Knapska Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2016

Functional connectomics of the amygdala in social interactions of different valence

Understanding how brain controls social interactions is one of the central goals of neuroscience. Whereas social interactions and their effects on the emotional state of an individual are relatively well described at the behavioral level, much less is known about neural mechanisms involved in these very complex phenomena, especially in the amygdala, a key structure processing emotions in the brain. Recent investigations, mainly on fear learning and extinction, have shown that there are highly specialized neuronal circuits within the amygdala that control specific behaviors. However, a high density of interconnections, both among amyg¬dalar nuclei and between amygdalar nuclei and other brain…

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