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When I organized this conference, I had hoped to accomplish three things: One was to gather together experimental and clinical researchers working on the amygdala who under normal circumstances do not meet each other because of the varied backgrounds of their specialized fields and their varied society affiliations. Second, I had hoped that the idyllic locale of the conference would induce a relaxed environment for maximum interaction among the participants ultimately leading to elucidation of some of the knotty problems associated with the functional role of the amygdala. Third, I had hoped that, in organizing an interdisciplinary meeting with biomedical scientists of varied interests, we would apply a new stimulus to research on the amygdala. Truly, I feel that all three of the original intentions were realized. However, as can be seen in the papers that follow, the general conclusion, as with many other biological phenomena, was that we need extensive and further systematic work, at all levels, into the mechanisms of mediation of amygdaloid functions. This represents only an initial approach into the problems that confront all of us when dealing with experimental work on the amygdala.
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Eleftheriou, B.E. (1972). Introductory Remarks. In: The Neurobiology of the Amygdala. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8987-7_1
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