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SUBMITTER: Zheng J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5309795 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Zheng Jie J Anderson Kristopher L KL Leal Stephanie L SL Shestyuk Avgusta A Gulsen Gultekin G Mnatsakanyan Lilit L Vadera Sumeet S Hsu Frank P K FP Yassa Michael A MA Knight Robert T RT Lin Jack J JJ
Nature communications 20170208
Recognizing motivationally salient information is critical to guiding behaviour. The amygdala and hippocampus are thought to support this operation, but the circuit-level mechanism of this interaction is unclear. We used direct recordings in the amygdala and hippocampus from human epilepsy patients to examine oscillatory activity during processing of fearful faces compared with neutral landscapes. We report high gamma (70-180 Hz) activation for fearful faces with earlier stimulus evoked onset in ...[more]