Parsing Reward and Aversion in the Amygdala.
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is critical for encoding the value of stimuli. Beyeler et al. (2016) now show that distinct populations of BLA neurons, which are defined by their efferent targets, code reward and aversion. This arrangement promotes parallel processing of biologically relevant events.
Department of Psychology and Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USA. Electronic address: maren@tamu.edu.
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