6.1 Amygdala-General Considerations. Amygdala is the integrative center for emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation. If the brain is turned upside down the end of the structure continuous with the hippocampus is called the uncus.If you peel away uncus you will expose the amygdala which abuts the anterior of the hippocampus.xpression of different emotional responses by the amygdala. Some pathways of fear conditioning have been discovered and this is a hot research topic in neuroscience. If the auditory cortex pathway is lesioned, for example, basic fear conditioning is unaltered, but discrimination is altered.