About the Study

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour

Study title: “Neuronal activity in the human amygdala and hippocampus enhances emotional memory encoding.”

Authors: Salman Ehtesham Qasim (Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Uma Rani Mohan (Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke), Joel Stein (Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania), and Joshua Jacobs (Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Neurological Surgery, Columbia University). Both Qasim and Mohan were graduate students in Joshua Jacobs’ lab at Columbia Engineering when beginning this project.

This work was supported by NIH grants U01-NS113198 and R01-MH104606.

COI: The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.