Thalamus sends information about arousal but not valence to the amygdala
Christopher A. Leppla, Laurel R. Keyes, Gordon F. Glober, Gillian A. Matthews, Kanha Batra, Maya Jay, Yu Feng, Hannah S. Chen, Fergil Mills, Jeremy Delahanty, Jacob M. Olson, Edward H. Nieh, Praneeth Namburi, Craig P. Wildes, Romy Wichmann, , Kay M. Tye
The paper investigates the role of the MGN-BLA circuit in associative learning, finding that the MGN encodes arousal but not valence, while the BLA encodes both.
Psychopharmacology · Dec 15, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience