Neonatal Amygdala Lesions Result in Globally Blunted Affect in Adult Rhesus Macaques

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 848-858

  Bliss Moreau, Eliza ^a   Bauman, Melissa D ^a,b   Amaral, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Amygdala; Emotion; Hippocampus; Macaca mulatta; Nonhuman primate; Rhesus

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BILATERAL AMYGDALA; BILATERAL HIPPOCAMPUS; BLUNTED AFFECT; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 83055184755     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025757     Document Type: Article

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