Synaptic correlates of associative fear memory in the lateral amygdala
Dong Il Choi, Jooyoung Kim, Hoonwon Lee, Ji‐il Kim, Yongmin Sung, Ja Eun Choi, S. Jayakumar Venkat, Pojeong Park, Hyunsu Jung, Bong‐Kiun Kaang
The paper shows that associative fear memory increases spine size at synapses between engram cells in the amygdala, which decreases with extinction and recovers with re-conditioning.
Neuron · Aug 6, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience