ABSTRACT

Abstract ..................................................................................................................311 15.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................312 15.2 The Amygdala: Built to Modulate...............................................................312 15.3 Human Subject Studies Relating Amygdala Activity to Emotional

Memory ........................................................................................................314 15.4 An Aside on Sex Differences in the Brain..................................................315 15.5 Sex-Related Influences on Amygdala Relation to Memory for Emotional

Events ...........................................................................................................316 15.6 Sex Differences in Human Amygdala Functional Connectivity

at Rest...........................................................................................................318 15.7 Potential Relationship of Sex-Related Amygdala Hemispheric

Specialization to Hemispheric Global and Local Processing Bias.............319 15.8 Some Implications for Disease States .........................................................320 15.9 Summary ......................................................................................................322 Acknowledgment ...................................................................................................322 References..............................................................................................................322

The advent of human brain imaging techniques (PET, fMRI) has allowed previously unimaginable examination of human brain functions including studies of the mechanisms underlying memory for emotional events. Many of these studies have been guided by findings from animal research that identified the amygdala as a key candidate brain region crucial to emotional memory. Evidence from human brain imaging studies has robustly confirmed this conclusion. At the same time, it has