Functional neuroanatomy of Pavlovian fear has identified neuronal circuits and synapses
associating conditioned stimuli with aversive events. Hebbian plasticity within these …

Pavlovian fear conditioning depends on synaptic plasticity at amygdala neurons. Here, we
review recent electrophysiological, molecular and behavioral evidence suggesting the …

Overcoming aversive emotional memories requires neural systems that detect when fear
responses are no longer appropriate so that they can be extinguished. The midbrain ventral …

The amygdala is a brain area critical for the formation of fear memories. However, the nature
of the teaching signal (s) that drive plasticity in the amygdala are still under debate. Here, we …

Fear conditioning is a form of associative learning that is known to involve different brain
areas, notably the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex and the periaqueductal grey (PAG). Here …

Aversive experiences powerfully regulate memory formation, and memory strength is
proportional to the intensity of these experiences. Inhibition of the neural circuits that convey …

Fear memories guide adaptive behavior in contexts associated with aversive events. The
hippocampus forms a neural representation of the context that predicts aversive events …

Pavlovian fear conditioning is an evolutionary conserved and extensively studied form of
associative learning and memory. In mammals, the lateral amygdala (LA) is an essential …

It is currently believed that the acquisition of classically conditioned fear involves
potentiation of conditioned thalamic inputs in the lateral amygdala (LA). In turn, LA cells …

In the standard model of pavlovian fear learning, sensory input from neutral and aversive
stimuli converge in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala (LA), in which alterations in synaptic …