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ReviewNature neuroscience2019

Neuromodulation in circuits of aversive emotional learning.

Ekaterina Likhtik, Joshua P Johansen

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Review in Nature neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 77 papers.

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77citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Alpha-2 Adrenoreceptor Antagonist Yohimbine Potentiates Consolidation of Conditioned Fear.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2022
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  2. A Critical Time Window of Neocortex Modulation for Remote Fear Memory in Rats and Humans.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  12. Infralimbic Projections to the Substantia Innominata-Ventral Pallidum Constrain Defensive Behavior during Extinction Learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ekaterina LikhtikBiology Department, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. el1417@hunter.cuny.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4798-0283
Joshua P JohansenRIKEN Center for Brain Science, Laboratory for Neural Circuitry of Learning & Memory, Wako, Japan. jjohans@brain.riken.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4240-1550

Funding

Circuit-Level Regulation of Fear and Safety Learning in Chronically Stressed MiceR21MH114182 · NIMH · HUNTER COLLEGE · PI BURGHARDT, NESHA STAR, LIKHTIK, EKATERINA · 2018 to 2019
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emotional learning and memory are functionally and dysfunctionally regulated by the neuromodulatory state of the brain. While the role of excitatory and inhibitory neural circuits mediating emotional learning and its control have been the focus of much research, we are only now beginning to understand the more diffuse role of neuromodulation in these processes. Recent experimental studies of the acetylcholine, noradrenaline and dopamine systems in fear learning and extinction of fear responding provide surprising answers to key questions in neuromodulation. One area of research has revealed how modular organization, coupled with context-dependent coding modes, allows for flexible brain-wide or targeted neuromodulation. Other work has shown how these neuromodulators act in downstream targets to enhance signal-to-noise ratios and gain, as well as to bind distributed circuits through neuronal oscillations. These studies elucidate how different neuromodulatory systems regulate aversive emotional processing and reveal fundamental principles of neuromodulatory function.

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AnimalsAvoidance LearningEmotionsFearHumansLearningMemoryNerve NetNeurotransmitter AgentsNeurotransmitter Agents

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