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Larry Cahill is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans several areas within psychology and neuroscience, focusing primarily on behavioral neuroscience and social psychology, with additional work in experimental and cognitive psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and management science and operations research.

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

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

They have contributed to several subfields of study, notably:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Management Science and Operations Research

Their research covers various main topics, including:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Demographic modeling and climate adaptation
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Global Health Care Issues

Cahill has authored or co-authored several papers, including:

  • Exogenous estradiol and oxytocin modulate sex differences in hippocampal reactivity during the encoding of episodic memories, 2022, NeuroImage
  • It's time to move past biases against sex differences research: Commentary on Spets and Slotnick, 2021, Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Exogenous estradiol and oxytocin modulate sex differences in hippocampal reactivity and episodic memory, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • P671. Estradiol and Oxytocin Modulate Sex Differences in Hippocampal Reactivity and Episodic Memory, 2022, Biological Psychiatry

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Marie Coenjaerts
  • Isabelle Trimborn
  • Berina Adrovic
  • Birgit Stoffel-Wagner
  • Alexandra Philipsen

Cahill's work has been published in venues such as:

  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry

Additionally, they have contributed to book publications, including work published by RAND Corporation eBooks. One of the titles is "Research Funding for Women's Health: A Modeling Study of Societal Impact: Findings for Lung Cancer," published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • MECHANISMS OF EMOTIONAL AROUSAL AND LASTING DECLARATIVE MEMORY

    Larry Cahill;James L. McGaugh

  • Why sex matters for neuroscience

    Larry Cahill

  • Beta-adrenergic activation and memory for emotional events.

    Larry Cahill;Bruce Prins;Michael Weber;Michael Weber;James L. McGaugh

  • Amygdala activity at encoding correlated with long-term, free recall of emotional information.

    Larry Cahill;Richard J. Haier;James Fallon;Michael T. Alkire

  • Pilot study of secondary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder with propranolol

    Roger K. Pitman;Kathy M. Sanders;Randall M. Zusman;Anna R. Healy

  • The amygdala and emotional memory.

    Larry Cahill;Ralf Babinsky;Hans J. Markowitsch;James L. McGaugh

  • Event-Related Activation in the Human Amygdala Associates with Later Memory for Individual Emotional Experience

    Turhan Canli;Zuo Zhao;James Brewer;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • Involvement of the amygdala in memory storage: Interaction with other brain systems

    James L. McGaugh;Larry Cahill;Benno Roozendaal

  • Enhanced Human Memory Consolidation With Post-Learning Stress: Interaction With the Degree of Arousal at Encoding

    Larry Cahill;Lukasz Gorski;Kathryn Le

  • A novel demonstration of enhanced memory associated with emotional arousal.

    Larry Cahill;James L. McGaugh

  • Sex influences on the neurobiology of learning and memory.

    Joseph M. Andreano;Larry Cahill

  • Amygdala modulation of hippocampal-dependent and caudate nucleus-dependent memory processes

    Mark G. Packard;Larry Cahill;James L. McGaugh

  • Epinephrine enhancement of human memory consolidation: interaction with arousal at encoding

    Larry Cahill;Michael T. Alkire

  • Sex-related difference in amygdala activity during emotionally influenced memory storage.

    Larry Cahill;Richard J. Haier;T. Nathan S. White;James Fallon

  • Sex-related hemispheric lateralization of amygdala function in emotionally influenced memory: an FMRI investigation.

    Larry Cahill;Melina Uncapher;Lisa Kilpatrick;Mike T. Alkire

  • Impaired declarative memory for emotional material following bilateral amygdala damage in humans.

    Ralph Adolphs;Larry Cahill;Rina Schul;Ralf Babinsky

  • Amygdala modulation of parahippocampal and frontal regions during emotionally influenced memory storage.

    Lisa A. Kilpatrick;Larry Cahill

  • Modulation of memory storage.

    Larry Cahill;James L McGaugh

  • Is the Amygdala a Locus of “Conditioned Fear”? Some Questions and Caveats

    Larry Cahill;Norman M Weinberger;Benno Roozendaal;James L McGaugh

  • Glucocorticoid Release and Memory Consolidation in Men and Women

    Joseph M. Andreano;Larry Cahill

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. McGaugh
James L. McGaugh University of California, Irvine
Michael T. Alkire
Michael T. Alkire University of California, Irvine
James H. Fallon
James H. Fallon University of California, Irvine
Ivan Izquierdo
Ivan Izquierdo Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Richard J. Haier
Richard J. Haier University of California, Irvine
Jodi A. Quas
Jodi A. Quas University of California, Irvine
Natasha B. Lasko
Natasha B. Lasko Harvard University
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire University of California, San Diego
Scott P. Orr
Scott P. Orr Harvard University
Barry Setlow
Barry Setlow University of Florida

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