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Scientists identify brain circuit that drives pleasure-inducing behavior

Wednesday, Mar 22
… located in a brain region thought to be linked with fear. amygdala valence … Scientists have long believed that the central amygdala, a structure located deep within the brain, is … to fearful events, but most of the neurons in the central amygdala are involved in the reward circuit, they report. …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/98

Lifting the veil on ‘valence,’ brain study reveals roots of desire, dislike

Tuesday, Jan 23
… 2018 Research Findings Research reveals inner workings of amygdala, which assigns feelings to experiences Emotions Addiction amygdala CLARITY valence circuits … The amygdala is a tiny hub of emotions where in 2016 a team led …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/145

Mice naturally engage in physical distancing, study finds

Wednesday, Mar 31
… stops mice from mating with others that appear to be sick amygdala behavior social behavior … that this behavior is controlled by a circuit in the amygdala, which detects distinctive odors from sick animals … which processes pheromones, feeds into a part of the amygdala called the COApm, and the MIT team found that this …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/773

Brain circuit enables split-second decisions when cues conflict

Monday, Apr 24
… on how we quickly assess risks and rewards before acting. amygdala prefrontal cortex … Two regions of the brain — the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex — have for some … Burgos-Robles and Eyal Kimchi, who co-led the study. “The amygdala is thought to be important for emotive processes, …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/72

A delicate balance between positive and negative emotion

Monday, Oct 17
… neuron populations that encode happy or fearful memories. amygdala hippocampus valence … is governed partly by a tiny brain structure known as the amygdala, which is responsible for processing positive … and where it happened), with neurons in the basolateral amygdala (BLA), which stores the emotional association of the …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/70

Kay Tye Receives the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

Tuesday, Nov 15
… for her work on emotional circuitry of the brain. awards amygdala Addiction On Nov. 5, the Society for Neuroscience … (but is not limited to) the dopaminergic system and the amygdala. Although dopamine has historically been viewed as a … for negative valence. Conversely, her work shows that the amygdala — a region primarily studied in the storage and …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/81

With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward

Wednesday, Jan 15
… reward also form new memories to suppress fearful ones amygdala engram … the gene Ppp1r1b in the posterior of the basolateral amygdala (pBLA), a region known to assign associations of … to something more positive.” Above: In the basolateral amygdala of a mouse, Ppp1r1b-expressing cells are stained …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/607

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit necessary for memory formation

Thursday, Apr 06
… memory consolidation. engram hippocampus prefrontal cortex amygdala … hippocampus, the prefrontal cortex, and the basolateral amygdala, which stores memories’ emotional associations. Just … still prompted the animals to freeze. In the basolateral amygdala, once memories were formed, the engram cells …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/97

MIT Colloquium on Brain & Cognition with Mark Andermann, PhD

… boosting the responses of neurons in cortex and amygdala to need-relevant sensory cues. In turn, such … study visual processing in retina, thalamus, cortex, and amygdala, and to understand how hunger biases visual …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/142

Brain circuit helps us learn by watching others

Thursday, May 03
… for observational learning. social memory social behavior amygdala cortex … as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) are active when we learn by watching others. …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/330

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