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SUBMITTER: Torrisi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5802685 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Torrisi Salvatore S Gorka Adam X AX Gonzalez-Castillo Javier J O'Connell Katherine K Balderston Nicholas N Grillon Christian C Ernst Monique M
Translational psychiatry 20180131 1
The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) and central amygdala (CeA) of the extended amygdala are small, anatomically interconnected brain regions. They are thought to mediate responses to sustained, unpredictable threat stimuli and phasic, predictable threat stimuli, respectively. They perform these operations largely through their interconnected networks. In two previous studies, we mapped and contrasted the resting functional connectivity networks of the BNST and CeA at 7 Tesla with high ...[more]