Figure 6.
mPFC-BLA disconnection. Acute stressful experience disrupted learning in females with ipsilateral mPFC-BLA lesions. In contrast, conditioned responding of animals with contralateral lesions was not impaired by stress and was similar to the performance of the unstressed females with both types of lesions. Thus, communication between the mPFC and BLA is necessary to impair learning after a stressful event in females.
