Amygdala and Extended Amygdala of the Rat: A Cytoarchitectonical, Fibroarchitectonical, and Chemoarchitectonical Survey

The rat perirhinal cortex: A review of anatomy, physiology, plasticity, and function

“…The amygdala consists of a number of nuclei, including the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract, bed nucleus of the olfactory tract, anterior amygdaloid area, accessory basal nucleus, basal nucleus and lateral nucleus (Pitkä nen et al, 2000;de Olmos et al, 2004), and the amygdala has been linked to emotion (de Vito and Smith, 1982;Ansah et al, 2010;Ponomarev et al, 2010), memory (Maren, 1999;Savage and Guarino, 2010), sexual functioning (Carrer et al, 1973;Carrer, 1978;Holder and Mong, 2010) and neuroendocrine functioning Taleisnik, 1978, 1980). From the amygdala, the perirhinal cortex receives projections from the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract, accessory basal nucleus, basal nucleus and lateral nucleus Price, 1974, 1977;McDonald and Jackson, 1987;Pikkarainen and Pitkä nen, 2001;Furtak et al, 2007b) with area 35 receiving the heaviest projections from the amygdala compared to area 36 and the accessory basal and lateral nuclei being the most prominent origins of these projections (Pitkä nen et al, 2000).…”

Glutamate Microinjected in the Posterodorsal Medial Amygdala Induces Subtle Increase in the Consumption of a Three‐Choice Macronutrient Self‐Selection Diet in Male Rats

“…The MeA is one of the major nuclei of the amygdaloid complex and is considered part of the ''extended amygdala'' in the rat forebrain (de Olmos et al, 2004). Based on cytoarchitectual, hodological, and functional criteria, the MeA was divided into the anterodorsal (MeAD), the anteroventral (MeAV), the MePD, and the posteroventral (MePV) subnuclei (Newman, 1999;Petrovich et al, 2001;de Olmos et al, 2004;Dall'Oglio et al, 2008).…”

“…Based on cytoarchitectual, hodological, and functional criteria, the MeA was divided into the anterodorsal (MeAD), the anteroventral (MeAV), the MePD, and the posteroventral (MePV) subnuclei (Newman, 1999;Petrovich et al, 2001;de Olmos et al, 2004;Dall'Oglio et al, 2008). Taste and visceral sensory information can reach the MeA coming from the pontine parabrachial nucleus (Berthoud, 2002;Knapska et al, 2007).…”

The Ventral Striatopallidum and Extended Amygdala in Huntington Disease

“…In the mammalian basal forebrain, two overlapping systems provide a complex morphological substrate for the investigation of emotion-associated functions (de Olmos et al, 2004;Heimer & Van Hoesen, 2006) and are, therefore, crucial for elucidating the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric diseases. The ventral striatopallidum (VSP) consists of the nucleus accumbens, the olfactory tubercle, the ventral parts of the caudate nucleus and the putamen (caudatoputamen in rodents) and the ventral pallidum, which integrates emotional, cognitive and sensory information and is implicated in linking motivation to behaviour (Heimer et al, 2008;Waraczynski, 2006).…”