Ventral amygdalofugal pathway as an integrated surgically important network: microsurgical anatomy and segmentation based on fiber dissection.

This study supports the concept that interconnected forebrain, diencephalic, mesencephalic, and brainstem connections of the VAFP form an integrated surgically important network. The fiber dissection findings also provide the neuroanatomical basis for VAFP segmentation, which may help neurosurgeons better appreciate the complex microsurgical anatomy of the amygdalar connections. Amygdala-substantia innominata and amygdalotegmental connections are demonstrated for the first time and clarified within the structure of the VAFP.