Central Amygdaloid Nucleus

"Central Amygdaloid Nucleus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A nucleus located in the caudal half of the amygdala. It is a primary region involved in controlling responses and receives many intrinsic GABAergic amygdaloid connections.


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  1. Multimodal mapping of cell types and projections in the central nucleus of the amygdala. Elife. 2023 01 20; 12.
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  2. Voluntary and forced exposure to ethanol vapor produces similar escalation of alcohol drinking but differential recruitment of brain regions related to stress, habit, and reward in male rats. Neuropharmacology. 2023 01 01; 222:109309.
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  3. Effects of central amygdala chemogenetic manipulation and prior chronic alcohol exposure on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2022 11; 46(11):1967-1979.
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  4. A central alarm system that gates multi-sensory innate threat cues to the amygdala. Cell Rep. 2022 08 16; 40(7):111222.
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  5. Generation of a CRF1-Cre transgenic rat and the role of central amygdala CRF1 cells in nociception and anxiety-like behavior. Elife. 2022 04 07; 11.
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  6. Divergent brainstem opioidergic pathways that coordinate breathing with pain and emotions. Neuron. 2022 03 02; 110(5):857-873.e9.
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  7. Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens shell attenuates cocaine withdrawal but increases cocaine self-administration, cocaine-induced locomotor activity, and GluR1/GluA1 in the central nucleus of the amygdala in male cocaine-dependent rats. Brain Stimul. 2022 Jan-Feb; 15(1):13-22.
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  8. Incentive motivation: 'wanting' roles of central amygdala circuitry. Behav Brain Res. 2021 08 06; 411:113376.
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  9. The central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain. Nat Commun. 2020 06 01; 11(1):2716.
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  10. Amygdala-Midbrain Connections Modulate Appetitive and Aversive Learning. Neuron. 2020 06 17; 106(6):1026-1043.e9.
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