The amygdala and reward

By Mark G. Baxter, Elisabeth A. Murray. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging (2010, background): “Although the amygdala has been prominently implicated in fear learning in animal studies (LeDoux, 2000), other animal studies have also implicated the amygdala in reward processing F particularly when previously rewarding stimuli are devalued (Baxter and Murray, 2002).”
Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities (2009, background): “The basolateral complex is densely connected with the inferior prefrontal cortex (Baxter and Murray, 2002), another region in which reduced volumes have been reported in youth with ADHD (Sowell, Thompson, et al.”
Anatomy of a decision: striato-orbitofrontal interactions in reinforcement learning, decision making, and reversal. (2006, background): “The OFC receives magnitude information from the ABL and reflects this moderate gain with increased medial and decreased lateral activity, relative to the choice phase.”
The neuroimaging of emotion. (2008, positive): “…cues associated with reward (Cador, Robbins, & Everitt, 1989; Everitt, Cador, & Robbins, 1989; Everitt et al., 1999) and the short-term updating of the reward-value of cues in context (Baxter & Murray, 2002; Schoenbaum, Chiba, & Gallagher, 1998; Schoenbaum, Setlow, Saddoris, & Gallagher, 2003).”
High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging reveals nuclei of the human amygdala: manual segmentation to automatic atlas (2017, background): “For example, the lateral (La) and basal (Ba) nuclei are engaged in updating current stimulus value associations, primarily through connections with orbitofrontal regions (Baxter and Murray, 2002); the central nucleus (Ce) is believed to mediate behavioral responses to potentially harmful stimuli and”
The roles of the amygdala in the affective regulation of body, brain, and behaviour (2010, background): “represent the main neural substrate where the S–R associations acquired through instrumental conditioning are stored (Barto 1995; Bar-Gad, Morris, and Bergman 2003; Yin and Knowlton 2006), whereas Amg represents the main neural substrate where the associations acquired through Pavlovian conditioning”
Empathic dysfunction in psychopathic individuals (2007, background): “The amygdala is involved in the formation of stimulus–reward and stimulus–punishment associations; animals with amygdala lesions show impairment in both reward- and punishment-related behaviour (Baxter & Murray, 2002).”
A neurobehavioral model of affiliative bonding: implications for conceptualizing a human trait of affiliation. (2005, background): “…amygdala has often been viewed as associating negative emotions with reinforcement, recent evidence supports a role for the amygdala in processing positive emotions as well as negative ones, including the learning of stimulus-reward associations (Baxter & Murray 2002; Gottfried et al. 2003).”
A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion (2005, positive): “In animals, the amygdala is implicated in learning and processing the reward values of external events (for review see Baxter & Murray, 2002).”
Cortical and limbic activation during viewing of high- versus low-calorie foods (2003, background): “central nucleus may be responsible for engaging approach and withdrawal behaviors to potential food sources, whereas the basolateral complex serves to evaluate the current reinforcement value of available food items given the immediate physiological status of the organism and guides response selecti”
The Neural Mechanisms of Moral Cognition: A Multiple-Aspect Approach to Moral Judgment and Decision-Making (2003, positive): “Converging results from lesions studies and imaging studies indicate that ventromedial (VM) prefrontal damage is consistently associated with impairments in practical decision-making, moral decision-making, emotion, and feeling (see for example, Saver and Damasio (1991), Damasio (1994), Bechara et a”
Predictors of amygdala activation during the processing of emotional stimuli: a meta-analysis of 385 PET and fMRI studies. (2008, background): “In rodents, the amygdala has been demonstrated to play a role in emotional learning of positive associations (reviewed in Holland and Gallagher, 2004; Baxter and Murray, 2002) and in sexual behavior (Zald, 2003).”
The social neuroscience of intergroup relations (2008, background): “…interpretations of the amygdala began to get more complicated as studies found that it also became activated in response to positive stimuli and, more generally, when a participant was anticipating either a reward or punishment (Baxter & Murray, 2002; Paton, Belova, Morrison, & Salzman, 2006).”