Multiple factors contribute to flight behaviors during fear conditioning

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 10402 - 14
• Main Authors: Furuyama, Takafumi, Imayoshi, Ayana, Iyobe, Toyo, Ono, Munenori, Ishikawa, Tatsuya, Ozaki, Noriyuki, Kato, Nobuo, Yamamoto, Ryo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 27.06.2023; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378/1457; 631/378/1595; Behavior; Conditioned response; Conditioned stimulus; Defensive behavior; Fear conditioning; Flight; Flight behavior; Freezing; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Tonic immobility; Unconditioned stimulus

Shifting defensive mode from one to another by the imminence of threat is crucial for survival. The transition of defensive mode from freezing to flight is observed during the modified fear conditioning, however, the flight during fear conditioning is not well characterized. To characterize the flig...