The Amygdala and Human Evolution…. A connection???? In 1985, I copyrighted "A Theory of the Control of the Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Homo sapiens by the Interaction of Dehydroepiandrosterone and the Amygdala." I had difficulty researching my ideas regarding DHEA and the amygdala, so I focused on DHEA. Anyway I was pleased to find the following, new article which shows that I may have been on the right path in my selection of the amygdala. Annals of Neurology 2004 Jan; 55(1): 87-96. Baird AD, Wilson SJ, Bladin PF, Saling MM, Reutens DC. School of Behavioural Science, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between the amygdala and neurologically normal subjects. Forty-five patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy who underwent surgical resection in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre completed a semistructured analyses of both amygdalae were conducted on the patients' preoperative T(1)-weighted magnetic resonance imaging scans and those of 46 neurologically significantly larger amygdalar volume contralateral to the site of their subjects. There was a significant positive relationship between contralateral patients undergoing temporal lobe resection. This finding provides evidence for contralateral amygdala may contribute to the expression of increased or improved James Michael Howard www.anthropogeny.com
