Comparison of the Effects of Bilateral Orbital Prefrontal Cortex Lesions and Amygdala Lesions on Emotional Responses in Rhesus Monkeys

This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health. We thank R. Saunders and the staff of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, for assistance obtaining MR scans, P.-Y. Chen for histological support, and E. Buch and G. Edler for help with behavioral testing.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Alicia Izquierdo, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, 5625 Fishers Lane, Room 2N09, Rockville, MD 20852. E-mail: izquiera{at}mail.nih.gov.

DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1232-05.2005

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