Prefrontal inputs to the amygdala instruct fear extinction memory formation

Science advances - Tập 1 Số 6 - 2015
Olena Bukalo1,2, Courtney A. Pinard2, Shana Silverstein1,2, Christina Brehm3, Nolan D. Hartley4, Nigel Whittle3, Giovanni Colacicco2, Erica F. Busch2, Sachin Patel4, Nicolas Singewald3, Andrew Holmes2
1Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
2Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20853, USA.
3Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institute of Pharmacy and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 80-82/III, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
4Department of Psychiatry and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.

Tóm tắt

Traumatic fear memories are extinguished by a discrete brain circuit comprising inputs from the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala.

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