How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety into Calmness

It is not clear how the prefrontal cortex integrates diverse inputs during the regulation of emotional responses. In an effort to gain insight into the neural circuitry underlying the expression of conditioned fear, Gregory Quirk and colleagues uncovered a prefrontal circuit whereby hippocampus gates amygdala-based fear. Interestingly, reduced hippocampal volumes have been observed in depressio