Threat perception: Fear and the retrorubal field

Laura A Bradfield; Mihaela D Iordanova

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.065

Threat perception: Fear and the retrorubal field

Curr Biol. 2021 May 24;31(10):R469-R471. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.065.

Authors

Laura A Bradfield¹, Mihaela D Iordanova²

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, University of Technology Sydney (St. Vincent's Campus), 405 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney Limited, 405 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia. Electronic address: laura.Bradfield@uts.edu.au.
² Department of Psychology/Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: mihaela.iordanova@concordia.ca.

PMID: 34033766
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.065

Abstract

A new study has found that neurons within a structure of the rat midbrain known as the retrorubral field show diverse responses to stimuli that signal different levels of threat, as well as a separate pattern of diverse responses to differentially predicted aversive outcomes.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Fear*
Neurons*
Perception
Rats