Commentary: Midbrain projection to the basolateral amygdala encodes anxiety-like but not depression-like behaviors

Jihu Zhao; Peng Sun; Heng Liu

doi:10.3389/fnmol.2023.1117121

Commentary: Midbrain projection to the basolateral amygdala encodes anxiety-like but not depression-like behaviors

Front Mol Neurosci. 2023 Feb 8:16:1117121. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1117121. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Jihu Zhao^{1

2}, Peng Sun², Heng Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
² Department of Neurosurgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: anxiety disorders; anxiolytic; basolateral amygdala; midbrain; ventral tegmental area.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32000795), Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation (ZR2020QC095), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M622129), and Special Fund for Youth of Applied Foundational Research Program of Qingdao (No. 19-6-2-43-cg).