A Central Amygdala Input to the Parafascicular Nucleus Controls Comorbid Pain in Depression

Affiliations

• 1 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Biophysics and Neurobiology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, PR China.
• 2 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Biophysics and Neurobiology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, PR China; Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Pain Management, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, PR China.
• 3 Department of Psychology, Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei 230026, PR China.
• 4 State Key Laboratory of Virology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT), Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, PR China.
• 5 Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Pain Management, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, PR China.
• 6 Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of the Ministry of Health of China, Key Laboratory of Neurobiology of Zhejiang Province, Department of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, PR China.
• 7 Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
• 8 Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
• 9 Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: zzpan@mdanderson.org.
• 10 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Biophysics and Neurobiology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, PR China. Electronic address: zhizhang@ustc.edu.cn.