Are They Freezing More or Not Freezing Less?

Animal models are extremely helpful to be able to interrogate the brain and ask those questions that really require us to manipulate specific circuits. We can measure aniety like behavior in rodents using these mases. It turns out that the parts of the brain that are active while animals are performing this avoidance behavior, or the fear behaviors for that matter, aswell is very similar to the part of the brain when humans are anxious or afraid. And also their their overlapping with the same brain regions that patients with unciety disorders have, either over activation or under activation. So even though we might think a rodents or humans are so different when it comes to this emotional behaviors and how the brain processes them er