题目：Neurobiology of innate and learned fear

报告人：Prof. Markus Fendt （Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology & Center of Behavioral Brain Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg）

时间：2014年10月21日 星期二 13:00-14:30

地点： 生命科学学院邓佑才报告厅

邀请人: 李量

摘要：Humans and animals can better cope with threatening events if they are innately prepared for such events or have learnt from previous aversive experiences. For example, laboratory rodents innately recognize the odor of carnivores as threating. Furthermore, rodents can learn that a particular stimulus predicts an aversive event. This stimulus then becomes a conditioned fear stimulus, i.e. it induces autonomic and behavioral fear responses. Basically, the brain and body are then dedicated to fast and effective responses to aversive events.

The aim of our research group is to elucidate the neuroanatomy and neuropharmacology of innate and learned fear. In my talk, I will present different behavioral paradigms as well as different methodological approaches, we are using in our laboratory. The first part will be focused on our work on carnivore odor-induced fear, whereas the second part will be on behavioral characteristics and neural bases of fear, safety and relief learning.