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BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus) functionally connects to Isocortex

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Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
optogenetic circuit mapping
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Halorhodopsin silencing of BLA axon terminals in the vmPFC changed vmPFC calcium activity during observational fear. Shock-suppressed neurons lost their positive freezing correlation, and freezing-positive neurons lost their negative correlation with shock timing. This indicates BLA input shapes the freezing-positive/shock-suppressed subpopulation.
Source

Ventromedial prefrontal neurons represent self-states shaped by vicarious fear in male mice

Nature Communications, 2023

DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-39081-5 · PubMed 37400435 · PMC10318047, Fig. 6i–p; Results, 'Physiological activity in the vmPFC during inhibition of the ACC-vmPFC and BLA-vmPFC pathways'

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“BLA” and “vmPFC”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
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a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09

“Fig. 6i–p shows that BLA terminal silencing removed the positive freezing correlation of shock-suppressed neurons and the negative shock correlation of freezing-positive neurons.”

Status

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