Regions included in Experiment 1.

<p>The columns show the name of each region, the abbreviations, the source of the anatomical definition adopted, and the color code used in the following figures for each group of regions. Color code—Red: basolateral complex of the amygdala; Dark Red: central amygdala nuclei; Blue: dorsal hippocampus; Light Blue: ventral hippocampus; Green: parahippocampal regions; Purple: prefrontal cortices; Magenta: retrosplenial cortices. A) 3D diagram of a rat brain showing anatomical localization of the included regions. Representative photomicrograph of a pCREB immunolabelled brain slice before (B) and after (C) nuclei quantification and region parcellation by Cellprofiler. The scale bars indicate 200 μm.