Insular cortical circuits as an executive gateway to decipher threat or extinction memory via distinct subcortical pathways

Ensembles of fear and extinction memories compete and interact to drive opposing behaviors. Here the authors identified insular cortical circuits as an executive gateway that decipher between fear and extinction memories via distinct subcortical pathways.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qi Wang, Jia-Jie Zhu, Lizhao Wang, Yan-Peng Kan, Yan-Mei Liu, Yan-Jiao Wu, Xue Gu, Xin Yi, Ze-Jie Lin, Qin Wang, Jian-Fei Lu, Qin Jiang, Ying Li, Ming-Gang Liu, Nan-Jie Xu, Michael X. Zhu, Lu-Yang Wang, Siyu Zhang, Wei-Guang Li, Tian-Le Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33241-9