Worry not, the VTA has the BNST under control… or does it?
Joana Ribeiro, Thomas Contesse, Océane Pierrot, Jacques Barik, Sebastian P. Fernandez · FENS Forum 2024
Anxiety, a heightened state of arousal and negative affect, is an adaptive response essential for increasing awareness of potential threats in the environment. Research on the mechanisms leading to the pathological development of this response is crucial. The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is recognized as a key brain region for encoding information related to salient stimuli, and in recent years, has been attributed a novel role as a threat encoder and coordinator of defensive behaviors. The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) actively mediates responses to uncertainty in the environment
ePoster · Neuroscience