Study expands understanding of how the brain encodes fear memory
Research on ‘fear memory’ could lead to the development of therapies that reduce the effects of PTSD, which affects 7 percent of the US population. The researchers found that a population of hippocampal neurons project to both the amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex, and that these neurons efficiently convey information to the two brain areas to encode and retrieve fear memory for a context associated with an aversive event. …read more
