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Overview

Jeansok J. Kim is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant presence in related subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function

Recent publications by Jeansok J. Kim and their collaborators provide insight into ongoing research interests. These include:

  • Neurocognitive effects of stress: a metaparadigm perspective, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science and opportunities for accelerating discovery, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Ecological analysis of Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats, 2022, Communications Biology
  • The Risky Closed Economy: A Holistic, Longitudinal Approach to Studying Fear and Anxiety in Rodents, 2020, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • 'Fearful-place' coding in the amygdala-hippocampal network, 2021, eLife

The scientist has published frequently in several venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Collaborative work is a feature of their career. Frequent co-authors include Eun Joo Kim, Jeiwon Cho, Sanggeon Park, Bryan P. Schuessler, and Yeowool Huh. These partnerships have contributed to the breadth and continuity of research output.

Best Publications

  • Modality-specific retrograde amnesia of fear.

    Jeansok J. Kim;Michael S. Fanselow

  • The stressed hippocampus, synaptic plasticity and lost memories

    Jeansok J. Kim;David M. Diamond

  • Neural circuits and mechanisms involved in Pavlovian fear conditioning: A critical review

    Jeansok J. Kim;Min Whan Jung

  • Effects of amygdala, hippocampus, and periaqueductal gray lesions on short- and long-term contextual fear.

    Jeansok J. Kim;Richard A. Rison;Michael S. Fanselow

  • PKCγ mutant mice exhibit mild deficits in spatial and contextual learning

    Asa Abeliovich;Richard Paylor;Chong Chen;Jeansok J. Kim

  • Stress Effects on the Hippocampus: A Critical Review.

    Eun Joo Kim;Blake Pellman;Jeansok J. Kim

  • Amygdala Is Critical for Stress-Induced Modulation of Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation and Learning

    Jeansok J. Kim;Hongjoo J. Lee;Jung Soo Han;Mark G. Packard

  • Hippocampectomy impairs the memory of recently, but not remotely, acquired trace eyeblink conditioned responses.

    Jeansok J. Kim;Robert E. Clark;Richard F. Thompson

  • Stress: metaplastic effects in the hippocampus

    Jeansok J Kim;Kenneth S Yoon

  • Importance of the Intracellular Domain of NR2 Subunits for NMDA Receptor Function In Vivo

    Rolf Sprengel;Bettina Suchanek;Carla Amico;Rossella Brusa

  • Behavioral stress modifies hippocampal plasticity through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation

    Jeansok J. Kim;Michael R. Foy;Richard F. Thompson

  • Acquisition of contextual Pavlovian fear conditioning is blocked by application of an NMDA receptor antagonist D,L-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid to the basolateral amygdala

    Michael S. Fanselow;Jeansok J. Kim

  • Deficient Cerebellar Long-Term Depression, Impaired Eyeblink Conditioning, and Normal Motor Coordination in GFAP Mutant Mice

    Katsuei Shibuki;Hiroshi Gomi;Lu Chen;Shaowen Bao

  • Impaired motor coordination correlates with persistent multiple climbing fiber innervation in PKCγ mutant mice

    Chong Chen;Chong Chen;Masanobu Kano;Asa Abeliovich;Asa Abeliovich;Lu Chen

  • Cerebellar circuits and synaptic mechanisms involved in classical eyeblink conditioning

    Jeansok J. Kim;Richard E. Thompson

  • Effects of stress and hippocampal NMDA receptor antagonism on recognition memory in rats.

    Kevin B. Baker;Jeansok J. Kim

  • Amygdalar NMDA Receptors are Critical for New Fear Learning in Previously Fear-Conditioned Rats

    Hongjoo Lee;Jeansok J. Kim

  • N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist APV blocks acquisition but not expression of fear conditioning.

    Jeansok J. Kim;Joseph P. DeCola;Jesus Landeira-Fernandez;Michael S. Fanselow

  • Mammalian brain substrates of aversive classical conditioning.

    David G. Lavond;Jeansok J. Kim;Richard F. Thompson

  • Prefrontal cortex and hippocampus subserve different components of working memory in rats.

    Taejib Yoon;Jeffrey Okada;Min W. Jung;Jeansok J. Kim

  • Inhibitory Cerebello-Olivary Projections and Blocking Effect in Classical Conditioning

    Jeansok J. Kim;David J. Krupa;Richard F. Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard F. Thompson
Richard F. Thompson University of Southern California
Michael S. Fanselow
Michael S. Fanselow University of California, Los Angeles
Shaowen Bao
Shaowen Bao University of Arizona
Lu Chen
Lu Chen Stanford University
Fred J. Helmstetter
Fred J. Helmstetter University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Mark G. Baxter
Mark G. Baxter Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ja Wook Koo
Ja Wook Koo Korea Brain Research Institute
Joseph E. Steinmetz
Joseph E. Steinmetz The Ohio State University
Allan R. Wagner
Allan R. Wagner Yale University

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