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David G. Amaral

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and The MIND Institute, UC Davis
Verified email at ucdavis.edu
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The three-dimensional organization of the hippocampal formation: a review of anatomical data

DG Amaral, MP Witter - Neuroscience, 1989 - Elsevier
In the early 1970s, Andersen and colleagues proposed that the principal excitatory pathways
of the hippocampal formation were organized in a lamellar fashion. This proposition, based …

Human amnesia and the medial temporal region: enduring memory impairment following a bilateral lesion limited to field CA1 of the hippocampus

S Zola-Morgan, LR Squire, DG Amaral - Journal of neuroscience, 1986 - Soc Neuroscience
During the past 100 years clinical studies of amnesia have linked memory impairment to
damage of the hippocampus. Yet the damage in these cases has not usually been confined to …

Neuroanatomy of autism

DG Amaral, CM Schumann, CW Nordahl - Trends in neurosciences, 2008 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorder is a heterogeneous, behaviorally defined, neurodevelopmental
disorder that occurs in 1 in 150 children. Individuals with autism have deficits in social …

Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents

…, E Kan, JM Kuperman, N Akshoomoff, DG Amaral… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Socioeconomic disparities are associated with differences in cognitive development. The
extent to which this translates to disparities in brain structure is unclear. We investigated …

Perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices of the macaque monkey: cortical afferents

WL Suzuki, DG Amaral - Journal of comparative neurology, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Neuropsychological studies have recently demonstrated that the macaque monkey perirhinal
(areas 35 and 36) and parahippocampal (areas TH and TF) cortices contribute importantly …

Three cases of enduring memory impairment after bilateral damage limited to the hippocampal formation

…, SM Zola, LR Squire, DG Amaral - Journal of …, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
Patient RB (Human amnesia and the medial temporal region: enduring memory impairment
following a bilaterial lesion limited to field CA1 of the hippocampus, S. Zola-Morgan, LR…

Hippocampal‐neocortical interaction: A hierarchy of associativity

P Lavenex, DG Amaral - Hippocampus, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The structures forming the medial temporal lobe appear to be necessary for the
establishment of long‐term declarative memory. In particular, they may be involved in the “consolidation” …

A Golgi study of cell types in the hilar region of the hippocampus in the rat

DG Amaral - Journal of Comparative Neurology, 1978 - Wiley Online Library
The morphology of neurons in the “hilar region” of the hippocampus (fields CA 3c and CA 4
of Lorente de Nó, '34) was analyzed with several variants of the Golgi technique. …

The amygdala is enlarged in children but not adolescents with autism; the hippocampus is enlarged at all ages

…, CR Lammers, AL Reiss, DG Amaral - Journal of …, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in reciprocal social
interaction, deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and a restricted repertoire of …

Organization of intrahippocampal projections originating from CA3 pyramidal cells in the rat

N Ishizuka, J Weber, DG Amaral - Journal of comparative …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of intrahippocampal projections arising from the CA3 region of the rat
hippocampus was investigated using in vitro and in vivo methods. In the in vitro hippocampal slice …