Abstract
Kindling of the mammalian limbic system has been suggested as a model of epileptogenesis in complex partial seizure disorder2 (CPS). The most commonly agreed upon problems of an affective nature associated with epilepsy are anxiety and depression2,42,87. An extensive literature implicates the amygdala in the production of fearful and anxiety related states in animals and humans. It is of interest, then, that anterior temporal lobectomy in human epileptics resecting the amygdala and the anterior hippocampus reduces a preexisting anxiety disorder43. Data like these, and a great deal of other data1, implicate alteration of amygdala functioning in affective disturbance in epilepsy.
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Adamec, R. (1998). Amygdala Kindling and Rodent Anxiety. In: Corcoran, M.E., Moshé, S.L. (eds) Kindling 5. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 48. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5375-5_24
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