Amygdalar Volume and Emotional Memory in Alzheimer's Disease

OBJECTIVE: Everyday experience suggests that highly emotional events are often the most memorable. Experimental work in animals and humans has demonstrated that the amygdaloid complex plays a crucial role in emotional memory, i.e., memory of events arousing strong emotions. The aim of this study was...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of psychiatry 1999-02, Vol.156 (2), p.216-222
Hauptverfasser:	Mori, Etsuro, Ikeda, Manabu, Hirono, Nobutsugu, Kitagaki, Hajime, Imamura, Toru, Shimomura, Tatsuo
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Alzheimer Disease - diagnosis Alzheimer Disease - pathology Alzheimer Disease - psychology Alzheimer's disease Amygdala - pathology Amygdala - physiology Atrophy Biological and medical sciences Brain Cell Count Cognition Disorders - diagnosis Cognition Disorders - psychology Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases Disasters Emotions Emotions - physiology Factors Female Geriatrics Hippocampus - pathology Hippocampus - physiology Humans Japan Life Change Events Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Medical sciences Memory Memory - physiology Middle Aged Neurology Neuropsychological Tests Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Regression Analysis
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