A new study reveals how a single food poisoning experience creates long-lasting aversive memories in the brain.

Scientists from Princeton have discovered that the amygdala in the brain is responsible for the long-term avoidance of foods ...

“This novel research paper provides anatomical and physiological evidence for the existence of a long-range inhibitory pathway from the auditory cortex to the amygdala in the mouse brain,” Apicella ...

“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). While conducting laboratory ...

Much like food poisoning, traumatic events are often followed by symptoms after a delay, and yet they still form vivid, persistent memories.

To ensure we get the calories and hydration we need, the brain relies on a complex network of cells, signals, and pathways to ...

and then when the mouse retrieves that negative memory days later.” The central amygdala, a small group of cells towards the bottom of the brain involved in emotion and fear learning ...

Evidence to back that up came from work by Kerry Ressler of Emory University in Atlanta and colleagues, who were studying gene expression in the mouse amygdala—a part of the brain is activated by fear ...