The Amygdala

• 1. The amygdala - what's happened in the last decade ; 2. Connectivity of the rat amygdaloid complex ; 3. Synaptic plasticity in the amygdala ; 4. Plasticity in the amygdala and kindling ; 5. The amygdala: anxiety and benzopdiazepines ; 6. The role of the amygdala in conditioned and unconditioned fear and anxiety ; 7. The amygdala and emotion: a view through fear ; 8. The amygdala and associative learning ; 9. The amygdala in conditioned taste aversion: it's there, but where ; 10. Differential involvement of amygdala subsystems in appetitive conditioning and drug addiction ; 12. Modulation of long-term memory in humans by emotional arousal: adrenergic activation & the amygdala ; 13. Neurophysiology and functions of the primate amygdala and the neural basis of emotion ; 14. Primate evolution and the amygdala ; 15. The amygdala, social behaviour and autism ; 16. Reinterpreting the behavioural effects of amygdala lesions in nonhuman primates ; 17. Amygdala and the memory of reward: the importance of fibres of passage from the basal forebrain ; 18. Emotion, recognition and the human amygdala ; 19. Functional neuroimaging of the amygdala during emotional processing and learning

I have no hesitation in recommending this book highly for anyone working in the fields of emotion, learning, and memory, social neuroscience, and the contribution of the amygdala to human and non-human animal behaviour.