UTSA researches discover new pathways in brain's amygdala

Efrain Palacios Jr.

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     The researches are studying the amygdala to get a better understanding of the brain and how it is linked to stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer,s disease. The amygdala is a tiny part of the brain located inside the temporal lobes and it controls emotions, actions, and cognition. When conducting the experiment on a mouse the researches found a pathway that goes the the auditory cortex to the amygdala  where they found a emotional pathway. One of the researches, Apicella, stated that if technology keeps advancing it will be possible to study individual neutrons. 

     When doing the experiment Apicella added a inhibitor that was able to alter the activity of amygdala's principal neurons and control the out come. Somatostain is a substance in the neurons that forms connections with principal neurons from there it goes to different parts of the brain that are involve with fear and aversive behavior. In future experiments they should be able to tell if stimuli can influence the behavior that are linked in the amygdala. All the research related to this will continue with his team and they over time want to know if how cortical microcircuits process information that leads to behavior outcome.

https://www.utsa.edu/today/2019/11/story/brain-amygdala.html