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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his ingenious analysis of the mechanisms that enable stimuli to acquire the ability to produce fear and how fear translates into specifics behaviors.
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Michael S. Fanselow is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Neuroscience.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Neurology.

The research topics addressed cover a range of areas such as Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes.

Recent publications by Michael S. Fanselow include the following papers:

  • Connectivity characterization of the mouse basolateral amygdalar complex, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Long-Term Characterization of Hippocampal Remapping during Contextual Fear Acquisition and Extinction, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Conditional and unconditional components of aversively motivated freezing, flight and darting in mice, 2022, eLife
  • Engram Size Varies with Learning and Reflects Memory Content and Precision, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • A Basomedial Amygdala to Intercalated Cells Microcircuit Expressing PACAP and Its Receptor PAC1 Regulates Contextual Fear, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael S. Fanselow include:

  • Ann N. Hoffman
  • Jeremy M. Trott
  • Sarah T. Gonzalez
  • Michael A. Conoscenti
  • Michelle G. Craske

The most common publication venues for this scientist's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neurobiology of Stress
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife

Michael S. Fanselow has been recognized with several awards, including the Troland Research Awards from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1995, for analysis of the mechanisms enabling stimuli to produce fear and behavioral responses.

Additionally, they have been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1993 and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures

    Michael S. Fanselow;Hong-Wei Dong

  • Modality-specific retrograde amnesia of fear.

    Jeansok J. Kim;Michael S. Fanselow

  • Conditioned and unconditional components of post-shock freezing.

    Michael S. Fanselow

  • Neural organization of the defensive behavior system responsible for fear

    Michael S. Fanselow

  • The neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of conditioned fear.

    M. Fendt;M.S. Fanselow

  • A perceptual-defensive-recuperative model of fear and pain

    Robert C. Bolles;Michael S. Fanselow

  • Why we think plasticity underlying Pavlovian fear conditioning occurs in the basolateral amygdala.

    Michael S Fanselow;Joseph E LeDoux

  • Dentate Gyrus NMDA Receptors Mediate Rapid Pattern Separation in the Hippocampal Network

    Thomas J. McHugh;Matthew W. Jones;Matthew W. Jones;Jennifer J. Quinn;Jennifer J. Quinn;Nina Balthasar;Nina Balthasar

  • NF-kappa B functions in synaptic signaling and behavior.

    Mollie K Meffert;Jolene M Chang;Brian J Wiltgen;Michael S Fanselow

  • Young Dentate Granule Cells Mediate Pattern Separation, whereas Old Granule Cells Facilitate Pattern Completion

    Toshiaki Nakashiba;Jesse D. Cushman;Kenneth A. Pelkey;Sophie Renaudineau

  • Neurotoxic lesions of the dorsal hippocampus and Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

    Stephen Maren;Gal Aharonov;Michael S Fanselow

  • Genetic Dissection of an Amygdala Microcircuit That Gates Conditioned Fear

    Wulf Haubensak;Prabhat S. Kunwar;Haijiang Cai;Stephane Ciocchi

  • Contextual fear, gestalt memories, and the hippocampus

    Michael S Fanselow

  • Role of interleukin-1beta in postoperative cognitive dysfunction.

    Mario Cibelli;Antonio Rei Fidalgo;Niccolò Terrando;Niccolò Terrando;Daqing Ma

  • Temporally Graded Retrograde Amnesia of Contextual Fear after Hippocampal Damage in Rats: Within-Subjects Examination

    Stephan G. Anagnostaras;Stephen Maren;Michael S. Fanselow

  • The Neuroscience of Mammalian Associative Learning

    Michael S. Fanselow;Andrew M. Poulos

  • Hippocampus and contextual fear conditioning: recent controversies and advances.

    Stephan G. Anagnostaras;Greg D. Gale;Michael S. Fanselow

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

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

  • A functional behavioristic approach to aversively motivated behavior: Predatory imminence as a determinant of the topography of defensive behavior.

    Michael S. Fanselow;Laurie S. Lester

  • Factors governing one-trial contextual conditioning

    Michael S. Fanselow

  • Role of the intrinsic modulatory systems in somesthesis

    Tony L. Yaksh

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Maren
Stephen Maren University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fred J. Helmstetter
Fred J. Helmstetter University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Stephan G. Anagnostaras
Stephan G. Anagnostaras University of California, San Diego
Jeansok J. Kim
Jeansok J. Kim University of Washington
Gregg E. Homanics
Gregg E. Homanics University of Pittsburgh
Bryce Vissel
Bryce Vissel St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
Robert C. Bolles
Robert C. Bolles University of Washington
Hong-Wei Dong
Hong-Wei Dong University of Southern California
James A. Waschek
James A. Waschek University of California, Los Angeles
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles

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