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Neuroscience

D-Index
31
Citations
5517
World Ranking
9566
National Ranking
4045

Best Publications

  • Molecular Mechanisms of Fear Learning and Memory

    Joshua P. Johansen;Christopher K. Cain;Christopher K. Cain;Linnaea E. Ostroff;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Brain mechanisms of fear extinction: historical perspectives on the contribution of prefrontal cortex

    Francisco Sotres-Bayon;Christopher K. Cain;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Long-term potentiation in the amygdala: a cellular mechanism of fear learning and memory.

    Torfi Sigurdsson;Valérie Doyère;Valérie Doyère;Christopher K. Cain;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Adrenergic transmission facilitates extinction of conditional fear in mice.

    Christopher K. Cain;Ashley M. Blouin;Mark Barad

  • The role of amygdala nuclei in the expression of auditory signaled two-way active avoidance in rats

    June Seek Choi;Christopher K. Cain;Joseph E. Ledoux

  • Evidence for recovery of fear following immediate extinction in rats and humans

    Daniela Schiller;Christopher K. Cain;Nina G. Curley;Jennifer S. Schwartz

  • Fear and safety learning differentially affect synapse size and dendritic translation in the lateral amygdala

    Linnaea E. Ostroff;Christopher K. Cain;Joseph Bedont;Joseph Bedont;Marie Helene Monfils

  • Temporally massed CS presentations generate more fear extinction than spaced presentations.

    Christopher K. Cain;Ashley M. Blouin;Mark Barad

  • Sidman instrumental avoidance initially depends on lateral and basal amygdala and is constrained by central amygdala-mediated Pavlovian processes.

    Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz;Joseph E. LeDoux;Christopher K. Cain

  • L-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels Are Required for Extinction, But Not for Acquisition or Expression, of Conditional Fear in Mice

    Chris K. Cain;Ashley M. Blouin;Mark Barad

  • Dissociable long-term cognitive deficits after frontal versus sensorimotor cortical contusions.

    Mark D. Lindner;Melissa A. Plone;Chris K. Cain;Beata Frydel

  • Incomplete nigrostriatal dopaminergic cell loss and partial reductions in striatal dopamine produce akinesia, rigidity, tremor and cognitive deficits in middle-aged rats.

    Mark D Lindner;Chris K Cain;Melissa A Plone;Beata R Frydel

  • Therapeutic utility of non-peptidic CRF1 receptor antagonists in anxiety, depression, and stress-related disorders: evidence from animal models.

    John H. Kehne;Christopher K. Cain;Christopher K. Cain

  • Synapses lacking astrocyte appear in the amygdala during consolidation of pavlovian threat conditioning

    Linnaea E. Ostroff;Mustfa K. Manzur;Christopher K. Cain;Joseph E. Ledoux

  • Active vs. reactive threat responding is associated with differential c-Fos expression in specific regions of amygdala and prefrontal cortex.

    Raquel C.R. Martinez;Nikita Gupta;Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz;Robert M. Sears

  • Avoidance Problems Reconsidered.

    Christopher K Cain

  • Escape from fear: a detailed behavioral analysis of two atypical responses reinforced by CS termination.

    Christopher K. Cain;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • The L-type calcium channel blocker nifedipine impairs extinction, but not reduced contingency effects, in mice

    Christopher K. Cain;Bill P. Godsil;Shekib Jami;Mark Barad

  • Heterogeneity in signaled active avoidance learning: substantive and methodological relevance of diversity in instrumental defensive responses to threat cues.

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Justin Moscarello;Esther M. Blessing;Jo Anna Klein

  • d-Cycloserine augmentation of cognitive remediation in schizophrenia.

    Christopher K. Cain;Christopher K. Cain;Margaret McCue;Iruma Bello;Timothy Creedon

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