Running Head: PREFRONTAL NEURONS ACTIVATED BY THREATENING STIMULI
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Distinct ensembles of medial prefrontal cortex neurons are activated by threatening stimuli 1 that elicit excitation versus inhibition of movement 2 Running Head: PREFRONTAL NEURONS ACTIVATED BY THREATENING STIMULI 3 4 Lindsay R. Halladay and Hugh T. Blair 5 Department of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. 6 Present address: Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience, National Institute on 7 Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. 8 9 Correspondence should be addressed to: Hugh T. Blair, Ph.D. 10 UCLA Psychology Department 11 1285 Franz Hall 12 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563 13 310-825-1630 (voice) 14 310-206-5895 (fax) 15 email: [email protected] 16 Number of Figures: 7 17 Number of Tables: 1 18 Number of Pages (Including references and legends): 47 19 20
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