Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis regulates fear to unpredictable threat signals
The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) has been implicated in conditioned fear and anxiety, but the specific factors that engage the BNST in defensive behaviors are unclear. Here we examined whether the BNST mediates freezing to conditioned stimuli (CSs) that poorly predict the onset of aver...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2019-04-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/46525 |