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R. Frederick Westbrook

R. Frederick Westbrook

University of New South Wales
Australia

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
6812
World Ranking
8541
National Ranking
502

R. Frederick Westbrook publications per year

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1969 2025

193 publications in total across all disciplines

R. Frederick Westbrook publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where R. Frederick Westbrook sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 123 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

R. Frederick Westbrook D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where R. Frederick Westbrook sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

R. Frederick Westbrook is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with an emphasis on understanding the mechanisms underlying memory, neural processes, and behavior. The scientist's work covers a range of subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, molecular biology, and neurology.

The main topics of Westbrook's research encompass:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Westbrook's publications appear frequently in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • eLife
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Westbrook include:

  • "Reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility interact to determine greater severity of compulsivity-related problems," 2020, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • "Intermittent cafeteria diet identifies fecal microbiome changes as a predictor of spatial recognition memory impairment in female rats," 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Acquisition and extinction of second-order context conditioned fear: Role of the amygdala," 2021, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • "The neural substrates of higher-order conditioning: A review," 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Male Rat Offspring Are More Impacted by Maternal Obesity Induced by Cafeteria Diet than Females-Additive Effect of Postweaning Diet," 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Westbrook often collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Nathan M. Holmes
  • Margaret J. Morris
  • Nadeem O. Kaakoush
  • Simon Killcross
  • Vincent Laurent

Best Publications

  • The formalin test: scoring properties of the first and second phases of the pain response in rats

    Frances V. Abbott;Keith B.J. Franklin;R.Frederick Westbrook

  • Contextual and Temporal Modulation of Extinction: Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms.

    Mark E. Bouton;R. Frederick Westbrook;Kevin A. Corcoran;Stephen Maren

  • Inactivation of the infralimbic but not the prelimbic cortex impairs consolidation and retrieval of fear extinction.

    Vincent Laurent;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Why is obesity such a problem in the 21st century? The intersection of palatable food, cues and reward pathways, stress, and cognition

    Margaret J. Morris;Jessica E. Beilharz;Jayanthi Maniam;Amy C. Reichelt

  • Effects of recent exposure to a conditioned stimulus on extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

    Wan Yee Macy Chan;Hiu T. Leung;R. Frederick Westbrook;Gavan P. McNally

  • Reinstatement of fear to an extinguished conditioned stimulus: two roles for context

    R. Frederick Westbrook;Mihaela Iordanova;Gavan McNally;Rick Richardson

  • Distinct contributions of the basolateral amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex to learning and relearning extinction of context conditioned fear.

    Vincent Laurent;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Psychological and neural mechanisms of experimental extinction: a selective review.

    Andrew R. Delamater;Andrew R. Delamater;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • The basolateral amygdala is necessary for learning but not relearning extinction of context conditioned fear

    Vincent Laurent;Alain R. Marchand;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Contextual control over conditioned responding in a latent inhibition paradigm.

    R. Frederick Westbrook;Megan L. Jones;Glynis K. Bailey;Justin A. Harris

  • Predicting danger: The nature, consequences, and neural mechanisms of predictive fear learning

    Gavan P. McNally;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Opioid receptors regulate the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

    Gavan P. McNally;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Blockade of dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens impairs learning extinction of conditioned fear

    Orit Holtzman-Assif;Vincent Laurent;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Facial emotion recognition deficits following moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI): Re-examining the valence effect and the role of emotion intensity

    Hannah Rosenberg;Skye McDonald;Marie Dethier;Roy P.C. Kessels

  • Age-specific effects of voluntary exercise on memory and the older brain.

    Joyce Siette;Joyce Siette;R. Frederick Westbrook;Carl Cotman;Kuldip Sidhu

  • The effect of high fat, high sugar, and combined high fat-high sugar diets on spatial learning and memory in rodents: A meta-analysis.

    Kirsten N. Abbott;Christopher K. Arnott;R. Frederick Westbrook;Dominic M.D. Tran

  • Behavioural neuroscience: The circuit of fear.

    Pankaj Sah;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Oxytocin signaling in basolateral and central amygdala nuclei differentially regulates the acquisition, expression, and extinction of context-conditioned fear in rats.

    Emma J. Campbell-Smith;Nathan M. Holmes;Nura W. Lingawi;Marios C. Panayi

  • Spontaneous recovery of extinguished fear responses deepens their extinction: A role for error-correction mechanisms.

    Hiu Tin Leung;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Persistence of preference for a flavor presented in simultaneous compound with sucrose.

    Justin A. Harris;Fiona L. Shand;Louisa Q. Carroll;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • Opioid Receptors in the Nucleus Accumbens Regulate Attentional Learning in the Blocking Paradigm

    Mihaela D. Iordanova;Gavan P. McNally;R. Frederick Westbrook

  • The basolateral amygdala is critical for learning about neutral stimuli in the presence of danger, and the perirhinal cortex is critical in the absence of danger.

    Nathan M Holmes;Shauna L Parkes;A Simon Killcross;R Frederick Westbrook

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavan P. McNally
Gavan P. McNally University of New South Wales
Justin A. Harris
Justin A. Harris University of Sydney
Rick Richardson
Rick Richardson University of New South Wales
Skye McDonald
Skye McDonald University of New South Wales
Mark E. Bouton
Mark E. Bouton University of Vermont
Fiona Shand
Fiona Shand University of New South Wales
Lee-Fay Low
Lee-Fay Low University of Sydney
Roy P.C. Kessels
Roy P.C. Kessels Radboud University
Rosa M. Escorihuela
Rosa M. Escorihuela Autonomous University of Barcelona
Simon Killcross
Simon Killcross University of New South Wales

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