Fight, Flight or Freeze: Inside the brain of a scared mouse

When a terrifying threat looms from above, mice have to make a split second decision about how to respond. To figure out some of the neurocircuitry involved, scientists have been scaring mice - and they hope to shed light on human disorders like phobias and PTSD. Read more about this study at http://nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04747-4 and find the original research paper at http://nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0078-2 Nature, 2nd May 2018