Scientists figure out how the brain forms emotional connections

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Then, one day later, the rats were shown the same image and treated with an electric shock until they learned to connect the image with pain
Finally, the team tested if the rats would freeze in fear in response to the sound
cells to produce proteins that fluoresce in response to increased levels of calcium in the cells
brains lit up during the experiments.It turned out that the region crucial for building these complex emotional models was not the amygdala,
but the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), which had a rather specialized role
listening to the sound
the representations of the electric shock and the image started to overlap