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Mouse brains wired for empathy?

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A study in this issue reports that mice can be fear conditioned through observation of other mice receiving aversive stimuli and identifies some of the brain regions involved in this observational fear learning.

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Figure 1: Possible substrate for a shared representation of pain in a demonstrator mouse receiving a foot shock and in an observer mouse witnessing the event.

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Grenier, F., Lüthi, A. Mouse brains wired for empathy?. Nat Neurosci 13, 406–408 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0410-406

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