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SUBMITTER: Li Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5731476 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Ying Y Mathis Alexander A Grewe Benjamin F BF Osterhout Jessica A JA Ahanonu Biafra B Schnitzer Mark J MJ Murthy Venkatesh N VN Dulac Catherine C
Cell 20171026 5
The medial amygdala (MeA) plays a critical role in processing species- and sex-specific signals that trigger social and defensive behaviors. However, the principles by which this deep brain structure encodes social information is poorly understood. We used a miniature microscope to image the Ca<sup>2+</sup> dynamics of large neural ensembles in awake behaving mice and tracked the responses of MeA neurons over several months. These recordings revealed spatially intermingled subsets of MeA neurons ...[more]