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Mohammed R. Milad is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their work extensively covers topics such as memory and neural mechanisms, stress responses and cortisol, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, functional brain connectivity studies, sleep and wakefulness research, sleep and related disorders, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Milad has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Multimodal Categorical and Dimensional Approaches to Understanding Threat Conditioning and Its Extinction in Individuals With Anxiety Disorders, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Temporally and anatomically specific contributions of the human amygdala to threat and safety learning, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Abnormal dynamic functional connectivity during fear extinction learning in PTSD and anxiety disorders, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in their research include Zhenfu Wen, Edward F. Pace-Schott, Marie-France Marin, Mira Z. Hammoud, and Muhammad Badarnee.

Milad's publications appear repeatedly in several key venues such as Neuropsychopharmacology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Biological Psychiatry, and Translational Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction

    Mohammed R. Milad;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Biological studies of post-traumatic stress disorder

    Roger K. Pitman;Ann M. Rasmusson;Ann M. Rasmusson;Karestan C. Koenen;Lisa M. Shin;Lisa M. Shin

  • Fear Extinction as a Model for Translational Neuroscience: Ten Years of Progress

    Mohammed R. Milad;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Neurobiological basis of failure to recall extinction memory in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Roger K. Pitman;Cameron B. Ellis;Andrea L. Gold

  • Recall of fear extinction in humans activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in concert.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Christopher I. Wright;Christopher I. Wright;Scott P. Orr;Scott P. Orr;Roger K. Pitman

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder: beyond segregated cortico-striatal pathways

    Mohammed R. Milad;Scott L. Rauch;Scott L. Rauch

  • Fear extinction in rats: implications for human brain imaging and anxiety disorders.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Scott L. Rauch;Roger K. Pitman;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Presence and acquired origin of reduced recall for fear extinction in PTSD: Results of a twin study

    Mohammed R. Milad;Scott P. Orr;Scott P. Orr;Natasha B. Lasko;Yuchiao Chang

  • A Role for the Human Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Fear Expression

    Mohammed R. Milad;Gregory J. Quirk;Roger K. Pitman;Scott P. Orr;Scott P. Orr

  • Thickness of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in humans is correlated with extinction memory

    Mohammed R. Milad;Brian T. Quinn;Roger K. Pitman;Scott P. Orr

  • Electrical stimulation of medial prefrontal cortex reduces conditioned fear in a temporally specific manner.

    M. R. Milad;I. Vidal-Gonzalez;G. J. Quirk

  • Estrous cycle phase and gonadal hormones influence conditioned fear extinction

    Mohammed R Milad;Sarah A Igoe;Kelimer Lebron-Milad;Juan E Novales

  • The study of fear extinction: implications for anxiety disorders.

    Bronwyn M. Graham;Mohammed R. Milad

  • Estradiol modulates medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala activity during fear extinction in women and female rats.

    Mohamed A. Zeidan;Sarah A. Igoe;Clas Linnman;Antonia Vitalo

  • Sex differences in anxiety disorders: Interactions between fear, stress, and gonadal hormones

    Lisa Y. Maeng;Mohammed R. Milad

  • The influence of gonadal hormones on conditioned fear extinction in healthy humans

    Mohammed R Milad;Mohamed A. Zeidan;Angelica Contero;Roger K. Pitman

  • The Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Anxiety Disorders

    Mohammed R. Milad;Scott L. Rauch;Scott L. Rauch

  • Sex differences, gonadal hormones and the fear extinction network: implications for anxiety disorders.

    Kelimer Lebron-Milad;Mohammed Ragib Milad

  • Altered processing of contextual information during fear extinction in PTSD: an fMRI study.

    Ansgar Rougemont-Bücking;Ansgar Rougemont-Bücking;Clas Linnman;Thomas A. Zeffiro;Mohamed A. Zeidan

  • A causal model of post-traumatic stress disorder: disentangling predisposed from acquired neural abnormalities

    Roee Admon;Mohammed R. Milad;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott P. Orr
Scott P. Orr Harvard University
Marie-France Marin
Marie-France Marin University of Quebec at Montreal
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Natasha B. Lasko
Natasha B. Lasko Harvard University
Lisa M. Shin
Lisa M. Shin Tufts University
Thomas C. Neylan
Thomas C. Neylan University of California, San Francisco
Suzanne L. Pineles
Suzanne L. Pineles Boston University
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Anne Germain
Anne Germain University of Pittsburgh

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