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Overview

K. Matthew Lattal is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on behavioral neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience.

The main fields of study in Lattal's work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these fields, key subfields of study include:

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

Their research addresses several main topics, such as:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Lattal has published frequently in several scientific journals. The venues with the highest number of publications are:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Behavioural Processes
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Learning & Memory

Recent notable papers by Lattal include:

  • Stress, associative learning, and decision-making (2023) published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Habituation: It's not what you think it is (2023) published in Behavioural Processes
  • Persistent effects of acute trauma on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (2022) published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Acute stress persistently alters instrumental motivation without affecting appetitive Pavlovian conditioning, extinction, or contextual renewal (2023) published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Developments in associative theory: A tribute to the contributions of Robert A. Rescorla (2022) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition

Lattal has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Rifka C. Derman
  • Ruth M. Colwill
  • Andrew R. Delamater
  • Jacqueline Giovanniello
  • Christian Bravo-Rivera

Best Publications

  • Molecular mechanisms of memory acquisition, consolidation and retrieval

    Ted Abel;K.Matthew Lattal

  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Enhance Memory and Synaptic Plasticity via CREB: CBP-Dependent Transcriptional Activation

    Christopher G. Vecsey;Joshua D. Hawk;K. Matthew Lattal;Joel M. Stein

  • Systemic or Intrahippocampal Delivery of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Facilitates Fear Extinction

    K. Matthew Lattal;Ruth M. Barrett;Marcelo A. Wood

  • Large-scale topology and the default mode network in the mouse connectome

    James M. Stafford;Benjamin R. Jarrett;Oscar Miranda-Dominguez;Brian D. Mills

  • Behavioral impairments caused by injections of the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin after contextual retrieval reverse with time.

    K. Matthew Lattal;Ted Abel

  • Dopamine and extinction: a convergence of theory with fear and reward circuitry.

    Antony D. Abraham;Kim A. Neve;K. Matthew Lattal

  • Protein synthesis is required for the enhancement of long-term potentiation and long-term memory by spaced training.

    Matthew T. Scharf;Newton H. Woo;K. Matthew Lattal;Jennie Z. Young

  • Different requirements for protein synthesis in acquisition and extinction of spatial preferences and context-evoked fear.

    K. Matthew Lattal;Ted Abel

  • Modulation of Chromatin Modification Facilitates Extinction of Cocaine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference

    Melissa Malvaez;Carles Sanchis-Segura;Carles Sanchis-Segura;Darren Vo;K. Matthew Lattal

  • Increasing histone acetylation in the hippocampus-infralimbic network enhances fear extinction.

    James M. Stafford;Jonathan D. Raybuck;Andrey E. Ryabinin;K. Matthew Lattal

  • Bridging the interval: theory and neurobiology of trace conditioning.

    Jonathan D. Raybuck;K. Matthew Lattal

  • Epigenetics and persistent memory: implications for reconsolidation and silent extinction beyond the zero

    K Matthew Lattal;Marcelo A Wood

  • Postretrieval propranolol disrupts a cocaine conditioned place preference

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  • Double dissociation of amygdala and hippocampal contributions to trace and delay fear conditioning.

    Jonathan D. Raybuck;K. Matthew Lattal

  • Overexpectation in appetitive Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning

    K. Matthew Lattal;Sadahiko Nakajima

  • Post-retrieval disruption of a cocaine conditioned place preference by systemic and intrabasolateral amygdala β2- and α1-adrenergic antagonists

    Rick E. Bernardi;Andrey E. Ryabinin;S. Paul Berger;S. Paul Berger;K. Matthew Lattal

  • 9YExtinction : Does it or doesn't it? The requirement of altered gene activity and new protein synthesis

    K. Matthew Lattal;Jelena Radulovic;Ken Lukowiak

  • Epigenetics and memory: causes, consequences and treatments for post‐traumatic stress disorder and addiction

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  • Transgenic Inhibition of Neuronal Protein Kinase A Activity Facilitates Fear Extinction

    Carolina Isiegas;Alice Park;Eric R. Kandel;Ted Abel

  • Effects of ethanol on encoding, consolidation, and expression of extinction following contextual fear conditioning.

    K. Matthew Lattal

  • Effects of d-cycloserine on extinction and reconditioning of ethanol-seeking behavior in mice

    Peter A. Groblewski;K. Matthew Lattal;Christopher L. Cunningham

  • Substance abuse, memory, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Megan E. Tipps;Jonathan D. Raybuck;K. Matthew Lattal

Frequent Co-Authors

Ted Abel
Ted Abel University of Iowa
Marcelo A. Wood
Marcelo A. Wood University of California, Irvine
Andrey E. Ryabinin
Andrey E. Ryabinin Oregon Health & Science University
Bruce T. Lamb
Bruce T. Lamb Indiana University
Seth D. Norrholm
Seth D. Norrholm Wayne State University
Timothy A. Shahan
Timothy A. Shahan Utah State University
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Suzanne H. Mitchell
Suzanne H. Mitchell Oregon Health & Science University
Joel T. Nigg
Joel T. Nigg Oregon Health & Science University
Barbara O. Rothbaum
Barbara O. Rothbaum Emory University

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