research and a Fellow of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, among other honors.
Ralph Adolphs, PhD, is Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
at the California Institute of Technology. He leads a social neuroscience
laboratory that investigates the psychological and neurobiological under-
pinnings of social behavior, with a particular focus on the role of the
human amygdala and prefrontal cortex. A major goal is to make compari-
sons and contrasts across different clinical populations and research tech-
niques. Dr. Adolphs is a past president of the Association for the Scientific
Study of Consciousness, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sci-
ence, and a recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award from the
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, among other honors.
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