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Lateral Habenula Mediates Defensive Responses Only When Threat and Safety Memories Are in Conflict

Geronimo Velazquez-Hernandez and Francisco Sotres-Bayon
eNeuro 12 March 2021, 8 (2) ENEURO.0482-20.2021; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0482-20.2021
Geronimo Velazquez-Hernandez
Cell Physiology Institute–Neuroscience, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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Francisco Sotres-Bayon
Cell Physiology Institute–Neuroscience, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0482-20.2021
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33712440
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  • Received November 10, 2020
  • Revision received January 21, 2021
  • Accepted January 23, 2021
  • Published online March 12, 2021.
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Copyright © 2021 Velazquez-Hernandez and Sotres-Bayon This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Geronimo Velazquez-Hernandez and
  2. Francisco Sotres-Bayon
  1. Cell Physiology Institute–Neuroscience, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Francisco Sotres-Bayon at sotres{at}ifc.unam.mx.
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  1. Author contributions: G.V.-H. and F.S.-B. designed research; G.V.-H. performed research; G.V.-H. and F.S.-B. analyzed data; G.V.-H. and F.S.-B. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) Grant PN2463, Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Grants IN205417 and IN214520, and the International Brain Research Organization Return Home Fellowship (to F.S.-B.). G.V.-H. is a doctoral student at Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas at UNAM and was supported by the CONACyT Fellowship 658352.

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    PN2463; 658352
  • Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    IN205417 and IN214520

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