This study identifies the role of dentate gyrus and CA3 hippocampal regions in light-tone second-order conditioning in mice using chemogenetic inhibition and activity mapping.

DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115522

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintOct 28, 2025

Sex-dependent cortico-amygdala circuits controlling emotion recognition

Jose Antonio González-Parra, Irene P. Ayuso-Jimeno, Xiao Chang…·Arnau Busquets-García

This study identifies sex-dependent cortico-amygdala circuits for emotion recognition and shows that age-related impairments can be reversed in male mice through BLA activation.

DOI 10.1101/2025.10.28.685103

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NeuroscienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewedJun 6, 2025

Projecting neurons from lateral entorhinal cortex to basolateral amygdala mediate the encoding of incidental odor-taste associations

Jose Antonio González-Parra, Vittoria Acciai, Laura Vidal-Palencia…·Arnau Busquets-García

The paper identifies a novel brain circuit involving lateral entorhinal cortex to basolateral amygdala projections that mediate incidental odor-taste associations in mice.

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