Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Ethanol facilitates socially evoked memory recall in mice by recruiting pain-sensitive anterior cingulate cortical neurons

  • Tetsuya Sakaguchi,
  • Satoshi Iwasaki,
  • Mami Okada,
  • Kazuki Okamoto,
  • Yuji Ikegaya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05894-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Mice have been shown to display a fear response upon observing another mouse undergo fear conditioning. Here, the authors show that ethanol facilitates socially evoked fear memory recall, via pain-responsive neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex.