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Social buffering switches fear to safety encoding by oxytocin recruitment of central amygdala "buffer neurons"
Chloé Hegoburu, Yan Tang, Ruifang Niu…·Ron Stoop
This study identifies a neural mechanism by which oxytocin recruits specific CeA neurons to switch fear responses to safety during social buffering in rats.
DOI 10.1101/2023.10.29.563530