What ethologically based models have taught us about the neural systems underlying fear and anxiety

Threat Prompts Defensive Brain Responses Independently of Attentional Control

(2011) Swann Pichon et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Functional identification of an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus

(2011) Dayu Lin et al.   NATURE

The periaqueductal gray and its potential role in maternal behavior inhibition in response to predatory threats

(2010) Marcia Harumi Sukikara et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits

(2010) Stephane Ciocchi et al.   NATURE

Evidence for the thalamic targets of the medial hypothalamic defensive system mediating emotional memory to predatory threats

(2010) Eduardo F. Carvalho-Netto et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Amygdalar roles during exposure to a live predator and to a predator-associated context

(2010) R.C. Martinez et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Induction of panic attack by stimulation of the ventromedial hypothalamus

(2009) W. Bryan Wilent et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY

Dissecting the brain's fear system reveals the hypothalamus is critical for responding in subordinate conspecific intruders

(2009) S. C. Motta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contributions of the retrosplenial and posterior parietal cortices to cue-specific and contextual fear conditioning.

(2008) Christopher S. Keene et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Neurotoxic lesions of retrosplenial cortex disrupt signaled and unsignaled contextual fear conditioning.

(2008) Christopher S. Keene et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

The Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex Modulates the Efficiency of Amygdala-Dependent Fear Learning

(2008) Stephanie Bissière et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Hypothalamic sites responding to predator threats - the role of the dorsal premammillary nucleus in unconditioned and conditioned antipredatory defensive behavior

(2008) A. F. Cezario et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

New Perspectives on  -Adrenergic Mediation of Innate and Learned Fear Responses to Predator Odor

(2008) F. H. M. Do Monte et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Sensing danger through the olfactory system: The role of the hypothalamic dorsal premammillary nucleus

(2008) Newton S. Canteras et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS