NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS LOCAL CIRCUIT FOR CUE-DEPENDENT AVERSIVE LEARNING

Summary: Response to threatening environmental stimuli requires detection FRUIT SAMPLER and encoding of important environmental features that dictate threat.Aversive events are highly salient, which promotes associative learning about stimuli that signal this threat.The nucleus accumbens is uniquely positioned to process this salient, aversive info

The present work, the result of the dialogical authorship between an indigenous academic and researcher and two non-indigenous researchers involved in this theme, intends to contribute to greater visibility and recognition of the trajectories of indigenous scholars and professionals formed by public universities in a recent context of affirmative a