Anxiety comprises various features encompassing behavioural changes, such as increased risk avoidance behaviour, and physiological alterations, such as a rise in the respiratory rate. How these features are represented and, indeed, coordinately regulated at the level of neural circuits remains unclear. Now, two studies reveal the central role that subregions of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) have in the regulation of the anxious state.
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