Researchers map brain circuits that signal immediate danger and create memories to help avoid threats

Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.006 An article published in the journal Current Biology describes experiments that mapped a brain circuit responsible for instantly detecting threats and forming memories of fear. “We were interested in locating a brain region associated with fear signaling and finding out how it could identify environments previously related to physical or predatory threats, such as a place where the individual underwent an aversive physical stimulus,” said Newton Sabino Canteras, full professor in the Department of Anatomy at the University of São Paulo’s Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICB-USP) in Brazil and last author of the Read More