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Ventromedial hypothalamic neurons control a defensive emotion state

Defensive behaviors reflect underlying emotion states, such as fear. The hypothalamus plays a role in such behaviors, but prevailing textbook views depict it as an effector of upstream emotion centers, such as the amygdala, rather than as an emotion center itself. We used optogenetic manipulations t...

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Autores principales: Kunwar, Prabhat S, Zelikowsky, Moriel, Remedios, Ryan, Cai, Haijiang, Yilmaz, Melis, Meister, Markus, Anderson, David J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25748136
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06633