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Gating of Fear in Prelimbic Cortex by Hippocampal and Amygdala Inputs

Francisco Sotres-Bayon, Demetrio Sierra-Mercado, Enmanuelle Pardilla-Delgado, Gregory J. Quirk
Neuron. 2012 Nov 21;76(4):804-12. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.09.028.

Highlights

• In behaving rats, BLA excites projection cells and vHPC excites interneurons in PL
• BLA promotes fear-signaling in PL, whereas vHPC inhibits it
• vHPC inhibits fear expression after, but not before, extinction
• vHPC gates fear expression via the PL after, but not before, extinction

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