Nature Communications (May 2021)

Connectivity characterization of the mouse basolateral amygdalar complex

  • Houri Hintiryan,
  • Ian Bowman,
  • David L. Johnson,
  • Laura Korobkova,
  • Muye Zhu,
  • Neda Khanjani,
  • Lin Gou,
  • Lei Gao,
  • Seita Yamashita,
  • Michael S. Bienkowski,
  • Luis Garcia,
  • Nicholas N. Foster,
  • Nora L. Benavidez,
  • Monica Y. Song,
  • Darrick Lo,
  • Kaelan R. Cotter,
  • Marlene Becerra,
  • Sarvia Aquino,
  • Chunru Cao,
  • Ryan P. Cabeen,
  • Jim Stanis,
  • Marina Fayzullina,
  • Sarah A. Ustrell,
  • Tyler Boesen,
  • Amanda J. Tugangui,
  • Zheng-Gang Zhang,
  • Bo Peng,
  • Michael S. Fanselow,
  • Peyman Golshani,
  • Joel D. Hahn,
  • Ian R. Wickersham,
  • Giorgio A. Ascoli,
  • Li I. Zhang,
  • Hong-Wei Dong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22915-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 25

Abstract

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The basolateral amygdala is implicated in several behavior-related states including anxiety, autism, and addiction. The authors apply circuit-level pathway tracing methods combined with computational techniques to provide a comprehensive connectivity atlas of the mouse basolateral amygdala complex.