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Avoidance Behavior Circuits

Avoidance Behavior Circuits is a neural circuitry construct that directs defensive behaviors away from perceived threats, distinguished by its specific integration of amygdalar, prefrontal, and periaqueductal gray pathways modulating active and passive avoidance responses in anxiety-related disorders.

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Behavioural and pharmacological characterisation of the elevated “zero-maze” as an animal model of anxiety

Jon K. Shepherd, Savraj Grewal, Allan Fletcher et al. · Psychopharmacology · 1994 · 742 citations

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Anxiogenic stimuli in the elevated plus-maze

Dallas Treit, Janet L. Menard, Cary Royan · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 1993 · 622 citations

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Activation of lateral habenula inputs to the ventral midbrain promotes behavioral avoidance

Alice M. Stamatakis, Garret D. Stuber · Nature Neuroscience · 2012 · 583 citations

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Is Avoiding an Aversive Outcome Rewarding? Neural Substrates of Avoidance Learning in the Human Brain

Hackjin Kim, Shinsuke Shimojo, John P. O’Doherty · PLoS Biology · 2006 · 458 citations · Full text

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Fear and Safety Engage Competing Patterns of Theta-Gamma Coupling in the Basolateral Amygdala

Joseph M. Stujenske, Ekaterina Likhtik, Mihir A. Topiwala et al. · Neuron · 2014 · 318 citations · Full text

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    Michael Gabriel

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    10 publications · 353 citations

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    Holger Ursin

    University of Bergen, Norway

    6 publications · 318 citations

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    D. de Wied

    University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

    6 publications · 330 citations

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    Hymie Anisman

    Carleton University, Canada

    6 publications · 326 citations

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    Adolf Tobeña

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    5 publications · 266 citations

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  1. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    11 h-index

    23 publications

    554 citations

  2. University Medical Center Utrecht

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    25 publications

    1.2K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    35 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    9 h-index

    26 publications

    928 citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    883 citations

  7. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    8 h-index

    21 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    7 h-index

    26 publications

    1.5K citations

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  2. Behavioural Brain Research

    33 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. Physiology & Behavior

    32 publications · 1.1K citations

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    19 publications · 816 citations

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