In contrast to evidence that the amygdala stimulates stress responses in adults, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found that the amygdala has an inhibitory effect on stress hormones during the early development of nonhuman primates.
The results are published this week in Journal of Neuroscience.
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Our findings fit into an emerging theme in neuroscience research: that during childhood, there is a switch in amygdala function and connectivity with other brain regions, particularly the prefrontal cortex, says Mar Sanchez, PhD, neuroscience researcher at Yerkes and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. The first author of the paper is postdoctoral fellow Jessica Raper, PhD.
Some notable links on the amygdala:
*An effort to correct simplistic views of amygdala as the “fear center” of the brain
*Collection of papers mentioning patient SM, an adult human with an amygdala lesion
*Recent Nature Neuroscience paper on amygdala’s role in appetite control
*Evidence for changing amygdala-prefrontal connectivity in humans during development