ReviewBehavioural brain research2021
Valence encoding in the amygdala influences motivated behavior.
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- Effects of Censoring Explicit Language in Music on Resistance Exercise Performance.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
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- Distinct subpopulations of ventral pallidal cholinergic projection neurons encode valence of olfactory stimuli.Cell reports · 2024Article
- Connecting genomic results for psychiatric disorders to human brain cell types and regions reveals convergence with functional connectivity.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Unraveling the amygdala: A review of its anatomy and functions.Bioinformation · 2024Article
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Abstract
The amygdala is critical for emotional processing and motivated behavior. Its role in these functions is due to its processing of the valence of environmental stimuli. The amygdala receives direct sensory input from sensory thalamus and cortical regions to integrate sensory information from the environment with aversive and/or appetitive outcomes. As many reviews have discussed the amygdala's role in threat processing and fear conditioning, this review will focus on how the amygdala encodes positive valence and the mechanisms that allow it to distinguish between stimuli of positive and negative valence. These findings are also extended to consider how valence encoding populations in the amygdala contribute to local and long-range circuits including those that integrate environmental cues and positive valence. Understanding the complexity of valence encoding in the amygdala is crucial as these mechanisms are implicated in a variety of disease states including anxiety disorders and substance use disorders.
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