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Functional Connectivity within the Primate Extended Amygdala Is Heritable and Associated with Early-Life Anxious Temperament.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 29 Aug 2018
Fox Andrew S, Oler Jonathan A, Birn Rasmus M, Shackman Alexander J, Alexander Andrew L, Kalin Ned H
Abstract excerpt
Children with an extremely inhibited, anxious temperament (AT) are at increased risk for anxiety disorders and depression. Using a rhesus monkey model of early-life AT, we previously demonstrated that metabolism in the central extended amygdala (EAc), including the central nucleus of the amygdala (Ce) and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST), is associated with trait-like variation in AT. Here, we use fMRI...
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