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ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2024

Neural circuits for the adaptive regulation of fear and extinction memory.

Samantha L Plas, Tuğçe Tuna, Hugo Bayer, Vitor A L Juliano, Samantha O Sweck, Angel D Arellano Perez, James E Hassell, Stephen Maren

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Review in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Locus coeruleus-amygdala circuit disrupts prefrontal control to impair fear extinction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. dCA1 cells encode and update contextual place preference.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Samantha L Plas *Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Tuğçe Tuna *Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Hugo BayerDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Vitor A L JulianoDepartment of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Samantha O SweckDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Angel D Arellano PerezDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
James E HassellDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Stephen MarenDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.

Funding

Neural Substrates of Contextual Memory in Fear ExtinctionR01MH065961 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MAREN, STEPHEN · 2003 to 2025
$7.9M
Neural Circuits for Stress-Impaired Extinction LearningR01MH117852 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Stephen Maren · 2018 to 2026
$4.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH065961NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH117852
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The regulation of fear memories is critical for adaptive behaviors and dysregulation of these processes is implicated in trauma- and stress-related disorders. Treatments for these disorders include pharmacological interventions as well as exposure-based therapies, which rely upon extinction learning. Considerable attention has been directed toward elucidating the neural mechanisms underlying fear and extinction learning. In this review, we will discuss historic discoveries and emerging evidence on the neural mechanisms of the adaptive regulation of fear and extinction memories. We will focus on neural circuits regulating the acquisition and extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning in rodent models, particularly the role of the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in the contextual control of extinguished fear memories. We will also consider new work revealing an important role for the thalamic nucleus reuniens in the modulation of prefrontal-hippocampal interactions in extinction learning and memory. Finally, we will explore the effects of stress on this circuit and the clinical implications of these findings.

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amygdalaextinctionfear memoryhippocampusprefrontal cortexrat

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PMID38370858
PMCPMC10869525

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