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In recent years, great interest has been focused on the field of neurobiology. In the last decade, various international and regional meetings, symposia, seminars and workshops have been organized to discuss brain regions such as the hypothalamus, cerebel

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ADVANCES IN BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY EdItorial Board: Jan Bures

Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Irwin Kopin

Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Bruce McEwen

Department of Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York

James McGaugh

Department of Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, California

Karl Pribram

Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

Jay Rosenblatt

Institute of Animal Behavior, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

Lawrence Weiskrantz

Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

Volume 1 • BRAIN CHEMISTRY AND MENTAL DISEASE Edited by Beng T. Ho and William M. Mcisaac· 1971 Volume 2 • THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE AMYGDALA Edited by Basil E. Eleftheriou • 1972 Volume 3 • AGING AND THE BRAIN Edited by Charles M. Gaitz· 1972

THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE AMYGDALA The Proceedings of a Symposium on the Neurobiology of the Amygdala, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 6-17,1971

Basil E. Eleftheriou Staff SCientist The Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor, Maine

~ PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK-LONDON • 1972

First Printing - May 1972 Second Printing - May 1976

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-188921 ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-8989-1 001: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8987-7 @

e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-8987-7

1972 Plenum Press, New York

softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1972 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 227 West 17th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011 United Kingdom edition published by Plenum Press, London A Division of Plenum Publishing Company, Ltd. Davis House (4th Floor), 8 Scrubs Lane, Harlesden, London, NW10, SSE, England All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher

In Memory Geoffrey W. Harris and Tryphena Humphrey

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Editor wishes to express his sincere appreciation and gratitude to Dr. Earl L. Green, Director, The Jackson Laboratory, for his support; Mr. Thomas Hyde and Mrs. Susan Myers for their untiring efforts in various phases of the Conference. Sincere thanks are extended also to Dr. R. L. Norman, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, and Dr. Mark Krista1, The Jackson Laboratory, for assistance in compiling this volume. Finally, appreciation and gratitude are expressed to the speakers and all other participants who came to Bar Harbor from all corners of our globe, often with very little or no direct financial support from the Conference. Truly, all were amygda10phi1es above and beyond the call of duty.

PREFACE

In recent years, great interest has been focused on the field of neurobiology. In the last decade, various international and regional meetings, symposia, seminars and workshops have been organized to discuss brain regions such as the hypothalamus, cerebellum, medulla, cortex and hippocampus. A number of books have been published as a consequence of these gatherings. Uniquely and singularly abse