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List of works by Gavan P. McNally

A peripheral, intracerebral, or intrathecal administration of an opioid receptor antagonist blocks illness-induced hyperalgesia in the rat.

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A role for midline and intralaminar thalamus in the associative blocking of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

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A role for the ventral pallidum in context-induced and primed reinstatement of alcohol seeking.

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

A role of nucleus accumbens dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens core, but not shell, in fear prediction error

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A short intertrial interval facilitates acquisition of context-conditioned fear and a short retention interval facilitates its expression

scientific article published in April 2006

A telemetric examination of cardiovascular function during the development of, and recovery from, opiate dependence in rats

scientific article published on 19 April 2006

Accumbal opioid receptors modulate cue competition in one-trial overshadowing.

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Accumbens shell AMPA receptors mediate expression of extinguished reward seeking through interactions with basolateral amygdala

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

Accumbens shell-hypothalamus interactions mediate extinction of alcohol seeking.

scientific article published in March 2010

Acute exposure to saccharin reduces morphine analgesia in the the rat: evidence for involvement of N-methyl-D-aspartate and peripheral opioid receptors.

scientific article published in March 2000

Altered responsivity to central administrations of corticotropin-releasing factor in rats with a history of opiate exposures

scientific article published in October 2006

Altered vulnerability to acute opiate withdrawal following stress: roles of N-methyl-D-aspartate and glucocorticoid receptors

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An extinction retrieval cue attenuates renewal but not reacquisition of alcohol seeking

scientific article published in February 2014

Anterograde amnesia for Pavlovian fear conditioning and the role of one-trial overshadowing: effects of preconditioning exposures to morphine in the rat.

scientific article published in July 2003

Appetitive-aversive interactions in Pavlovian fear conditioning.

scientific article published in June 2012

Basolateral amygdala neurons maintain aversive emotional salience.

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of punishment: implications for psychiatric disorders.

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Blocking, unblocking, and overexpectation of fear: a role for opioid receptors in the regulation of Pavlovian association formation.

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Brief optogenetic inhibition of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray augments the acquisition of Pavlovian fear conditioning

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Cocaine and amphetamine related transcript (CART) inhibits context induced reinstatement of reward seeking

scientific article published in June 2010

Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript in the nucleus accumbens shell attenuates context-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking

scientific article published in October 2012

Complementary Roles for Ventral Pallidum Cell Types and Their Projections in Relapse

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Complementary roles for amygdala and periaqueductal gray in temporal-difference fear learning

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Conditioned stimulus familiarity determines effects of MK-801 on fear extinction

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D-cycloserine does not facilitate fear extinction by reducing conditioned stimulus processing or promoting conditioned inhibition to contextual cues

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Disrupted Prediction Error Links Excessive Amygdala Activation to Excessive Fear.

scientific article published on January 2016

Distinct Accumbens Shell Output Pathways Promote versus Prevent Relapse to Alcohol Seeking

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Drug-induced GABA transporter currents enhance GABA release to induce opioid withdrawal behaviors

scientific article published on 30 October 2011

Effects of an odor paired with illness on startle, freezing, and analgesia in rats

scientific article published in February 2003

Effects of chemogenetic excitation or inhibition of the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray on the acquisition and extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

Effects of contextual or olfactory cues previously paired with morphine withdrawal on behavior and pain sensitivity in the rat.

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

scientific article published on September 30, 2010

Effects of systemic, intracerebral, or intrathecal administration of an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist on associative morphine analgesic tolerance and hyperalgesia in rats

scientific article published in August 1998

Effects of vivo morpholino knockdown of lateral hypothalamus orexin/hypocretin on renewal of alcohol seeking

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Facilitation of fear extinction by midbrain periaqueductal gray infusions of RB101(S), an inhibitor of enkephalin-degrading enzymes

scientific article published in December 2005

GABA(A) receptors determine the temporal dynamics of memory retention

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Habituation and extinction of fear recruit overlapping forebrain structures

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How contexts promote and prevent relapse to drug seeking.

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

Increased vulnerability to stress following opiate exposures: behavioral and autonomic correlates

scientific article published in August 2005

Induction of Fos proteins in regions of the nucleus accumbens and ventrolateral striatum correlates with catalepsy and stereotypic behaviours induced by morphine

scientific article published on March 2009

Induction of c-Fos and zif268 in the nociceptive amygdala parallel abstinence hyperalgesia in rats briefly exposed to morphine

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Kappa opioid receptors mediate where fear is expressed following extinction training

scientific article published on 18 January 2011

Lateral hypothalamus is required for context-induced reinstatement of extinguished reward seeking.

scientific article published in February 2009

Lateral, not medial, prefrontal cortex contributes to punishment and aversive instrumental learning.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Local anaesthetic refinement of pentobarbital euthanasia reduces abdominal writhing without affecting immunohistochemical endpoints in rats.

scientific article published in January 2017

Medial dorsal hypothalamus mediates the inhibition of reward seeking after extinction.

scientific article published on October 2010

Memory retrieval before or after extinction reduces recovery of fear in adolescent rats

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Memory retrieval, extinction, and reinstatement of alcohol seeking.

scientific article published on 7 January 2013

Naloxone prevents the rapid reacquisition but not acquisition of alcohol seeking.

scientific article published in August 2012

Neural correlates of appetitive-aversive interactions in Pavlovian fear conditioning

scientific article published on 19 March 2013

Opioid receptors in the midbrain periaqueductal gray regulate extinction of pavlovian fear conditioning.

scientific article published in August 2004

Opioid receptors in the midbrain periaqueductal gray regulate prediction errors during pavlovian fear conditioning

scientific article published in April 2006

Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens regulate attentional learning in the blocking paradigm.

scientific article published in April 2006

Opioid receptors mediate direct predictive fear learning: evidence from one-trial blocking

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Opioid receptors regulate blocking and overexpectation of fear learning in conditioned suppression

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Opioid receptors regulate retrieval of infant fear memories: effects of naloxone on infantile amnesia

scientific article published in June 2006

Opioid receptors regulate the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

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Palatable food self-administration and reinstatement are not affected by dual orexin receptor antagonism.

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Paraventricular Thalamus Balances Danger and Reward.

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Paraventricular Thalamus Controls Behavior during Motivational Conflict

scientific article published on 12 April 2019

Paraventricular thalamus mediates context-induced reinstatement (renewal) of extinguished reward seeking.

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Paraventricular thalamus: Gateway to feeding, appetitive motivation, and drug addiction

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Pharmacogenetic excitation of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex restores fear prediction error.

scientific article published on January 2015

Phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in the medial prefrontal cortex and the amygdala following memory retrieval or forgetting in developing rats.

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Placing prediction into the fear circuit

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Predicting danger: the nature, consequences, and neural mechanisms of predictive fear learning.

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Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Recovery of fear memories in rats: role of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) in infantile amnesia

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

scientific article published in January 2002

Renewal and reinstatement of the conditioned but not the unconditioned response following habituation of the unconditioned stimulus.

scientific article published on 23 March 2012

Renewal of extinguished cocaine-seeking.

scientific article published on 28 November 2007

Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the behavioral, pain modulatory, and endocrine consequences of opiate withdrawal

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Role of the striatopallidal pathway in renewal and reacquisition of alcohol seeking

scientific article published in February 2015

Selecting danger signals: dissociable roles of nucleus accumbens shell and core glutamate in predictive fear learning

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Selective down-regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors during opiate withdrawal

scientific article published in October 2003

Temporal-difference prediction errors and Pavlovian fear conditioning: role of NMDA and opioid receptors

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Temporally graded, context-specific retrograde amnesia and its alleviation by context preexposure: effects of postconditioning exposures to morphine in the rat.

scientific article published in April 2003

Test type influences the expression of lithium chloride-induced hyperalgesia.

scientific article published on December 1998

The Roles of Basolateral Amygdala Parvalbumin Neurons in Fear Learning

scientific article published in 2021

The activity of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons during shock omission predicts safety learning.

scientific article published in 2022

The dual orexin receptor antagonist TCS1102 does not affect reinstatement of nicotine-seeking

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The effects of FG7142 on overexpectation of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

scientific article published in February 2009

The effects of FG7142 on two types of forgetting in 18-day-old rats

scientific article published in December 2007

The hypothalamus and the neurobiology of drug seeking.

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

The mesolimbic dopamine activity signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

The midbrain periaqueductal gray and fear extinction: opioid receptor subtype and roles of cyclic AMP, protein kinase A, and mitogen-activated protein kinase

scientific article published in August 2005

The neural correlates and role of D1 dopamine receptors in renewal of extinguished alcohol-seeking.

scientific article published on 23 March 2007

The nucleus accumbens shell in reinstatement and extinction of drug seeking

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

The organization of defensive behavior elicited by optogenetic excitation of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

The promises and pitfalls of retrieval-extinction procedures in preventing relapse to drug seeking.

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

The role of context in re-acquisition of extinguished alcoholic beer-seeking

scientific article published in August 2011

The role of medial prefrontal cortex in extinction and reinstatement of alcohol-seeking in rats

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The role of nucleus accumbens shell in learning about neutral versus excitatory stimuli during Pavlovian fear conditioning.

scientific article published on 28 June 2010

The role of prefrontal cortex in predictive fear learning.

scientific article published in October 2010

The role of the basolateral amygdala in punishment

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The role of the lateral habenula in punishment.

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US habituation, like CS extinction, produces a decrement in conditioned fear responding that is NMDA dependent and subject to renewal and reinstatement.

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

Unblocking in Pavlovian fear conditioning

scientific article published in April 2008

Ventral Pallidum Output Pathways in Context-Induced Reinstatement of Alcohol Seeking.

scientific article published in November 2016

Ventral hippocampal kappa opioid receptors mediate the renewal of fear following extinction in the rat

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d -Cycloserine facilitates fear extinction in adolescent rats and differentially affects medial and lateral prefrontal cortex activation

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

μ-Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell mediate context-induced reinstatement (renewal) but not primed reinstatement of extinguished alcohol seeking

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