杏仁体过去称杏仁核,是一团形如“杏仁”的灰质结构。在一般传统解教科书中将其列入端脑内基底神经节部份叙述。过去发现它与嗅觉有直接的联系,因此被视作嗅觉组成部分。后来又发现杏仁核还接受大量非嗅觉传入传出纤维联系,结构复杂,故又命名为杏仁复合体及杏仁核簇者。Maclean(52)总结了生理学及心理学的资料,并结合了种系发生和细胞结构等方面的研究之后,在第一次提出边缘系统的概念中就 Almond past the amygdala, is a mass of “almonds” gray matter structure. It is included in the cerebellum basal ganglia in the general traditional textbook. In the past it was found to have a direct relationship with the sense of smell and was therefore considered part of the sense of smell. Later found that almonds also accept a large number of non-olfactory afferent fiber connection, the structure is complex, it is also named almond complex and amygdala cluster. Maclean (52) summarized the physiology and psychology data, and combined with the study of germline occurrence and cell structure, etc., in the concept of the first proposed edge system