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How associative fear memory is formed in the brain

20:00 EDT 12 Mar 2020 | AAAS

(University of California - Riverside) Using a mouse model, a pair of UC Riverside researchers demonstrated the formation of fear memory involves the strengthening of neural pathways between two brain areas: the hippocampus, which responds to a particular context and encodes it, and the amygdala, which triggers defensive behavior, including fear responses.

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