The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science and opportunities for accelerating discovery

SE Grogans, E Bliss-Moreau, KA Buss, LA Clark… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fear and anxiety play a central role in mammalian life, and there is considerable interest in
clarifying their nature, identifying their biological underpinnings, and determining their …

Incentive motivation:'wanting'roles of central amygdala circuitry

SM Warlow, KC Berridge - Behavioural brain research, 2021 - Elsevier
The central nucleus of amygdala (CeA) mediates positively-valenced reward motivation as
well as negatively-valenced fear. Optogenetic or neurochemical stimulation of CeA circuitry …

The central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain

SM Warlow, EE Naffziger, KC Berridge - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
How do brain mechanisms create maladaptive attractions? Here intense maladaptive
attractions are created in laboratory rats by pairing optogenetic channelrhodopsin (ChR2) …

A bidirectional corticoamygdala circuit for the encoding and retrieval of detailed reward memories

AC Sias, AK Morse, S Wang, VY Greenfield… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Adaptive reward-related decision making often requires accurate and detailed
representation of potential available rewards. Environmental reward-predictive stimuli can …

A neuronal mechanism for motivational control of behavior

J Courtin, Y Bitterman, S Müller, J Hinz, KM Hagihara… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Acting to achieve goals underlies animals' behavioral flexibility and
depends on the ability to motivate specific behaviors. Formal studies of goal-directed …

Chemogenetic stimulation and silencing of the insula, amygdala, nucleus accumbens, and their connections differentially modulate alcohol drinking in rats

M Haaranen, A Schäfer, V Järvi… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The anterior insular cortex is hypothesized to represent interoceptive effects of drug reward
in the service of goal-directed behavior. The insula is richly connected, but the insula …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant orbitofrontal cortex reactivity to erotic cues in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder

K Golec, M Draps, R Stark, A Pluta… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2021 - akjournals.com
Abstract Background and aims Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD) is
characterized by increased reactivity to erotic reward cues. Cue-encoded reward …

Endocannabinoid release at ventral hippocampal-amygdala synapses regulates stress-induced behavioral adaptation

V Kondev, M Najeed, F Yasmin, A Morgan, N Loomba… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The endocannabinoid (eCB) system is a key modulator of glutamate release within limbic
neurocircuitry and thus heavily modulates stress responsivity and adaptation. The ventral …

[HTML][HTML] Choose your path: Divergent basolateral amygdala efferents differentially mediate incentive motivation, flexibility and decision-making

SE Keefer, U Gyawali, DJ Calu - Behavioural Brain Research, 2021 - Elsevier
To survive in a complex environment, individuals form associations between environmental
stimuli and rewards to organize and optimize reward seeking behaviors. The basolateral …

The basolateral amygdala and lateral hypothalamus bias learning towards motivationally significant events

IB Hoang, MJ Sharpe - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Every day we are faced with a huge amount of new information. We can't learn about
everything, we have to select what to learn about. We have many systems that contribute to …