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Rodent see, rodent fear

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To learn from others' experience, one must link environmental conditions with social cues. A specific amygdala circuit underlies social learning of fear, and targeted activation normalizes behavior in a rodent model of autism.

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Figure 1: Social fear learning.

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  1. Yoav Kfir and Rony Paz are in the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.,

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