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List of works by Christopher K. Cain

A robust automated method to analyze rodent motion during fear conditioning

scientific article published on 22 August 2006

Active vs. reactive threat responding is associated with differential c-Fos expression in specific regions of amygdala and prefrontal cortex.

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Adrenergic transmission facilitates extinction of conditional fear in mice.

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Analgesic effects of adrenal chromaffin allografts: contingent on special procedures or due to experimenter bias?

scientific article published in March 2003

Antagonism of lateral amygdala alpha1-adrenergic receptors facilitates fear conditioning and long-term potentiation

scientific article published on September 24, 2010

Asymmetries in long-term and short-term plasticity at thalamic and cortical inputs to the amygdala in vivo

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Brain mechanisms of fear extinction: historical perspectives on the contribution of prefrontal cortex.

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Chronic morphine reduces pain-related disability in a rodent model of chronic, inflammatory pain

scientific article published in August 1999

Development of an aversive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task in rat.

scientific article published on 26 November 2013

Dissociable long-term cognitive deficits after frontal versus sensorimotor cortical contusions.

scientific article published in March 1998

Endogenous GluR1‐containing AMPA receptors translocate to asymmetric synapses in the lateral amygdala during the early phase of fear memory formation: An electron microscopic immunocytochemical study

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Escape from fear: a detailed behavioral analysis of two atypical responses reinforced by CS termination

scientific article published in October 2007

Evidence for recovery of fear following immediate extinction in rats and humans

scientific article published on 28 May 2008

Fear and safety learning differentially affect synapse size and dendritic translation in the lateral amygdala.

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Heterogeneity in signaled active avoidance learning: substantive and methodological relevance of diversity in instrumental defensive responses to threat cues

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Incomplete nigrostriatal dopaminergic cell loss and partial reductions in striatal dopamine produce akinesia, rigidity, tremor and cognitive deficits in middle-aged rats

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L-type voltage-gated calcium channels are required for extinction, but not for acquisition or expression, of conditional fear in mice.

scientific article published in October 2002

Lesions of lateral or central amygdala abolish aversive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in rats

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Like extinction, latent inhibition of conditioned fear in mice is blocked by systemic inhibition of L-type voltage-gated calcium channels

scientific article published in September 2004

Medial amygdala lesions selectively block aversive pavlovian-instrumental transfer in rats

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Molecular mechanisms of fear learning and memory.

scientific article published on October 2011

Pain-related disability and effects of chronic morphine in the adjuvant-induced arthritis model of chronic pain.

scientific article published in July 1997

Reducing shock imminence eliminates poor avoidance in rats

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Sidman instrumental avoidance initially depends on lateral and basal amygdala and is constrained by central amygdala-mediated Pavlovian processes.

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Stability of presynaptic vesicle pools and changes in synapse morphology in the amygdala following fear learning in adult rats.

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Stimulation-induced transient changes in neuronal activity, blood flow and N-acetylaspartate content in rat prefrontal cortex: a chemogenetic fMRS-BOLD study

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

Synapses lacking astrocyte appear in the amygdala during consolidation of Pavlovian threat conditioning.

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Taking action in the face of threat: neural synchronization predicts adaptive coping.

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Targeting memory processes with drugs to prevent or cure PTSD

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Temporally massed CS presentations generate more fear extinction than spaced presentations

scientific article published in October 2003

The L-type calcium channel blocker nifedipine impairs extinction, but not reduced contingency effects, in mice

scientific article published on May 2005

The Neural Foundations of Reaction and Action in Aversive Motivation.

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The role of amygdala nuclei in the expression of auditory signaled two-way active avoidance in rats.

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Therapeutic utility of non-peptidic CRF1 receptor antagonists in anxiety, depression, and stress-related disorders: Evidence from animal models

scientific article published on September 6, 2010