Topic: emotional conflicts

How the brain computes decisions to support adaptive behaviours under different demands is a long-standing question. Decision-making does not solely rely on cognitive judgments but is likewise influenced by internal states. The ventral hippocampus (vH) is a higher-order cortical brain region critical for processing emotions such as anxiety. Here, we examined the influence of anxiety on decision-making processes while recording neuronal activity in the vH and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). We observed that the activity of vH neurons is modulated by trajectories with different anxiety levels a