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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2025

Transformations in prefrontal ensemble activity underlying rapid threat avoidance learning.

Christopher J Gabriel, Tanya A Gupta, Asai Sánchez-Fuentes, Zachary Zeidler, Scott A Wilke, Laura A DeNardo

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Christopher J GabrielDepartment of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Tanya A GuptaSemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, Neuromodulation Division, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA.
Asai Sánchez-FuentesSemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, Neuromodulation Division, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA.
Zachary ZeidlerDepartment of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Scott A WilkeSemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, Neuromodulation Division, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. Electronic address: swilke@mednet.ucla.edu.
Laura A DeNardoDepartment of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: ldenardo@ucla.edu.

Funding

Prefrontal circuits underlying the maturation of learned avoidanceR01MH127214 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Laura Anne DeNardo · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
Role of prefrontal dopamine circuits in threat avoidance learningR01MH137461 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Laura Anne DeNardo, Scott Allen Wilke · 2024 to 2026
$2.2M
Role of prefrontostriatal circuits in effort-based, cost-benefit decision makingR01MH131858 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Scott Allen Wilke · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
Training in Neurotechnology TranslationT32NS115753 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LU, DANIEL, MARKOVIC, DEJAN · 2020 to 2024
$1.2M
Reorganization of cortical memory ensembles across timeF32MH133387 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ZEIDLER, ZACHARY E · 2023 to 2025
$192k
NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH133387NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH127214NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH131858NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH137461NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS115753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To survive, animals must rapidly learn to avoid aversive outcomes by predicting threats and taking preemptive actions to avoid them. Often, this involves identifying locations that are safe in the context of specific, impending threats and remaining in those locations until the threat passes. Thus, animals quickly learn how threat-predicting cues alter the implications of entering or leaving a safe location. The prelimbic subregion (PL) of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) integrates learned associations to influence threat avoidance strategies.

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Avoidance LearningFearPrefrontal CortexAnimalsCuesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronslearningminiscope imagingmouseprefrontal cortexthreat avoidance

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PMID39938512
PMCPMC11916606

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