While the amygdala is often implicated in the neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD), the pattern of results remains mixed. One reason for this may be the heterogeneity …

Early-life inflammation increases the risk for depression in later life. Here, we demonstrate
how early-life inflammation causes adolescent depressive-like symptoms: by altering the …

Memory formation enables the retention of life experiences overtime. Based on previously
acquired information, organisms can anticipate future events and adjust their behaviors to …

The basolateral amygdala (BLA) plays essential roles in behaviors motivated by stimuli with
either positive or negative valence, but how it processes motivationally opposing information …

Interoception, the sense of internal bodily signals, is essential for physiological homeostasis,
cognition, and emotions. While human insular cortex (InsCtx) is implicated in interoception …

The ability to extinguish conditioned fear memory is critical for adaptive control of fear
response, and its impairment is a hallmark of emotional disorders like post-traumatic stress …

Behavioral adaptation to potential threats requires both a global representation of danger to
prepare the organism to react in a timely manner but also the identification of specific …

Extinction memory retrieval is influenced by spatial contextual information that determines
responding to conditioned stimuli (CS). However, it is poorly understood whether contextual …

The central amygdala (CeA) is implicated in a range of mental processes including attention,
motivation, memory formation and extinction and in behaviours driven by either aversive or …

The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is an evolutionarily conserved brain region, well known for
valence processing. Despite this central role, the relationship between activity of BLA …