Lateralization of amygdala activation: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging studies

D Baas, A Aleman, RS Kahn - Brain Research Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
Functional neuroimaging studies of emotion processing consistently report amygdala
activation. Most of these studies observed lateralized amygdala activity, indicative of a clear
hemisphere-specific processing difference between the left and right amygdalae. Because
individual studies use varying paradigms and are limited by statistical power and sensitivity,
it has remained unclear whether the left or the right amygdala is more consistently involved
in emotional processing. By combining results across 54 fMRI and PET studies in a …