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Overview

D. Caroline Blanchard is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their primary research focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and social psychology. Additional subfields of interest include physiology and endocrine and autonomic systems.

The scientist's published work addresses various topics such as memory and neural mechanisms, stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, circadian rhythm and melatonin, pain mechanisms and treatments, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development. Their research also covers aspects of anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Newton S. Canteras, Joyce Mendes-Gomes, Amanda Ribeiro de Oliveira, Norberto Cysne Coimbra, and Simone Cristina Motta.

Publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Brain Research
  • Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by D. Caroline Blanchard are:

  • Uncertainty and anxiety: Evolution and neurobiology, 2024, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Sex, defense, and risk assessment: Who could ask for anything more?, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Defensive behaviors and brain regional activation changes in rats confronting a snake, 2020, Behavioural Brain Research
  • Repeated exposure of naïve and peripheral nerve-injured mice to a snake as an experimental model of post-traumatic stress disorder and its co-morbidity with neuropathic pain, 2020, Brain Research
  • Dissecting the brain's fear systems responding to snake threats, 2022, European Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Crouching as an index of fear.

    Blanchard Rj;Blanchard Dc

  • Innate and conditioned reactions to threat in rats with amygdaloid lesions.

    D C Blanchard;R J Blanchard

  • Animal models of social stress: effects on behavior and brain neurochemical systems.

    Robert J Blanchard;Christina R McKittrick;D.Caroline Blanchard

  • Antipredator defensive behaviors in a visible burrow system.

    R J Blanchard;D C Blanchard

  • Aggressive behavior in the rat.

    Robert J. Blanchard;D. Caroline Blanchard

  • Mouse defensive behaviors: pharmacological and behavioral assays for anxiety and panic.

    D.Caroline Blanchard;D.Caroline Blanchard;Guy Griebel;Robert J. Blanchard

  • Visible burrow system as a model of chronic social stress: behavioral and neuroendocrine correlates

    D.Caroline Blanchard;Robert L. Spencer;Scott M. Weiss;Robert J. Blanchard

  • Subordination stress: behavioral, brain, and neuroendocrine correlates.

    D. C. Blanchard;R. R. Sakai;R. R. Sakai;B. Mcewen;S. M. Weiss

  • Twenty-two kHz alarm cries to presentation of a predator, by laboratory rats living in visible burrow systems.

    R.J. Blanchard;D.C. Blanchard;Rachel Agullana;Scott M. Weiss

  • Passive and active reactions to fear-eliciting stimuli.

    Blanchard Rj;Blanchard Dc

  • Defensive behaviors of laboratory and wild Rattus norvegicus..

    R J Blanchard;K J Flannelly;D C Blanchard

  • Attack and defensive behaviour in the albino rat

    Blanchard Rj;Blanchard Dc;Takahashi T;Kelley Mj

  • Defense system psychopharmacology: an ethological approach to the pharmacology of fear and anxiety.

    R J Blanchard;E B Yudko;R J Rodgers;D C Blanchard;D C Blanchard

  • Risk assessment as an evolved threat detection and analysis process

    D. Caroline Blanchard;Guy Griebel;Roger Pobbe;Robert J. Blanchard

  • Chronic social stress reduces dendritic arbors in CA3 of hippocampus and decreases binding to serotonin transporter sites.

    C R McKittrick;A M Magariños;D C Blanchard;R J Blanchard

  • The characterization and modelling of antipredator defensive behavior.

    Robert J. Blanchard;D. Caroline Blanchard;John Rodgers;Scott M. Weiss

  • Human defensive behaviors to threat scenarios show parallels to fear- and anxiety-related defense patterns of non-human mammals

    D Caroline Blanchard;D Caroline Blanchard;April L Hynd;Karl A Minke;Tiffanie Minemoto

  • Attack and defense in rodents as ethoexperimental models for the study of emotion

    Robert J. Blanchard;D.Caroline Blanchard

  • Behavioral and Endocrine Change Following Chronic Predatory Stress

    Robert J Blanchard;Julia N Nikulina;Randall R Sakai;Christina McKittrick

  • Chronic Social Stress Alters Levels of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor and Arginine Vasopressin mRNA in Rat Brain

    David S. Albeck;Christina R. McKittrick;D. Caroline Blanchard;Robert J. Blanchard

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Blanchard
Robert J. Blanchard University of Hawaii at Manoa
Guy Griebel
Guy Griebel Sanofi (France)
Randall R. Sakai
Randall R. Sakai University of Cincinnati
Mu Yang
Mu Yang Columbia University
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
Newton S. Canteras
Newton S. Canteras Universidade de São Paulo
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Norberto Cysne Coimbra
Norberto Cysne Coimbra Universidade de São Paulo
R.J. Rodgers
R.J. Rodgers University of Leeds
Jacqueline N. Crawley
Jacqueline N. Crawley University of California, Davis

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