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Webinar: Neural Circuits of Survival: How the Brain Orchestrates Defensive Behavior
Creative Biolabs has invited Dr. Jonathan P. Fadok to walk us through neural circuits of survival: how the brain orchestrates defensive behaviour.

Details

When? Wednesday 25 June 2025, 16:00 to 17:00
Where? Online

Creative Biolabs has invited Dr Jonathan P Fadok to walk us through neural circuits of survival: how the brain orchestrates defensive behaviour. 


This webinar will take place at 11:00 EDT, 16:00 BST

A major focus of his research is understanding how animals rapidly switch between different defensive states, such as freezing and fleeing. Recently, his team identified a novel brain pathway—from the dorsal peduncular cortex to the amygdala—that plays a key role in promoting flight behaviour during threat. This research offers new insights into how top-down control from the cortex can regulate survival behaviours and may help inform treatments for anxiety and trauma-related disorders.

In this webinar, we will explore and review the following key points:
  • Overview of innate and learned defensive responses: freezing, flight, and their neural underpinnings
  • Introduction to the conditioned flight model and behavioural state transitions
  •  Central amygdala microcircuits and their role in defensive action selection
  • Discovery of a top-down cortico-amygdala pathway from the dorsal peduncular cortex
  • Functional relevance of downstream targets: PAG and RRF contributions to threat modulation
  • Broader implications for understanding emotional regulation and trauma-related disorders

Speaker

Jonathan P Fadok, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Tulane University and a faculty member of the Tulane Brain Institute. He also serves as a research neuroscientist at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. His research explores how the brain controls responses to threat and stress, with a focus on the neural circuits underlying fear, anxiety, and trauma-related behaviours.

Registration 

This webinar is free of charge, please register via the event page.


Contact

For any queries, please contact the event organiser at marketing@creative-biolabs.com 

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