Elisabeth A Murray

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Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Why is there a special issue on perirhinal cortex in a journal called hippocampus? The perirhinal cortex in historical perspective
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    Hippocampus 22:1941-51. 2012
  2. ncbi Interactions between orbital prefrontal cortex and amygdala: advanced cognition, learned responses and instinctive behaviors
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Building 49, MSC 4415, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 20:212-20. 2010
  3. ncbi What, if anything, can monkeys tell us about human amnesia when they can't say anything at all?
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Neuropsychologia 48:2385-405. 2010
  4. ncbi Perirhinal cortex and its neighbours in the medial temporal lobe: contributions to memory and perception
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4415, USA
    Q J Exp Psychol B 58:378-96. 2005
  5. ncbi Visual perception and memory: a new view of medial temporal lobe function in primates and rodents
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    Annu Rev Neurosci 30:99-122. 2007
  6. ncbi What we know and do not know about the functions of the orbitofrontal cortex after 20 years of cross-species studies
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 27:8166-9. 2007
  7. ncbi The amygdala, reward and emotion
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Trends Cogn Sci 11:489-97. 2007
  8. ncbi Orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala contributions to affect and action in primates
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1121:273-96. 2007
  9. ncbi Distinct contributions of the amygdala and hippocampus to fear expression
    Yogita Chudasama
    Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Section, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 30:2327-37. 2009
  10. ncbi Dissociable effects of subtotal lesions within the macaque orbital prefrontal cortex on reward-guided behavior
    Peter H Rudebeck
    Section on Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 31:10569-78. 2011

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Publications49

  1. ncbi Why is there a special issue on perirhinal cortex in a journal called hippocampus? The perirhinal cortex in historical perspective
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    Hippocampus 22:1941-51. 2012
    ..2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc...
  2. ncbi Interactions between orbital prefrontal cortex and amygdala: advanced cognition, learned responses and instinctive behaviors
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Building 49, MSC 4415, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 20:212-20. 2010
    ..A role for PFo in advanced cognition, for the amygdala in instinctive behavior, and for cortex-subcortex interactions in prioritizing behaviors provides one account for these findings...
  3. ncbi What, if anything, can monkeys tell us about human amnesia when they can't say anything at all?
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Neuropsychologia 48:2385-405. 2010
    ....
  4. ncbi Perirhinal cortex and its neighbours in the medial temporal lobe: contributions to memory and perception
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4415, USA
    Q J Exp Psychol B 58:378-96. 2005
  5. ncbi Visual perception and memory: a new view of medial temporal lobe function in primates and rodents
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    Annu Rev Neurosci 30:99-122. 2007
    ..In both primates and rodents, the hippocampus contributes to the memory and perception of places and paths, whereas the perirhinal cortex does so for objects and the contents of scenes...
  6. ncbi What we know and do not know about the functions of the orbitofrontal cortex after 20 years of cross-species studies
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 27:8166-9. 2007
    ..These similarities suggest that OFC function can be usefully modeled in nonhuman and even nonprimate species. Here, we review some of these similarities...
  7. ncbi The amygdala, reward and emotion
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Trends Cogn Sci 11:489-97. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi Orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala contributions to affect and action in primates
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1121:273-96. 2007
    ..Both regions contribute to the expression of defensive responses to a potential predator. Contrary to the prevailing view, the amygdala and OFC make distinct contributions to emotional responses and reward processing...
  9. ncbi Distinct contributions of the amygdala and hippocampus to fear expression
    Yogita Chudasama
    Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Section, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 30:2327-37. 2009
    ..These data show that the hippocampus and amygdala contribute independently to the overall expression of defensive responses...
  10. ncbi Dissociable effects of subtotal lesions within the macaque orbital prefrontal cortex on reward-guided behavior
    Peter H Rudebeck
    Section on Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 31:10569-78. 2011
    ..Our data indicate that anatomically defined subregions within macaque PFo make dissociable contributions to reward-guided behavior...
  11. ncbi Perirhinal cortex removal dissociates two memory systems in matching-to-sample performance in rhesus monkeys
    Hsiao Wei Tu
    Department of Psychology and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
    J Neurosci 31:16336-43. 2011
    ..PDP can be applied in monkeys in a way that parallels its use in humans, providing a new tool for investigating the neurobiology of memory in nonhuman animals and for comparing memory across species...
  12. ncbi Functional interaction of medial mediodorsal thalamic nucleus but not nucleus accumbens with amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex is essential for adaptive response selection after reinforcer devaluation
    Alicia Izquierdo
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
    J Neurosci 30:661-9. 2010
    ..In contrast, monkeys that sustained MDm disconnection failed to adjust their object choices. Thus, MDm, but not NA, works together with the amygdala and PFo to support reward-based decision making...
  13. ncbi Opposing effects of amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex lesions on the extinction of instrumental responding in macaque monkeys
    Alicia Izquierdo
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 22:2341-6. 2005
    ..For comparison, we evaluated the effects of ablation of PFo on the same task. Amygdala lesions facilitated the extinction of instrumental responses, whereas lesions of PFo had the opposite effect...
  14. ncbi Impairments in visual discrimination after perirhinal cortex lesions: testing 'declarative' vs. 'perceptual-mnemonic' views of perirhinal cortex function
    Timothy J Bussey
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Convent Drive, Building 49, Room 1880, MSC4415, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 17:649-60. 2003
    ..These and other recent findings suggest the need for a revision of prevailing views regarding the neural organization of perception and memory...
  15. ncbi Combined unilateral lesions of the amygdala and orbital prefrontal cortex impair affective processing in rhesus monkeys
    Alicia Izquierdo
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurophysiol 91:2023-39. 2004
    ....
  16. ncbi Hippocampal lesions in rhesus monkeys disrupt emotional responses but not reinforcer devaluation effects
    Yogita Chudasama
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 63:1084-91. 2008
    ..Although the role of the hippocampus in emotional behavior has long been recognized, the extent to which the hippocampus plays a role in the regulation and expression of emotion in rhesus monkeys has not been systematically explored...
  17. ncbi Selective ablations reveal that orbital and lateral prefrontal cortex play different roles in estimating predicted reward value
    Janine M Simmons
    National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    J Neurosci 30:15878-87. 2010
    ..L-PFC appears necessary for integration of predicted reward value across these different scales...
  18. ncbi Comparison of the effects of bilateral orbital prefrontal cortex lesions and amygdala lesions on emotional responses in rhesus monkeys
    Alicia Izquierdo
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 25:8534-42. 2005
    ..In addition, they point to a divergence of the roles of the PFo and amygdala in responding to a social stimulus, the human intruder...
  19. ncbi Localization of dysfunction in major depressive disorder: prefrontal cortex and amygdala
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 69:e43-54. 2011
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  20. ncbi What, if anything, is the medial temporal lobe, and how can the amygdala be part of it if there is no such thing?
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Building 49, Room 1B80, MSC 4415, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Neurobiol Learn Mem 82:178-98. 2004
    ..The empirical neuropsychological evidence favors the balkanization theory, as do some new concepts in theoretical neuroanatomy...
  21. ncbi Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in complex visual discriminations
    Timothy J Bussey
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Convent Drive, Building 49, Room 1880, MSC4415, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 15:365-74. 2002
    ..These results confirm the predictions of the PMFC model, and force a reconsideration of prevailing views regarding perirhinal cortex function...
  22. ncbi Interaction of ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex with inferotemporal cortex in conditional visuomotor learning
    Timothy J Bussey
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
    Behav Neurosci 116:703-15. 2002
    ..In addition to those associations, which might be considered lower order rules for choosing a response, frontotemporal interaction also appears to be important for higher order rules, such as those involved in the matching task...
  23. ncbi Interaction between orbital prefrontal and rhinal cortex is required for normal estimates of expected value
    Andrew M Clark
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 33:1833-45. 2013
    ..These results support a model whereby information about rewards signaled in PFo is combined with associative and contextual information signaled within Rh to estimate expected value...
  24. ncbi Balkanizing the primate orbitofrontal cortex: distinct subregions for comparing and contrasting values
    Peter H Rudebeck
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1239:1-13. 2011
    ..The medial OFC reduces these contrasting representations of value to a single dimension, a common currency, in order to compare alternative choices...
  25. ncbi Amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex lesions differentially influence choices during object reversal learning
    Peter H Rudebeck
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 28:8338-43. 2008
    ..These findings demonstrate that the OFC and AMG make different contributions to object reversal learning not highlighted previously...
  26. ncbi Selective hippocampal damage in rhesus monkeys impairs spatial memory in an open-field test
    Robert R Hampton
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
    Hippocampus 14:808-18. 2004
    ..In Experiment 4, probe trials using symmetrical test arrays found no evidence for egocentric coding of the rewarded location...
  27. ncbi Genetic modulation of cognitive flexibility and socioemotional behavior in rhesus monkeys
    Alicia Izquierdo
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:14128-33. 2007
    ..Because behaviors modulated by the 5-HTTLPR are a subset of those dependent on the VMPFC, analysis of structural and functional correlates of gene variation in this region may inform the nature of the genetic modulation of cognition...
  28. ncbi Bilateral orbital prefrontal cortex lesions in rhesus monkeys disrupt choices guided by both reward value and reward contingency
    Alicia Izquierdo
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
    J Neurosci 24:7540-8. 2004
    ....
  29. ncbi Prospective memory in the formation of learning sets by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
    Elisabeth A Murray
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 32:87-90. 2006
    ..Confirming their expectation, the authors found no indication of learning-set formation under these conditions...
  30. ncbi Amygdala lesions disrupt modulation of functional MRI activity evoked by facial expression in the monkey inferior temporal cortex
    Fadila Hadj-Bouziane
    Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:E3640-8. 2012
    ..Moreover, these modulatory effects are consistent with an anterior-to-posterior gradient of projections, as suggested by classical tracer studies...
  31. ncbi Amygdala lesions in rhesus monkeys fail to disrupt object choices based on internal context
    Sarah E V Rhodes
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Behav Neurosci 126:270-8. 2012
    ..We conclude that the involvement of the amygdala in selective-satiation tasks, which depends in part on a change in internal context, is not due to the amygdala playing a general role in representing, or using, internal context...
  32. ncbi An assessment of memory awareness in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)
    Benjamin M Basile
    National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Anim Cogn 12:169-80. 2009
    ..None of the five monkeys looked more often on unseen trials. These findings provide equivocal evidence for memory awareness in capuchin monkeys using tests that have yielded clear evidence in humans, apes, and rhesus monkeys...
  33. ncbi Selective bilateral amygdala lesions in rhesus monkeys fail to disrupt object reversal learning
    Alicia Izquierdo
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 27:1054-62. 2007
    ..Second, the results implicate a critical contribution to object reversal learning of structures nearby the amygdala, perhaps the subjacent rhinal cortex...
  34. ncbi Method for making selective lesions of the hippocampus in macaque monkeys using NMDA and a longitudinal surgical approach
    Robert R Hampton
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    Hippocampus 14:9-18. 2004
    ..Finally, the new surgical approach may provide a mechanism for infusing agents into the hippocampus from a single cannula...
  35. ncbi Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) discriminate between knowing and not knowing and collect information as needed before acting
    Robert R Hampton
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 4415, USA
    Anim Cogn 7:239-46. 2004
    ..This result extends similar observations made of children and apes to a species of Old World monkey, suggesting that the underlying cognitive capacities may be widely distributed among primates...
  36. ncbi DNA targeting of rhinal cortex D2 receptor protein reversibly blocks learning of cues that predict reward
    Zheng Liu
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, and Behavioral Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:12336-41. 2004
    ..The specificity of the receptor manipulation reported here suggests that this approach could be generalized in this or other brain pathways to relate molecular mechanisms to cognitive functions...
  37. ncbi Learning of discriminations is impaired, but generalization to altered views is intact, in monkeys (Macaca mulatta) with perirhinal cortex removal
    Robert R Hampton
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 4415, USA
    Behav Neurosci 116:363-77. 2002
    ..These results indicate an important role for perirhinal cortex in visual learning, memory, or both, and show that under a variety of conditions, perirhinal cortex is not critical for the identification of stimuli...
  38. ncbi Effects of combined and separate removals of rostral dorsal superior temporal sulcus cortex and perirhinal cortex on visual recognition memory in rhesus monkeys
    Wendy S Hadfield
    Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurophysiol 90:2419-27. 2003
    ..We conclude that STSd is not critically involved in visual recognition memory...
  39. ncbi Fornix transection impairs conditional visuomotor learning in tasks involving nonspatially differentiated responses
    Peter J Brasted
    Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurophysiol 87:631-3. 2002
    ..These findings challenge the view that the hippocampal system participates in associative learning only when spatial information is relevant to either the stimulus or the response...
  40. ncbi Differential effects of amygdala, orbital prefrontal cortex, and prelimbic cortex lesions on goal-directed behavior in rhesus macaques
    Sarah E V Rhodes
    Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    J Neurosci 33:3380-9. 2013
    ..Notably, the findings for PFo challenge the idea that orbital and medial prefrontal regions are exclusively dedicated to object- and action-based processes, respectively...
  41. ncbi The amygdala and reward
    Mark G Baxter
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 906 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Nat Rev Neurosci 3:563-73. 2002
    ..Indeed, the amygdala's role in stimulus-reward learning might be just as important as its role in processing negative affect and fear conditioning...
  42. ncbi Perceptual deficits in amnesia: challenging the medial temporal lobe 'mnemonic' view
    Andy C H Lee
    MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, UK
    Neuropsychologia 43:1-11. 2005
    ..These novel observations imply that the human MTL subserves both perceptual and mnemonic functions, with the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex playing distinct roles in spatial and object discrimination, respectively...
  43. ncbi The perceptual-mnemonic/feature conjunction model of perirhinal cortex function
    Timothy J Bussey
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
    Q J Exp Psychol B 58:269-82. 2005
    ....
  44. ncbi Functional specialization in the human medial temporal lobe
    Morgan D Barense
    Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 25:10239-46. 2005
    ..These findings resolve contradictions between published studies in humans and animals and introduce a new way of characterizing the impairments that arise after damage to the MTL...
  45. ncbi Impairment and facilitation of transverse patterning after lesions of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus, respectively
    Lisa M Saksida
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Cereb Cortex 17:108-15. 2007
    ..These results are, however, compatible with a view that perirhinal cortex, and not the hippocampus, contains complex configural representations of visual stimuli critical to the solution of the transverse-patterning task...
  46. ncbi No effect of hippocampal lesions on perirhinal cortex-dependent feature-ambiguous visual discriminations
    Lisa M Saksida
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Hippocampus 16:421-30. 2006
    ..The findings support the perceptual-mnemonic/feature conjunction model of perirhinal cortex function, and provide further evidence for heterogeneity of function within the putative medial temporal lobe memory system...
  47. ncbi Perirhinal cortex and feature-ambiguous discriminations
    Timothy J Bussey
    Learn Mem 13:103-5; author reply 106-7. 2006
  48. ncbi Linking affect to action: critical contributions of the orbitofrontal cortex. Preface
    Geoffrey Schoenbaum
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1121:xi-xiii. 2007
  49. ncbi Total number, distribution, and phenotype of cells expressing chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in the normal human amygdala
    Harry Pantazopoulos
    Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
    Brain Res 1207:84-95. 2008
    ..These results suggest that astrocytes are the main cell type expressing CSPGs in the adult human amygdala. Their highly segregated distribution pattern suggests that these cells serve specialized functions within human amygdalar nuclei...