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Study finds that dopamine projections to the amygdala contribute to encoding identity-specific reward memories
Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that dopamine projections to the basolateral amygdala contribute to the encoding of these memories. "The canonical theory of dopamine ...
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Projections from Sweet and Bitter Cortex to Amygdala (IMAGE)
Neural projections from the sweet (green) and bitter (red) cortex terminate at distinct targets in the amygdala in the brains of mice.
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Scientists identify dopamine-rich brain pathways that fuel cocaine-seeking behavior
Therefore, we performed experiments to determine what would happen if we turned off dopamine projections to the amygdala when ...
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The roots of fear: Scientists identify new cell clusters in amygdala for anxiety treatment
The work is published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "The amygdala is central to emotion processing in the brain, and is known to contribute to fear and anxiety," said Drew Fox, associate ...
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Adolescent alcohol exposure promotes mechanical allodynia and alters synaptic function at inputs from the basolateral amygdala to the prelimbic cortex
The prelimbic (PrL) cortex is vulnerable to insult from adolescent alcohol exposure and receives input from the basolateral amygdala (BLA) while sending projections to the ventrolateral periaqueductal ...