During early development, rats show the unlikely behavior of becoming attracted to the very stimulus that they should avoid. A new study shows that this occurs as a result of a complex interplay of glucocorticoid secretion and dopaminergic tone in the amygdala.
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Sapolsky, R. Any kind of mother in a storm. Nat Neurosci 12, 1355–1356 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1109-1355
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