Researchers from MIT found that dopamine signals, traveling from the VTA to the amygdala, help extinguish fear by triggering ...

Learn how dopamine helps encode and extinguish fear in the brains of mice.

A new study reveals that dopamine release along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish fear by activating reward-related neurons in the amygdala.

Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has identified the molecular mechanisms that cause a commonly prescribed antipsychotic drug ...

Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear. A new study in mice by ...

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“Our study uncovers a precise mechanism by which dopamine helps the brain unlearn fear,” said Zhang, who also led the 2020 study and is now Senior Associate at Orbimed, a healthcare investment ...

"Our study uncovers a precise mechanism by which dopamine helps the brain unlearn fear," said Zhang, who also led the 2020 study and is now Senior Associate at Orbimed, a healthcare investment firm.