Rebecca Dautoff

TL;DR: It is found that amygdala volume correlates with the size and complexity of social networks in adult humans, and associations between social network variables and cortical thickness in three cortical areas are associated with amygdala connectivity.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the magnitude of amygdala atrophy is comparable to that of the hippocampus in the earliest clinical stages of AD, and is related to global illness severity.

TL;DR: A novel study testing a constructionist model of the mind in which participants generated three kinds of mental states while they measured activity within large-scale distributed brain networks using fMRI, and examined the similarity and differences in the pattern of network activity across these three classes ofmental states.

TL;DR: Although there were no age-related differences in the peak response of the amygdala to novelty, older individuals showed a narrower, sharper (i.e., “peakier”) hemodynamic time course in response to novel stimuli, as well as decreased connectivity between the left amygdala and the affective areas including orbito-frontal regions.

TL;DR: The gender of participants was reversed and the gender of one participant was mislabeled, and the correct demographics are 37 female and 21 male participants, with concomitant changes to the values in Table 1.