BLA DBS improves anxiety and fear by correcting weakened synaptic transmission from BLA to adBNST and CeL in a mouse model of foot shock

Summary: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the basal lateral amygdala (BLA) has been established to correct symptoms of refractory post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).However, how BLA DBS operates in correcting PTSD symptoms and how the BLA elicits pathological fear and anxiety in PTSD remain unclear.Here, we discover that excitatory synaptic trans

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On agreement-drop in Singlish: topics never agree

This paper examines the distribution and properties of agreement-drop constructions in Singlish, which are distinguished by the absence of overt subject agreement morphology.I demonstrate that these constructions are distinct from their Personal Care minimally different fully-agreeing counterparts in that they (i) bleed object topicalisation, (ii)

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