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Impact Of Acetylcholine On Amygdala Network Oscillations, Joshua Xavier Bratsch-Prince

Theses and Dissertations

The ability to appropriately respond to and store memories of emotionally salient events is a critical feature of survival. The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is a temporal lobe structure that is essential in mediating emotional behaviors, learning, and memory. Important to circuit function are synchronized neuronal oscillations. Different oscillatory signatures are implicated in mediating different aspects of behavior and learning and memory processes: theta frequency (3-12 Hz) oscillations represent “online” states and are important for information encoding and learning, and sharp wave ripples (SWRs) represent more “offline” states that are important for the consolidation of memory. In the BLA, both of …