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. 2012 Jun 20;32(25):8431-3.
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1820-12.2012.

The role of the central amygdala in selecting circuits and responses

Aneesha Badrinarayan  1 , Katherine E Prater, Caitlin A Orsini
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The role of the central amygdala in selecting circuits and responses

Aneesha Badrinarayan et al. J Neurosci. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
A model of behavioral selection by neurons in the central amygdala. A, Cues associated with different types of aversive stimuli are represented in distinct patterns of neural activity (indicated by different colored triangles) within the CeA. Salient information about the cues is relayed to the CeA via afferents from the basolateral amygdala. Cues paired with different forms of aversive stimuli, such as shock (orange) or omission of expected reward (blue), recruit nonoverlapping populations of neurons in both the CeL and CeM (Purgert et al., 2012). We hypothesize that these networks of coactive neurons not only represent distinct aversive cues, but also target different downstream structures to select appropriate behavioral responses. B, C, A general model by which both subregions of the CeA may be recruited by aversive cues. B, Under basal conditions, cue-inhibited neurons (black) provide tonic inhibition throughout CeL/CeM microcircuits involved in behavioral expression. C, Upon cue presentation, inhibition of these neurons results in the disinhibition of projection cells (green) in both the CeL and CeM, allowing for activity across both subnuclei and the selection of an appropriate behavioral response.
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