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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

April 28, 2025
… 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 … neural circuits to see whether and how cells in the VTA and the amygdala connect. They found a clear pattern: …

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 …
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