This Week in The Journal
Basolateral Amygdala Circuits for Fear Depend on Context
Joanna Yau, Amy Li, Lauren Abdallah, Leszek Lisowski, and Gavan McNally
(see article e0857242024)
In this issue, neuroscientists continue to illuminate the context dependence of circuit activation. Yau et al. investigated appetitive and aversive basolateral amygdala (BLA) circuits using photometry recordings in rats. Rats learned to associate a sound with a footshock in two contexts: a neutral environment or an environment in which they could lever press for a food reward. …
