Aspiration lesions of the amygdala disrupt the rhinal corticothalamic projection system in rhesus monkeys

Experimental Brain Research
S GouletE A Murray

Abstract

In macaque monkeys, aspiration but not excitotoxic lesions of the medial temporal lobe limbic structures, the amygdala and hippocampus, produce a severe impairment in visual recognition memory. Furthermore, certain ventromedial cortical regions, namely the rhinal (i.e., entorhinal and perirhinal) cortex, are now known to be critical for visual recognition memory. Because the route taken by temporal cortical efferent fibers, especially perirhinal efferents, passes nearby the amygdala, it is possible that inadvertent damage to these fibers is produced by the aspirative but not the excitotoxic process, thereby accounting at least in part for the different behavioral outcomes of the two types of lesion. To test this idea, we assessed the integrity of the rhinal corticothalamic projection system after aspiration lesions of the amygdala. Three rhesus monkeys with unilateral amygdala removals received bilaterally symmetrical injections of a retrograde fluorescent tracer into the medial portion of the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus. Retrogradely labeled cells were identified using conventional fluorescence microscopy techniques. In all three cases, the rhinal cortex of the intact hemispheres contained moderate numbers of retrograd...Continue Reading

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