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Basomedial amygdala mediates top-down control of anxiety and fear
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15698Abstract
Activation of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex–basomedial amygdala pathway is shown to suppress anxiety and fear-related freezing in mice, thus identifying the basomedial amygdala (and not intercalated cells, as posited by earlier models) as a novel target of top-down control.
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