Read our new preprint lead by graduate students Erica Ramirez and Maricela Martinez, who found that silencing GABA neurons in the ventral pallidum exaggerates defensive responses to threat cues and activates the lateral habenula, indicating a novel role beyond their known function in reward processing. Ramirez EM, Martinez MX, Rokerya RK, Vera VA, Ruiz CM, Read More…