BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus) projects to VENT (Ventral group of the dorsal thalamus)

EGFP-labelled axons but no somata were seen in the ventral thalamus of mice injected with the virus in the BLA, which the authors interpret as the ventral thalamus being an output target of the BLA.

Made by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) disagrees. “The vTH axons were labelled by the retrograde AAVrg virus, not by an anterograde tracer, so the evidence type is wrong.”