Memory and anxiety-like behavior of rats in the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task: Role of serotonergic transmission in the basolateral amygdala.

JPF Kurita, AHFF Leão, VS Bioni… - Behavioral …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Optimal levels of anxiety are critical to memory consolidation, but maladaptive anxiety can
disrupt memory acquisition. Serotonergic activity within the amygdala influences both …

Dissociable contributions of the amygdala and ventral hippocampus to stress-induced changes in defensive behavior

ZT Pennington, AR LaBanca, P Sompolpong… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Background Severe stress can produce multiple persistent changes in defensive behavior
relevant to psychiatric illness. While much is known about the circuits supporting stress …

[PDF][PDF] The same subnuclei of the amygdala are activated when fear contagion occurs between humans and between humans and rats: PhD thesis

AM Kaźmierowska - 2023 - rcin.org.pl
Fear contagion is an automatic process of aligning one animal's emotional state with
another's emotional distress. It has been described in different social species, including rats …