The Small World of a Fear Memory

Nicholas I Woods; Mazen A Kheirbek

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.008

The Small World of a Fear Memory

Neuron. 2017 Apr 19;94(2):226-227. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.008.

Authors

Nicholas I Woods¹, Mazen A Kheirbek²

Affiliations

¹ Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
² Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: mazen.kheirbek@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

How are fear memories organized? In this issue of Neuron, Vetere et al. (2017) take a network-based approach to demonstrate the importance of highly interconnected hub regions in the consolidation of a fear memory. By doing so, they provide an elegant framework for predicting behavior from functional network properties.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Amygdala / physiology*
Animals
Brain Mapping
Fear / physiology*
Hippocampus / physiology*
Humans
Memory / physiology*
Nerve Net / physiology*

Abstract

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