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Brain hack: Scientists find ‘off switch’ for anxiety without side effects
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have made promising advances in understanding how to reduce anxiety through specific ...
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New brain circuit discovery may improve anxiety treatment
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified a brain circuit linked to anxiety that may provide a new drug target, ...
Advanced brain circuit-mapping technique reveals new anxiety drug target
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears ...
The EMBO Journal3d
Microbial metabolites tune amygdala neuronal hyperexcitability and anxiety-linked behaviors
Microbe-derived indoles modulate anxiety and neuronal excitability in the amygdala of germ-free (GF) male mice. These ...
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How Your Lizard Brain Helps You Read The Minds Of Other People
Many of us rely on intuition to "read a room" and gauge how well social interactions go, like when we […] The post How Your ...
Frontiers18d
Executive function, limbic circuit dynamics and repetitive and restricted behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder
Specifically, it points out that EFs mediate the influence of atypical time-varying interactions within the OFC-amygdala circuit on RRBs. Given the central role of RRBs in ASD and the potential ...
eLife23d
Control of innate olfactory valence by segregated cortical amygdala circuits
The plCoA encodes innately-valenced odor identity using a population code. (A) Schematic representation of virus injection and GRIN lens implantation into aplCoA or pplCoA for two-photon microscopy.