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Prefrontal entrainment of amygdala activity signals safety in learned fear and innate anxiety

Successfully differentiating safety from danger is an essential skill for survival. While decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is associated with fear generalization in animals and humans, the circuit level mechanisms used by the mPFC to discern safety are not clear. To answer t...

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Autores principales: Likhtik, Ekaterina, Stujenske, Joseph M., Topiwala, Mihir A., Harris, Alexander Z., Gordon, Joshua A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24241397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3582