A new study suggests that hormonal contraceptive use during adolescence may impair the brain’s ability to retain fear extinction memories—a process thought to be important for regulating anxiety. In a ...

To test whether this silencing caused the PTSD-like behavior, the team used chemogenetic tools to artificially reactivate BA neurons during extinction training. Remarkably, this restored excitatory ...

What if our society comes to the point where we have nothing to fear but...an expired prescription? What if science could wipe our painful memories away, without surgery? What if there were a pill ...

This study is led by Prof. Chaoran Ren (Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan university), Prof. Tifei Yuan (Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School ...

In normal mice, after a traumatic event, the synaptic network complex and excitability of basal amygdala excitatory neurons increase, which activates the basal amygdala, facilitating the extinction of ...