Happy New Year from Southern St. Joseph County! Pictured here is downtown North Liberty during the holidays in the 1950s. As a resolution, of sorts, I'm going to attempt to update this page more often in 2017. This image, provide by Allen Balsley, is featured in the 2015 book on Southern St. Joseph County, published by Arcadia and the History Press.
Amygdala - Function. 1  The amygdala sends projections to the hypothalamus, the dorsomedial thalamus, the thalamic reticular nucleus, the nuclei of the trigeminal nerve and the facial nerve, the ventral tegmental area, the locus coeruleus, and the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus. [5]
6.1 Amygdala-General Considerations. Amygdala is the integrative center for emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation. If the brain is turned upside down the end of the structure continuous with the hippocampus is called the uncus.If you peel away uncus you will expose the amygdala which abuts the anterior of the hippocampus.elationship of the amygdala to some other brain structures. 6.2 Inputs to the Amygdala. Figure 6.2. Inputs or afferents to the amygdala via the stria terminalis, ventral amygdalofugal pathway, olfactory stria, and directly from temporal lobe structures.