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ArticleHuman brain mapping2019

High-precision magnetoencephalography for reconstructing amygdalar and hippocampal oscillations during prediction of safety and threat.

Athina Tzovara, Sofie S Meyer, James J Bonaiuto, Aslan Abivardi, Raymond J Dolan, Gareth R Barnes, Dominik R Bach

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Athina TzovaraDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7588-1418
Sofie S MeyerWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
James J BonaiutoWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Aslan AbivardiDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3946-7057
Raymond J DolanWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Gareth R BarnesWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5396-7712
Dominik R BachDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3717-2036
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GBUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

BBSRC BB/M009645/1Medical Research Council MR/K005464/1Medical Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council MR/K6010/86010/1Medical Research Council UKMEG MR/K005464/1Swiss National Science Foundation 320030_1449586/1Swiss National Science Foundation IZK0Z3_168980/1Swiss National Science Foundation P300PA_174451UCL Neuroscience/Zurich Neuroscience Centre collaboration grantWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging 203147/Z/16/ZWellcome TrustWellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship 202805/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Learning to associate neutral with aversive events in rodents is thought to depend on hippocampal and amygdala oscillations. In humans, oscillations underlying aversive learning are not well characterised, largely due to the technical difficulty of recording from these two structures. Here, we used high-precision magnetoencephalography (MEG) during human discriminant delay threat conditioning. We constructed generative anatomical models relating neural activity with recorded magnetic fields at the single-participant level, including the neocortex with or without the possibility of sources originating in the hippocampal and amygdalar structures. Models including neural activity in amygdala and hippocampus explained MEG data during threat conditioning better than exclusively neocortical models. We found that in both amygdala and hippocampus, theta oscillations during anticipation of an aversive event had lower power compared to safety, both during retrieval and extinction of aversive memories. At the same time, theta synchronisation between hippocampus and amygdala increased over repeated retrieval of aversive predictions, but not during safety. Our results suggest that high-precision MEG is sensitive to neural activity of the human amygdala and hippocampus during threat conditioning and shed light on the oscillation-mediated mechanisms underpinning retrieval and extinction of fear memories in humans.

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Signal Processing, Computer-AssistedAdultAmygdalaFearFemaleHippocampusHumansMagnetoencephalographyMaleYoung AdultamygdalahippocampusMEGsource reconstructiontheta oscillationsthreat conditioning

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PMID31257708
PMCPMC6772181
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