Prefrontal cortical regulation of fear learning

MR Gilmartin, NL Balderston, FJ Helmstetter - Trends in neurosciences, 2014 - cell.com
The prefrontal cortex regulates the expression of fear based on previously learned
information. Recently, this brain area has emerged as being crucial in the initial formation of …

Bridging the interval: theory and neurobiology of trace conditioning

JD Raybuck, KM Lattal - Behavioural processes, 2014 - Elsevier
An early finding in the behavioral analysis of learning was that conditioned responding
weakens as the conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) are separated …

Prefrontal activity links nonoverlapping events in memory

MR Gilmartin, H Miyawaki, FJ Helmstetter… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays an important role in memory. By maintaining a
working memory buffer, neurons in prelimbic (PL) mPFC may selectively contribute to …

Trace and contextual fear conditioning are impaired following unilateral microinjection of muscimol in the ventral hippocampus or amygdala, but not the medial …

MR Gilmartin, JL Kwapis, FJ Helmstetter - Neurobiology of learning and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Trace fear conditioning, in which a brief empty “trace interval” occurs between presentation
of the CS and UCS, differs from standard delay conditioning in that contributions from both …

Ventral hippocampal input to the prelimbic cortex dissociates the context from the cue association in trace fear memory

RC Twining, K Lepak, AJ Kirry… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
The PFC, through its high degree of interconnectivity with cortical and subcortical brain
areas, mediates cognitive and emotional processes in support of adaptive behaviors. This …

Functional network of contextual and temporal memory has increased amygdala centrality and connectivity with the retrosplenial cortex, thalamus, and hippocampus

TB Santos, JC Kramer-Soares… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In fear conditioning with time intervals between the conditioned (CS) and unconditioned
(US) stimuli, a neural representation of the CS must be maintained over time to be …

Common brain activations for painful and non-painful aversive stimuli

DJ Hayes, G Northoff - BMC neuroscience, 2012 - Springer
Background Identification of potentially harmful stimuli is necessary for the well-being and
self-preservation of all organisms. However, the neural substrates involved in the processing …

NR2A-and NR2B-containing NMDA receptors in the prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex differentially mediate trace, delay, and contextual fear conditioning

MR Gilmartin, JL Kwapis, FJ Helmstetter - Learning & memory, 2013 - learnmem.cshlp.org
Activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAR) in the prelimbic medial prefrontal
cortex (PL mPFC) is necessary for the acquisition of both trace and contextual fear …

Reactivation of encoding ensembles in the prelimbic cortex supports temporal associations

TB Santos, CA de Oliveira Coelho… - …, 2024 - nature.com
Fear conditioning is encoded by strengthening synaptic connections between the neurons
activated by a conditioned stimulus (CS) and those activated by an unconditioned stimulus …

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) signaling in the prefrontal cortex modulates cued fear learning, but not spatial working memory, in female …

AJ Kirry, MR Herbst, SE Poirier, MM Maskeri… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
A genetic polymorphism within the gene encoding the pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating
polypeptide (PACAP) receptor type I (PAC1R) has recently been associated with hyper …