'Anxiety' Cells Identified in the Brain's Hippocampus (VIDEO)

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Researchers at Columbia and UCSF have found brain cells that light up when a mouse is anxious.

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Please credit the lab of Rene Hen, PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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