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Study highlights the importance of sensory connections in fear learning Has your heart ever started to race at the thought of an upcoming deadline for work? Or has the sight of an unknown object in a dark room made you jump? Well, you can probably thank your amygdala for that. The small almond-shaped brain structure is central to how we perceive and process fear. As we start to learn to associate fear with cues in our environment, neuronal connections within the amygdala are dynamically altered in a process called synaptic plasticity. Although this physiological mechanism is important for fac...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Douglas Asede and colleague Divyesh Doddapaneni, co-first authors of the new paper "Apical intercalated cell cluster: a distinct sensory regulator in the amygdala " view more  Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Has your heart ever started to race at the thought of an upcoming deadline for work? Or has the sight of an unknown object in a dark room made you jump? Well, you can probably thank your amygdala for that. The small almond-shaped brain structure is central to how we perceive and process fear. As we start to learn to associate fear with cues ...