Topic: vHPC ripples

Survival critically depends on the ability to detect threatening situations and in further selecting appropriate defensive behavior. This crucial mechanism contributed by contextual discrimination largely depends on the continuous evaluation of sensory cues that define the context. However, it may give rise to anxiety-related psychological disorders in situations of inaccurate context processing. We here aim to characterize neuronal determinants that allow the encoding and consolidation of contextual fear memory to successfully drive behavioral adaption, and mechanisms that especially induce c