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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gregory J. Quirk is affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans a range of topics with particular focus on memory, neural mechanisms, neuroendocrine regulation, behavior, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and functional brain connectivity.

Quirk's research fields include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study encompass:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Frequent publication venues where Quirk has contributed include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Significant recent papers by Quirk are:

  • Divergent projections of the prelimbic cortex bidirectionally regulate active avoidance, 2020, eLife
  • Functional disruption in prefrontal-striatal network in obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2020, Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
  • Characterizing Different Strategies for Resolving Approach-Avoidance Conflict, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Time-Dependent Recruitment of Prelimbic Prefrontal Circuits for Retrieval of Fear Memory, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Building a Diverse Workforce and Thinkforce to Reduce Health Disparities, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Quirk include:

  • María M. Diehl
  • Steven A. Rasmussen
  • Suzanne N. Haber
  • Mary L. Phillips
  • Héctor Bravo-Rivera

In recognition of contributions to scientific research, Quirk was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction

    Mohammed R. Milad;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Neural Mechanisms of Extinction Learning and Retrieval

    Gregory J Quirk;Devin Mueller

  • Neuronal signalling of fear memory.

    Stephen Maren;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Fear Extinction as a Model for Translational Neuroscience: Ten Years of Progress

    Mohammed R. Milad;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Recall of fear extinction in humans activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in concert.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Christopher I. Wright;Christopher I. Wright;Scott P. Orr;Scott P. Orr;Roger K. Pitman

  • Dissociable Roles of Prelimbic and Infralimbic Cortices, Ventral Hippocampus, and Basolateral Amygdala in the Expression and Extinction of Conditioned Fear

    Demetrio Sierra-Mercado;Nancy Padilla-Coreano;Gregory J Quirk

  • The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the recovery of extinguished fear.

    Gregory J. Quirk;Gregory K. Russo;Jill L. Barron;Kelimer Lebron

  • Stimulation of medial prefrontal cortex decreases the responsiveness of central amygdala output neurons.

    Gregory J. Quirk;Ekaterina Likhtik;Joe Guillaume Pelletier;Denis Paré

  • New vistas on amygdala networks in conditioned fear.

    Denis Paré;Gregory J. Quirk;Joseph E. Ledoux

  • Fear conditioning enhances short-latency auditory responses of lateral amygdala neurons: parallel recordings in the freely behaving rat.

    Gregory J. Quirk;J. Christopher Repa;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • The organization of the rat motor cortex: a microstimulation mapping study

    Edward J. Neafsey;E.L. Bold;G. Haas;K.M. Hurley-Gius

  • Extinction circuits for fear and addiction overlap in prefrontal cortex

    Jamie Peters;Peter W. Kalivas;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Prefrontal mechanisms in extinction of conditioned fear.

    Gregory J. Quirk;René Garcia;Francisco González-Lima

  • Prefrontal involvement in the regulation of emotion: convergence of rat and human studies

    Gregory J Quirk;Jennifer S Beer

  • Microstimulation reveals opposing influences of prelimbic and infralimbic cortex on the expression of conditioned fear

    Ivan Vidal-Gonzalez;Benjamín Vidal-Gonzalez;Scott L. Rauch;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Fear Conditioning Enhances Different Temporal Components of Tone-Evoked Spike Trains in Auditory Cortex and Lateral Amygdala

    Gregory J Quirk;Jorge L Armony;Joseph E LeDoux

  • Fear extinction in rats: implications for human brain imaging and anxiety disorders.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Scott L. Rauch;Roger K. Pitman;Gregory J. Quirk

  • The firing of hippocampal place cells in the dark depends on the rat's recent experience

    GJ Quirk;RU Muller;JL Kubie

  • Prefrontal control of fear: more than just extinction.

    Francisco Sotres-Bayon;Gregory J Quirk

  • Activity in Prelimbic Cortex Is Necessary for the Expression of Learned, But Not Innate, Fears

    Kevin A. Corcoran;Gregory J. Quirk;Gregory J. Quirk

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammed R Milad
Mohammed R Milad The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux New York University
Suzanne N. Haber
Suzanne N. Haber University of Rochester Medical Center
Scott L. Rauch
Scott L. Rauch McLean Hospital
Denis Paré
Denis Paré Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Benjamin D. Greenberg Brown University
Scott P. Orr
Scott P. Orr Harvard University
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Carol Dobson-Stone
Carol Dobson-Stone University of Sydney
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia

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