New paper from the lab

In a true tour-de-force study published in Nature Neuroscience, Bianca shows that the circuits underlying the extinction of fear memories undergo a spatiotemporal shift with memory consolidation. At remote timepoints, they rely on the thalamic nucleus reuniens that seems to register and send safety signals to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in real time, a pathway which coordinates extinction. This is the first description of the circuits that mediate remote fear extinction.