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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

April 28, 2025
… passed. Dopamine Neuromodulators neuromodulation amygdala VTA https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501331122 Study shows how a … distinct groups of neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). “Our study uncovers a precise mechanism by which … fear-related disorders like PTSD.” Forgetting fear The VTA was the lab’s prime suspect to be the source of the …

Hippocampus as an interregional memory hub

… reward-encoding region called the ventral tegmental area (VTA), and found that it correlated closely when the … region that communicates with both the hippocampus and the VTA, the lateral septum LS). They discovered that the LS … that the LS, using information from the hippocampus, the VTA and other regions, is a hub linking motivation, movement …

'What Were you Thinking?'

September 20, 2021
… (HTH), entorhinal cortex (EC) and ventral tegmental area (VTA). Illustration by Hannah Wirtshafter. W hile there are …
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