List of works by Stephen Maren

A negative correlation between the induction of long-term potentiation and activation of immediate early genes

scientific article published in August 1991

A role for amygdaloid PKA and PKC in the acquisition of long-term conditional fear memories in rats

scientific article published in September 2000

Allergy immunotherapy as an early intervention in patients with child-onset atopic asthma

scientific article published on 02 November 2005

Allopregnanolone in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis modulates contextual fear in rats

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Allopregnanolone induces state-dependent fear via the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

An acid-sensing channel sows fear and panic

scientific article published in November 2009

Animal models of fear relapse.

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Appetitive motivational states differ in their ability to augment aversive fear conditioning in rats (Rattus norvegicus).

scientific article published in July 1998

Associative structure of fear memory after basolateral amygdala lesions in rats

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Auditory fear conditioning increases CS-elicited spike firing in lateral amygdala neurons even after extensive overtraining

scientific article published in November 2000

Auditory-evoked spike firing in the lateral amygdala and Pavlovian fear conditioning: mnemonic code or fear bias?

scientific article published in December 2003

Author Correction: Hippocampus-driven feed-forward inhibition of the prefrontal cortex mediates relapse of extinguished fear

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Basolateral amygdaloid multi-unit neuronal correlates of discriminative avoidance learning in rabbits

scientific article published in May 1991

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis regulates fear to unpredictable threat signals

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Breaking down fear memory (commentary on Meins et al.).

scientific article published on 24 May 2010

Building and burying fear memories in the brain.

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Can fear extinction be enhanced? A review of pharmacological and behavioral findings

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Central and basolateral amygdala neurons crash the aversive conditioning party: Theoretical comment on Rorick-Kehn and Steinmetz (2005).

scientific article published in October 2005

Chandelier Cells Illuminate Inhibitory Control of Prefrontal-Amygdala Outputs

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Changes in anxiety-related behaviors and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity in mice lacking the 5-HT-3A receptor

scientific article published on June 2004

Characterization of pharmacoresistance to benzodiazepines in the rat Li-pilocarpine model of status epilepticus

scientific article published in August 2002

Common neurocircuitry mediating drug and fear relapse in preclinical models

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

Context-dependent neuronal activity in the lateral amygdala represents fear memories after extinction.

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Contextual and auditory fear conditioning are mediated by the lateral, basal, and central amygdaloid nuclei in rats

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Contextual and temporal modulation of extinction: behavioral and biological mechanisms.

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Differential effects of ketamine and MK-801 on the induction of long-term potentiation

scientific article published on May 1, 1991

Differential roles for hippocampal areas CA1 and CA3 in the contextual encoding and retrieval of extinguished fear

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Distinct regions of the periaqueductal gray are involved in the acquisition and expression of defensive responses.

scientific article published in May 1998

Dynamic amino acid increases in the basolateral amygdala during acquisition and expression of conditioned fear

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Early extinction after fear conditioning yields a context-independent and short-term suppression of conditional freezing in rats

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Effects of 7-nitroindazole, a neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) inhibitor, on locomotor activity and contextual fear conditioning in rats

scientific article published in August 1998

Effects of the novel NMDA receptor antagonist, CGP 39551, on field potentials and the induction and expression of LTP in the dentate gyrus in vivo

scientific article published in July 1992

Electrolytic lesions of the dorsal hippocampus disrupt renewal of conditional fear after extinction

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Electrolytic lesions of the fimbria/fornix, dorsal hippocampus, or entorhinal cortex produce anterograde deficits in contextual fear conditioning in rats

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Electrolytic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex do not interfere with long-term memory of extinction of conditioned fear.

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Emergence neophobia correlates with hippocampal and cortical glutamate receptor binding in rats

scientific article published in July 1994

Enhancement of auditory fear conditioning after housing in a complex environment is attenuated by prior treatment with amphetamine

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Enhancement of striatum-dependent memory by conditioned fear is mediated by beta-adrenergic receptors in the basolateral amygdala

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Ensemble coding of context-dependent fear memory in the amygdala

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Estrogen modulates sexually dimorphic contextual fear conditioning and hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) in rats(1).

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Event boundaries do not cause the immediate extinction deficit after Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Extinction after fear memory reactivation fails to eliminate renewal in rats.

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Factors regulating the effects of hippocampal inactivation on renewal of conditional fear after extinction.

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Fear Expression Suppresses Medial Prefrontal Cortical Firing in Rats

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Fear extinction in rodents

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Fear of the unexpected: hippocampus mediates novelty-induced return of extinguished fear in rats

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Fear renewal preferentially activates ventral hippocampal neurons projecting to both amygdala and prefrontal cortex in rats.

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Flexibility in the face of fear: Hippocampal-prefrontal regulation of fear and avoidance

scientific article published on 7 October 2017

Glutamate receptors in the medial geniculate nucleus are necessary for expression and extinction of conditioned fear in rats

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Hippocampal and prefrontal projections to the basal amygdala mediate contextual regulation of fear after extinction.

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Hippocampal inactivation disrupts contextual retrieval of fear memory after extinction.

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Hippocampal inactivation disrupts the acquisition and contextual encoding of fear extinction.

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Hippocampal involvement in contextual modulation of fear extinction.

scientific article published on January 2007

Hippocampal regulation of context-dependent neuronal activity in the lateral amygdala

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Hippocampus and Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats: muscimol infusions into the ventral, but not dorsal, hippocampus impair the acquisition of conditional freezing to an auditory conditional stimulus

scientific article published in February 2004

Hippocampus-driven feed-forward inhibition of the prefrontal cortex mediates relapse of extinguished fear

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Hitting Ras where it counts: Ras antagonism in the basolateral amygdala inhibits long-term fear memory

scientific article published in January 2006

Immediate-early gene expression in the amygdala following footshock stress and contextual fear conditioning

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Individual variation in the propensity to attribute incentive salience to an appetitive cue predicts the propensity to attribute motivational salience to an aversive cue

scientific article published on 21 February 2011

Is there savings for pavlovian fear conditioning after neurotoxic basolateral amygdala lesions in rats?

scientific article published in November 2001

Lesions of the entorhinal cortex or fornix disrupt the context-dependence of fear extinction in rats

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Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine Drives Stress-Induced Increases in Basolateral Amygdala Firing and Impairs Extinction Learning

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Locus coeruleus toggles reciprocal prefrontal firing to reinstate fear

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Long-term potentiation as a substrate for memory: evidence from studies of amygdaloid plasticity and Pavlovian fear conditioning.

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Long-term potentiation in the amygdala: a mechanism for emotional learning and memory.

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Long-term potentiation is associated with increased [3H]AMPA binding in rat hippocampus

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Medial prefrontal cortex activation facilitates re-extinction of fear in rats

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Muscimol inactivation of the dorsal hippocampus impairs contextual retrieval of fear memory.

scientific article published in October 1999

NMDA receptor antagonism in the basolateral but not central amygdala blocks the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

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NMDA receptors are essential for the acquisition, but not expression, of conditional fear and associative spike firing in the lateral amygdala

scientific article published in July 2004

NMDA receptors in the CeA and BNST differentially regulate fear conditioning to predictable and unpredictable threats

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

Nature and causes of the immediate extinction deficit: a brief review

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Neural and cellular mechanisms of fear and extinction memory formation

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Neurobiology of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

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Neuroscience. The threatened brain

scientific article published in August 2007

Neurotoxic basolateral amygdala lesions impair learning and memory but not the performance of conditional fear in rats.

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

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Noradrenergic Modulation of Fear Conditioning and Extinction.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Noradrenergic blockade stabilizes prefrontal activity and enables fear extinction under stress

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Nuclear disconnection within the amygdala reveals a direct pathway to fear.

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Nucleus Reuniens Is Required for Encoding and Retrieving Precise, Hippocampal-Dependent Contextual Fear Memories in Rats.

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Nucleus reuniens inactivation does not impair consolidation or reconsolidation of fear extinction

scientific article published in 2022

Out with the old and in with the new: Synaptic mechanisms of extinction in the amygdala

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Overexpression of hAPPswe impairs rewarded alternation and contextual fear conditioning in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

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Overtraining does not mitigate contextual fear conditioning deficits produced by neurotoxic lesions of the basolateral amygdala.

scientific article published in April 1998

PKMzeta maintains spatial, instrumental, and classically conditioned long-term memories

scientific article published on 23 December 2008

Parallel augmentation of hippocampal long-term potentiation, theta rhythm, and contextual fear conditioning in water-deprived rats.

scientific article published in February 1994

Parsing Reward and Aversion in the Amygdala.

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Prefrontal projections to the thalamic nucleus reuniens mediate fear extinction

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions in Memory and Emotion

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Pretraining NMDA receptor blockade in the basolateral complex, but not the central nucleus, of the amygdala prevents savings of conditional fear

scientific article published in August 2003

Properties and mechanisms of long-term synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain: relationships to learning and memory.

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Protein synthesis in the amygdala, but not the auditory thalamus, is required for consolidation of Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

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Putting the brakes on fear

scientific article published on November 2013

Recent fear is resistant to extinction

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Reciprocal patterns of c-Fos expression in the medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala after extinction and renewal of conditioned fear

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Relapse of extinguished fear after exposure to a dangerous context is mitigated by testing in a safe context

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Renewal of extinguished fear activates ventral hippocampal neurons projecting to the prelimbic and infralimbic cortices in rats

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Reply to vazdarjanova

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Retrograde abolition of conditional fear after excitotoxic lesions in the basolateral amygdala of rats: absence of a temporal gradient

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Reversible Inactivation of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Prevents Reinstatement But Not Renewal of Extinguished Fear(1,2,3)

scientific article published on May 2015

Revisiting propranolol and PTSD: Memory erasure or extinction enhancement?

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Role of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis in PTSD: Insights From Preclinical Models

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in aversive learning and memory.

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Scopolamine and Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats: dose-effect analysis.

scientific article published on December 1999

Scopolamine selectively disrupts the acquisition of contextual fear conditioning in rats

scientific article published in November 1995

Seeking a spotless mind: extinction, deconsolidation, and erasure of fear memory

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Selectively Bred Rats Provide a Unique Model of Vulnerability to PTSD-Like Behavior and Respond Differentially to FGF2 Augmentation Early in Life

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Sex differences in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) and Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats: positive correlation between LTP and contextual learning

scientific article published in October 1994

Sex differences in the immediate extinction deficit and renewal of extinguished fear in rats

scientific article published in 2022

Sex, steroids, and fear

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Sexually dimorphic perforant path long-term potentiation (LTP) in urethane-anesthetized rats

scientific article published in August 1995

Sign-tracking to an appetitive cue predicts incubation of conditioned fear in rats

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Single prolonged stress disrupts retention of extinguished fear in rats

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Single-unit activity in the medial prefrontal cortex during immediate and delayed extinction of fear in rats

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Social modulation of learning in rats

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Strain difference in the effect of infralimbic cortex lesions on fear extinction in rats

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Stress and Fear Extinction.

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Synapse-Specific Encoding of Fear Memory in the Amygdala.

scientific article published in August 2017

Synaptic encoding of fear memories in the amygdala

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Synaptic mechanisms of associative memory in the amygdala.

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Synaptic plasticity in the basolateral amygdala induced by hippocampal formation stimulation in vivo.

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Testicular hormones do not regulate sexually dimorphic Pavlovian fear conditioning or perforant-path long-term potentiation in adult male rats.

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The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Conditioning and Extinction of Fear

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The amygdala and fear conditioning: has the nut been cracked?

scientific article published on February 1996

The amygdala is essential for the development of neuronal plasticity in the medial geniculate nucleus during auditory fear conditioning in rats.

scientific article published in March 2001

The amygdala is not necessary for unconditioned stimulus inflation after Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

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The amygdala, synaptic plasticity, and fear memory

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The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is required for the expression of contextual but not auditory freezing in rats with basolateral amygdala lesions

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The central nucleus of the amygdala is essential for acquiring and expressing conditional fear after overtraining

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The contextual brain: implications for fear conditioning, extinction and psychopathology

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The hippocampus and contextual memory retrieval in Pavlovian conditioning

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The role of contextual versus discrete drug-associated cues in promoting the induction of psychomotor sensitization to intravenous amphetamine.

scientific article published in November 2000

The startled seahorse: is the hippocampus necessary for contextual fear conditioning?

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

Threat imminence dictates the role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in contextual fear

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Ventral hippocampal muscimol disrupts context-specific fear memory retrieval after extinction in rats

scientific article published in January 2006

Water deprivation enhances fear conditioning to contextual, but not discrete, conditional stimuli in rats.

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What the amygdala does and doesn't do in aversive learning.

scientific article published on September 2003

β-Adrenoceptor Blockade in the Basolateral Amygdala, But Not the Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Rescues the Immediate Extinction Deficit.

scientific article published on 2 May 2017