Ventral hippocampus interacts with prelimbic cortex during inhibition of threat response via learned safety in both mice and humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 116, Issue 52, 2019, Pages 26970-26979

  Meyer, Heidi C ^a   Odriozola, Paola ^b   Cohodes, Emily M ^b   Mandell, Jeffrey D ^b   Li, Anfei ^a   Yang, Ruirong ^a   Hall, Baila S ^c   Haberman, Jason T ^b   Zacharek, Sadie J ^b   Liston, Conor ^a,d   Lee, Francis S ^a   Gee, Dylan G ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FEIL FAMILY BRAIN AND MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conditioned inhibition; Hippocampus; Safety learning; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONED INHIBITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; FEAR; FREEZING; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SAFETY LEARNING; THREAT; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 85077310057     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910481116     Document Type: Article

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