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Basal forebrain moderates the magnitude of task-dependent amygdala functional connectivity.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience - 1 Apr 2015
Gorka Adam X, Knodt Annchen R, Hariri Ahmad R
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Animal studies reveal that the amygdala promotes attention and emotional memory, in part, by driving activity in downstream target regions including the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus. Prior work has demonstrated that the amygdala influences these regions directly through monosynaptic glutamatergic signaling, and indirectly by driving activity of the cholinergic basal forebrain and subsequent downstream...
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