“This novel research paper provides anatomical and physiological evidence for the existence of a long-range inhibitory pathway from the auditory cortex to the amygdala in the mouse brain,” Apicella ...

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The researchers also traced the inputs to the LC, identifying two key upstream regions: the bed nucleus of the stria ...

University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two ...

Defining this panicogenic pathway and its relevant signaling molecules points ... nucleus extensively receive inhibitory input from the central nucleus of the amygdala,” said Han. “So, our next ...

Well, it starts with the amygdala, your brain’s built-in alarm ... reshaping the brain’s pathways back to where they were before the anxiety brain changes took hold. And, of course, consistent ...

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The researchers also traced the inputs to the LC, identifying two key upstream regions: the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) and the central amygdala (CeA). Notably, the BNST→LC→ACC pathway ...

Notably, the BNST→LC→ACC pathway was active only during vicarious fear, whereas the CeA→LC→BLA (basolateral amygdala) pathway was involved in both direct and vicarious fear, revealing a ...