Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Insular cortical circuits as an executive gateway to decipher threat or extinction memory via distinct subcortical pathways

  • Qi Wang,
  • Jia-Jie Zhu,
  • Lizhao Wang,
  • Yan-Peng Kan,
  • Yan-Mei Liu,
  • Yan-Jiao Wu,
  • Xue Gu,
  • Xin Yi,
  • Ze-Jie Lin,
  • Qin Wang,
  • Jian-Fei Lu,
  • Qin Jiang,
  • Ying Li,
  • Ming-Gang Liu,
  • Nan-Jie Xu,
  • Michael X. Zhu,
  • Lu-Yang Wang,
  • Siyu Zhang,
  • Wei-Guang Li,
  • Tian-Le Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33241-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Ensembles of fear and extinction memories compete and interact to drive opposing behaviors. Here the authors identified insular cortical circuits as an executive gateway that decipher between fear and extinction memories via distinct subcortical pathways.