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She recently correlated amygdala volume with the size of a person's social network.
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The areas where this volume increase were seen include the hypothalamus (which is associated with maternal motivation), the prefrontal cortex (which is associated with judgment and reasoning), and the amygdala (which is associated with emotional processing).
The researchers found that in patients with SAD, brain volume and activity in the amygdala decrease as a result of ICBT.
A larger network of Facebook friends correlates with a greater volume of gray matter in the amygdala, an emotion - processing region, according to a recent study.
Compared to controls, patients with schizophrenia demonstrated smaller bilateral hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus and accumbens volumes as well as intracranial volume, but larger bilateral caudate, putamen, pallidum and lateral ventricle volumes.
Specifically, individuals diagnosed with major depression have smaller hippocampal and amygdala volumes (34,35), structural and morphological changes in the prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex (22), and basal ganglia structures (6).
In a separate group of healthy individuals, they used genotyping and neuroimaging to examine potential genetic associations with amygdala volume in 1048 subjects and amygdala function in a subset of more than 100 subjects.
Poverty was associated with smaller white and cortical gray matter and hippocampal and amygdala volumes.
Stress paradigms in rodent models have been associated with elevated anxiety and contrasting alterations in neuronal morphology in the hippocampus and amygdala, with dendritic atrophy observed in the hippocampus and increased dendritic arborization in the amygdala.12, 13 Developing rodents deprived of maternal nurturance show decreased hippocampal volume and altered stress reactivity.14 An epigenetic mechanism for this effect has been elaborated.15 Importantly, controlled trials that have randomized institutionalized toddlers to early therapeutic foster care vs institutionalization have documented the deleterious effects of early relative deprivation on cognitive outcomes.16
We thank Michael I. Miller, PhD, and Tilak Ratnanather, PhD, of the Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, for their technical assistance and insights with the implementation of the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping to quantify the hippocampus and amygdala volumes.
A recent fMRI study showed that the MAOA genotype at risk for impulsivity and violent behavior is associated with reduced gray matter volumes in limbic regions such as the amygdala, dorsal anterior cingulated cortex (dACC), and subgenual ACC and greater amygdala and subgenual ACC responsivity to negative emotional faces [25].
Preliminary evidence for persistent abnormalities in amygdala volumes in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder
Smaller amygdala volumes have been found among youths with disruptive behavior disorders which could also contribute to findings showing diminished reward sensitivity among these youths [84, 85, 86].
Magnetic resonance imaging of HPC and amygdala volume in women with childhood abuse and borderline personality disorder
A negative correlation between aggressiveness and local gray matter volume in the left amygdala has been reported for adolescents with conduct disorder (Sterzer et al., 2007).