Textbook; English Text; English nomenclature with clear description of equivalents to nomenclatures of other authors; thorough descriptions of nuclei based on photomicrographs of cellular (Nissl) and myelin stained coronal sections from the macaque amygdala; summary tables of distribution of some 50 neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, peptides, hormones and other markers; review of connectivity of nuclei of the amygdala.