Jihyun Noh

Social buffering-mediated fear response modulation: investigating synaptic activity changes in the prelimbic cortex of the medial prefrontal cortex.

Social buffering is a phenomenon in which stress is ameliorated when the subject is accompanied by a conspecific animal while being exposed to distressing stimuli. Although evidence indicates that the prelimbic cortex of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC PL) plays a prominent role in social buffering, its underlying s...