Ventromedial hypothalamic neurons control a defensive emotion state

Defensive behaviors reflect underlying emotion states, such as fear. The hypothalamus plays a role in such behaviors, but prevailing textbook views depict it as an effector of upstream emotion centers, such as the amygdala, rather than as an emotion center itself. We used optogenetic manipulations t...

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Main Authors: Prabhat S Kunwar, Moriel Zelikowsky, Ryan Remedios, Haijiang Cai, Melis Yilmaz, Markus Meister, David J Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-03-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/06633