Skip to content

clm-ngb01e8gt6

CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus) projects to AI (Agranular insular area)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
CeAGA axons were found in insular cortex ipsilaterally and, more sparsely, contralaterally.
Source

General anesthetics activate a potent central pain-suppression circuit in the amygdala

Nature Neuroscience, 2020

DOI 10.1038/s41593-020-0632-8 · PubMed 32424286 · PMC7329612, Fig. 6 (3a,3b); Extended Data 9d

Licence: https://www.springer.com/tdm

Named in the paper
“CeAGA neurons” and “insular cortex (Ins)”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
Checked by

a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09

“Insular cortex is innervated ipsilaterally and, more sparsely, contralaterally, per Fig. 6 panels 3a-b.”

Status

proposed

Drafted and checked by AI models; it stays proposed until people have audited a sample of such claims.