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Overview

Markus Fendt is affiliated with Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily spans neuroscience with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, social psychology, molecular biology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work covers main topics such as neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, sleep and wakefulness research, stress responses and cortisol, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, and receptor mechanisms and signaling.

Notable recent publications by Markus Fendt include:

  • Context and trade-offs characterize real-world threat detection systems: A review and comprehensive framework to improve research practice and resolve the translational crisis (2020), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Infralimbic cortex activity is required for the expression but not the acquisition of conditioned safety (2020), Psychopharmacology
  • Orexin deficiency modulates cognitive flexibility in a sex-dependent manner (2020), Genes Brain & Behavior
  • Let's get wild: A review of free-ranging rat assays as context-enriched supplements to traditional laboratory models (2021), Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • Corticosterone Treatment and Incubation Time After Contextual Fear Conditioning Synergistically Induce Fear Memory Generalization in Neuropeptide S Receptor-Deficient Mice (2020), Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Judith C. Kreutzmann
  • Yasushi Kiyokawa
  • Archana Durairaja
  • Evelyn Kahl
  • Michael H. Parsons

Markus Fendt's publications have appeared in a variety of journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Cells

Best Publications

  • The neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of conditioned fear.

    M. Fendt;M.S. Fanselow

  • Brain stem circuits mediating prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex

    Markus Fendt;Liang Li;John S. Yeomans

  • Detection and avoidance of a carnivore odor by prey

    David M. Ferrero;Jamie K. Lemon;Daniela Fluegge;Stan L. Pashkovski

  • Temporary inactivation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis but not of the amygdala blocks freezing induced by trimethylthiazoline, a component of fox feces.

    Markus Fendt;Thomas Endres;Raimund Apfelbach

  • Synchronous evolution of an odor biosynthesis pathway and behavioral response

    Qian Li;Wayne J. Korzan;David M. Ferrero;Rui B. Chang

  • TMT-induced autonomic and behavioral changes and the neural basis of its processing

    Markus Fendt;Thomas Endres;Catherine A. Lowry;Raimund Apfelbach

  • The metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)-pyridine (MPEP) blocks fear conditioning in rats

    Brigitte Schulz;Markus Fendt;Fabrizio Gasparini;Kurt Lingenhöhl

  • mGluR7 facilitates extinction of aversive memories and controls amygdala plasticity.

    M Fendt;S Schmid;D R Thakker;D R Thakker;L H Jacobson

  • Pain-relief learning in flies, rats, and man: basic research and applied perspectives

    Bertram Gerber;Ayse Yarali;Sören Diegelmann;Carsten T. Wotjak

  • Behavioural fear and heart rate responses of horses after exposure to novel objects: effects of habituation

    Lisa Leiner;Markus Fendt

  • Temporary inactivation of the medial and basolateral amygdala differentially affects TMT-induced fear behavior in rats.

    Martin Müller;Markus Fendt

  • Injections of the NMDA Receptor Antagonist Aminophosphonopentanoic Acid into the Lateral Nucleus of the Amygdala Block the Expression of Fear-Potentiated Startle and Freezing

    Markus Fendt

  • 2,3,5-Trimethyl-3-thiazoline (TMT), a component of fox odor - just repugnant or really fear-inducing?

    Markus Fendt;Thomas Endres

  • Exposure to Urine of Canids and Felids, but not of Herbivores, Induces Defensive Behavior in Laboratory Rats

    Markus Fendt;Markus Fendt

  • Noradrenaline Transmission within the Ventral Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Is Critical for Fear Behavior Induced by Trimethylthiazoline, a Component of Fox Odor

    Markus Fendt;Stephanie Siegl;Björn Steiniger-Brach

  • Behavioral changes induced in rats by exposure to trimethylthiazoline, a component of fox odor.

    Thomas Endres;Raimund Apfelbach;Markus Fendt

  • Identification of a novel series of orexin receptor antagonists with a distinct effect on sleep architecture for the treatment of insomnia.

    Claudia Betschart;Samuel Hintermann;Dirk Behnke;Simona Cotesta

  • The dual orexin receptor antagonist almorexant induces sleep and decreases orexin-induced locomotion by blocking orexin 2 receptors.

    Géraldine M. Mang;Thomas Dürst;Hugo Bürki;Stefan Imobersteg

  • Role of the substantia nigra pars reticulata in sensorimotor gating, measured by prepulse inhibition of startle in rats

    Michael Koch;Markus Fendt;Beate D Kretschmer

  • Metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved in amygdaloid plasticity.

    Markus Fendt;Susanne Schmid

  • Cholinergic modulation of the acoustic startle response in the caudal pontine reticular nucleus of the rat

    Markus Fendt;Michael Koch

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Koch
Michael Koch University of Bremen
Bertram Gerber
Bertram Gerber Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Rick Richardson
Rick Richardson University of New South Wales
Michael S. Fanselow
Michael S. Fanselow University of California, Los Angeles
Tanja Jovanovic
Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University
Herman van der Putten
Herman van der Putten Novartis (Switzerland)
Stephen D. Liberles
Stephen D. Liberles Harvard University
Olaf Riess
Olaf Riess University of Tübingen
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Markus Wöhr
Markus Wöhr Philipp University of Marburg

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