Andrea Muñoz Zamora

This study shows that sickness experiences are encoded as brain engrams that, when reactivated, trigger metabolic and immune responses similar to natural sickness.

The paper shows that innate fear responses to visual looming stimuli in mice can be reduced through repeated exposure and that hippocampal engrams are required for learned fear responses.

The paper shows that optogenetic reactivation of socially-active neurons in the infralimbic prefrontal cortex mimics social buffering of fear in mice.