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The Emotional Brain, Fear, and the Amygdala

Joseph E LeDoux

2003.10.1CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

DOI: 10.1023/a:1025048802629

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Research on the role of the amygdala in fear conditioning, a behavioral procedure used to couple meaningless environmental stimuli to emotional (defense) response networks, concludes that the amygdala plays critical role in linking external stimuli to defense responses.

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LEDOUX, Joseph E. The emotional brain, fear, and the amygdala. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY, 2003, 23: 727–738.