Ventromedial hypothalamic neurons control a defensive emotion state

Defensive behaviors reflect underlying emotion states, such as fear. The hypothalamus plays a role in such behaviors, but prevailing textbook views depict it as an effector of upstream emotion centers, such as the amygdala, rather than as an emotion center itself. We used optogenetic manipulations t...

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Published in:eLife
Main Authors: Kunwar, Prabhat S, Zelikowsky, Moriel, Remedios, Ryan, Cai, Haijiang, Yilmaz, Melis, Meister, Markus, Anderson, David J
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
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Neuroscience
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379496/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25748136
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06633
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