Maria Gabriela Menezes Oliveira

The functional disconnection of the dorsal hippocampus and prelimbic cortex impairs the contextual fear conditioning of stimuli separated in time in male rats.

The hippocampus plays a fundamental role in contextual fear conditioning (CFC). Studies have found that its ventral portion is mostly related to emotional processing, while the dorsal portion is related to the processing of contextual memories. The prelimbic cortex (PL) is also associated with contextual fear condition...