Dopaminergic modulation of basolateral amygdala for fear extinction
The extinction of conditioned fear responses is crucial for adaptive behavior, and its impairment is a hallmark of anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. During fear extinction learning, a new memory is formed in basolateral amygdala (BLA) reward neurons, which inhibits the BLA fe...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145595 |