Fear Processing
The medial zone of hypothalamus is part of a circuitry that controls motivated behaviors, like defensive behaviors. Analyses of Fos-labeling showed that a series of nuclei in the "behavioral control column" is important in regulating the expression of innate and conditioned defensive behaviors.
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“When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)