Specialized nerve cells in brain region responsible for emotional memory play important role in fear learning

Posted by on July 14, 2016 5:52 pm
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The function of sparse population of inhibitory neurons in memory encoding has been explained in a new article. The study focused on identifying the synaptic connections between inhibitory PV-INs, sensory pathways and neighboring principal neurons in the basolateral amygdala, a brain region involved in detecting and responding to dangerous situations.

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