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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 26.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Brain Res. 2016 Sep 1;316:225–233. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.08.051

Table 1.

Definitions of brain region abbreviations.

ACC Anterior cingulate cortex
AMG Amygdala
BLA Basolateral amygdala
BNST Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
CeA Central amygdala
CG Central geniculate
DHA Dorsal hypothalamus
DLG Dorsolateral geniculate
ENT Entorhinal
HP Hippocampus
IC Insular cortex
IL Infralimbic cortex
IPN Interpeduncular
LS Lateral septum
MC Motor cortex
MeA Medial amygdala
MP Magnocellular precommissural
MPOA Medial preoptic area
NAc Nucleus accumbens
OC Olfactory cortex
PAG Periaqueductal gray
PaS Parasubiculum
PB Parabrachial
PeRh Perirhinal cortex
PFC Prefrontal Cortex
PL Prelimbic cortex
POST Posterior subiculum
PVN Paraventricular nucleus
PVT Paraventricular thalamus
RS Retrosplenial
SN Substantia nigra
SSp Primary somatosensory cortex
SSs Secondary somatosensory cortex
TC Temporal cortex
VAL Ventral anterior lateral thalamus
VMH Ventromedial hypothalamus
VP Ventral Pallidum
VTA Ventral tegmental area