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This article is outgrowing its citations. Citations in an article on detailed functional anatomy need to be closely associated with particular sections. A recent update offers a reliable citation in "Principals of Neuroscience" but we can't easily correlate which sections are supported by that text. The information on learned fear conditioning seems to correlate with citations provided, but those too need to be directly associated with the citation. If we have several paragraphs of theory and two or three citations at the bottom, it is difficult to check facts. Other sections did not associate readily with any citation in a reliable source. One citation pointed to speculative literature from advocates of neurolinguistic programming. That is not peer-reviewed literature and does not meet a standard of reliability for a science article. A primary reference for assertions offered in such an article would be more appropriate for encyclopedic content. MoniqueRN 05:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
It seems a bit fishy to me. Sources? Sayeth 19:15, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the relationship between castration and amygdala size I found this Pub Med article. I could not find anything about a link between amygdala size and aggressive behaviour. Renaissance Healer
Way to screw up the formatting, Neil.
For someone with such a profound understanding of the 'magical' brain it seems odd that basic HTML formatting is beyond you.
What does anyone think of this? It seems to be too much a self-reference. haz (user talk) 13:59, 24 June 2006
- I removed the clicking section because it's clearly a biased advertisement. Just don't even tolerate this kind of stuff in the future. - Khol
- Amygdala stimulation is fine, yes- but this "clicking" technique is clearly a fallicy. When it links to a myspace page Clicking at Myspace that reeks of unprofessionalism and silliness- claiming that using the power of your brain to perform "Cloud Busting - Make clouds dissipate with thought." and to take advantage of "Synchronisation - When coincidences aren't coincidence, and you actually realise that with a feeling.", it's clearly something that doesn't deserve any kind of actual status as a legimate anything. Yes, it can be reported with a neutral point of view that some people advocate this kind of stuff but the section that existed before-hand implied that this self-proclaimed magic was true. I mean, let's face it- this is wacko stuff and has no place on wikipedia if it's going to have any kind of standing as a reputable source of real. - Khol
Hi everyone, I was requested to come over to this article and have a look in regards to some sort of commotion? I gave it (and the talk page) a quick skim and the article seems reasonable in its current form; except that I would recommend putting the majority of the article in the singular form, i.e. amygdala is the most common usage. From the talk page, I would skip any reference to the clicking stuff; there is no clicking in the brain (except for clicking in the ear), there are only voltage potentials and current; or more specifically, electrons, nuclei, and photons interacting electromagnetically. Also, I would suggest to add more sources to the "memory section" and furthermore to add more historical neuroscience researchers to this article, e.g. who made the first connection between the fear state of mind and amygdala activity. Adios: --Sadi Carnot 14:16, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Could the pronunciation be put at the top of the page please?--Lionheart Omega 21:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
. Thanks:--Sadi Carnot 13:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
SevenTime <<<<snipped comments already deleted by someone who blanked the entire talk page after filling it up with a defense of ideas expressed in his vanity-press publications; see page history for details Comments by others remain. Intent is that if the person doesn't want his comments here and wants to archive them, fine, but others are participating in a lengthy intermittant discussion during several months and their comments should not be deleted by one who is unhappy that the article does not include references to his self-published original research. SevenTime 08:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Just wondering why Lizard brain redirects here? Thanks. Searles2sels (PJ) 23:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
I followed the redirect, but there's still no mention in this article. 85.118.15.14 (talk) 11:15, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
I renamed the "Disorder" section to "Neuropsychological correlates of amygdala activity" and included a lot of research about the amygdala in primates and in humans (with appropriate citations). I'd like to keep all of this research in the article, as I think it is very relevant, but my passage is what I'd mostly call "groundwork" and I'd like to make additions and improvements to it over time. Suggestions are welcomed. --Ubiq 10:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi- I have worked on the amygdala for two decades and feel the article in its current form does not do justice to the field. As I understand it, the wiki culutre is more about small changes to what exists rather that major re-writes. I tried doing small edits but stopped in frustration. For this reasion, I would like to do a complete re-write of the text to improve the coverage and expand the citations. I have sent sereral colleagues who work on various aspects of the amaygdala my version of an amygdala wiki article and we have been assembling a bibliography to go with it that reflects the current and historical state of the field. Please advise me on whether I should go forward or leave this as it is. Ledouxje (talk) 22:33, 29 April 2008 (UTC)Joseph LeDoux
This has gotta be the part of the brain where the soul peeks out. There should be a section about those interesting disorders you can get where, like, if the amygdala tightens up, everything feels insignificant, like people feel like theyre not the people you know, and if it widens you get a 'religious experience' where everything's oversignificant.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 01:42, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
I'd suggest taking this out until someone has actually read the paper (which is not out yet?). A BBC link just does not cut it, especially considering their abysmal science reporting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferguskane (talk • contribs) 22:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
The latest edit said the amygdala is part of the basal ganglia. I never heard this before. Anyone else skeptical? --1000Faces (talk) 21:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Does this mean the amygdala is considered a part of the corpus striatum? I have understood corpus striatum to include the telencephalic portions of the basal ganglia, plus internal capsule, plus the claustrum (which is sometimes considered part of the basal ganglia) so, given that some scholars no longer include the amygdala within the basal ganglia, would they also exclude it from the corpus striatum? 66.99.96.11 (talk) 20:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC)Victor Broderick
The images are a bit fuzzy on my computer. The text (in those images that have text) is hard to read. The images associated with this article would be better done in SVG format. Is anyone able and willing to make the change? Thanks. SlowJog (talk) 16:42, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
I've replaced the coronal-brain image with a PNG version and downscaled it. The basic underlying problem here is that GIF scaling is currently completely broken on Wikipedia. I think it now looks okay at this scale but I'm not trying to force the issue, if you want to resize it, feel free. I would favor a very small version over a very large version, if it comes to that -- to make it obvious that the image needs to be clicked on in order to be viewed. (I also cropped a bit of unnecessary white space at the edges.) looie496 (talk) 17:28, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed the Scholarpedia uses the GFDL image here for its Amygdala article. I can't see whether the whole article was originally GFDL (I just posted to Scholarpedia talk questioning where exactly the article copyright is listed). Anyway, since the picture from Wikipedia is GFDL that makes the Scholarpedia article a derivative work, so it has to be GFDL also, and so any interesting content can be copied back here. 129.215.37.9 (talk) 04:16, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
I've often heard this term and was disappointed not to find it on Wikipedia. Perhaps someone can expand this article with this content. Here's a link to a video explaining what it means . -- Ϫ 22:37, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
In many places this article speaks of the "amygdalae", a usage that is rarely seen in the literature and comes across as awkward. I would like to change it to "amygdala", at least in places where there is no specific meaning that both sides of the brain are involved. Are there objections? Looie496 (talk) 16:48, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
So what is "the amygdala"? Is it either of two structures (the amygdalae), or the set of both structures together? If the latter, what do you call one of them? I find this ambiguous usage very confusing. If there are two conflicting definitions, the article should say so, not use the singular and the plural form interchangeably at random. For example, the sentence Anatomically, the amygdala and more particularly, its central and medial nuclei, have sometimes been classified as a part of the basal ganglia doesn't make sense. It should be either the amygdalae and more particularly, their central and medial nuclei, have been classified as part of the basal ganglia or the amygdala [...] has been classified as a part of the basal ganglion. --88.73.27.252 (talk) 21:15, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I removed the fact regarding schizophrenia and right amygdala volume. The citation 33 does not say that the right amygdala is larger in schizophrenia. It says "Right hippocampus and amygdala were significantly larger than the left in all groups. Mean amygdala volume in schizophrenia or all psychoses did not differ from comparison subjects."
Regards, Nardzom (talk) 09:59, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
there is some interesting research suggesting correlations between political ideology and the Amygdala, would they warrant their own section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.126.25.46 (talk) 11:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
...but a ctrl-f in the article found no lizard. I know my spontaneous search shouldn't be taken as data, but could a Google Page Rank be considered a reliable source now? Google *is* the zeitgeist intelligence. 83.109.0.174 (talk) 23:10, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
I recently read a couple articles on the "influence of pediatric vaccines on amygdala growth." Might be something to include on this page. but i didn't want to go ahead and start a new section without discussing placement and title, and that type of stuff first. articles: Hewitson, Laura, et al. "Influence of pediatric vaccines on amygdala growth and opioid ligand binding in rhesus macaque infants: A pilot study". Found at:http://www.ane.pl/pdf/7020.pdf second article just mentions previous one: Turlejski, Kris. "Focus on Autism." http://www.ane.pl/pdf/7016.pdf
Looking for suggestions, thoughts.AnieHall (talk) 01:32, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
One study found correlation of amygdala size with altruism. It would be interesting to see if this is reproduced. -- Beland (talk) 18:33, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
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This whole article should be rewritten to eliminate (as far as possible) the hidden bias in language. For example, there is no such thing as an "emotional event" because events don't have emotion. Any "emotion" is a state of being that humans (and probably other vertebrates) generate in response to an event. Ken Evans 15:02, 7 August 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by The ken evans (talk • contribs)
It is stated that 'The right amygdala is also linked with taking action as well as being linked to negative emotions' by source[9]. This source however, doesn't mention anything about initative or action being associated with the right amygdala more than the left. Is this information valid?
Used source 9: Lanteaume L, Khalfa S, Régis J, Marquis P, Chauvel P, Bartolomei F (June 2007). "Emotion induction after direct intracerebral stimulations of human amygdala". Cerebral Cortex. 17 (6): 1307–13. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhl041. PMID 16880223.Davidtanis128 (talk • Special:Contributions/Davidtanis128)
The subdivisions image is not referred to in the text. Would anyone object if I added a section on the Nuclei of the Amygdala and replaces the image? This would be a good source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557007/
High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging reveals nuclei of the human amygdala: manual segmentation to automatic atlas, Z.M Saygin, D Kliemann, 2017
Also FreeSurfer has an atlas: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ Bodysurfinyon (talk) 18:17, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm concerned about several of the claims made in hemispheric specialization subsection of "Structure," such as that there is well established and well understood division of function between the left and right amygdalae, and the suggestion that the right half of the brain responds to negative stimuli and so on. Two of the three citations are of narrow primary research, one from the 1990s and one from 2007, neither of which make the broad claims in the article. The hemispheric specialization claims should be sourced from relatively recent secondary and tertiary sources, like review articles and textbooks, and any material unsupported by citations should be removed. I'll start looking for sources and removing the most dubious claims, so if anyone wants to put stuff back in, please source it robustly. Krb19 (talk) 15:16, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
cf "The central nuclei are involved in.. neuroendocrine responses (stress-hormone release), etc." - Can anybody link to the names of these stress-hormones? Thy SvenAERTS (talk) 02:24, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
The following passage appears to have been lifted verbatim from the cited article which appears to have been a poor translation to English, given the idiosyncratic use of "Exploring": Exploring the primary attractive pheromone activates the basolateral amygdala and the shell of nucleus accumbens but neither the ventral tegmental area nor the orbitofrontal cortex. In contrast, exploring the secondarily attractive male-derived odorants involves activation of a circuit that includes the basolateral amygdala, prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area. Jim Bowery (talk) 18:58, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
It's name in Polish is ciało migdałowate, which can be loosely translated as almond-like body.
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I am a medical student working in addiction medicine at the moment, and was looking for research on this topic -- I can tell you, based on what I have found in other sources, this is off-base from current research and also is written in a really subjective way that is unscientific (ex., shames masturbation, weirdly?? which is an opinion that is not held by the medical community). 128.12.122.54 (talk) 04:31, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Regarding the 3rd paragraph of "Hemispheric Specializations" - "right hemisphere of the amygdala". I reviewed both linked articles and neither divided a single amygdala into hemispheres. I believe hemisphere is referring to the brain, not amygdala. Also, if "amygdala" is intended to be consistently singular in the article rather than describing a system with both amygdalae, this phrase should probably be "amygdala in <or of> the right hemisphere" or perhaps "right amygdala". Xtraterrestrian (talk) 17:17, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Why would the early development of the left amygdala help with detecting danger when the right amygdala is associated with fearful stimuli?
From the article:
"The left amygdala reaches its developmental peak approximately 1.5–2 years prior to the right amygdala. Despite the early growth of the left amygdala, the right increases in volume for a longer period of time. The right amygdala is associated with response to fearful stimuli as well as face recognition. It is inferred that the early development of the left amygdala functions to provide infants the ability to detect danger." FropFrop (talk) 03:18, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
"extentive" > "extensive" ? R. Henrik Nilsson (talk) 08:05, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
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