List of works - Fred Westbrook

A bout of voluntary running enhances context conditioned fear, its extinction, and its reconsolidation

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

A common error term regulates acquisition but not extinction of causal judgments in people.

scientific article published in June 2012

A dangerous context changes the way that rats learn about and discriminate between innocuous events in sensory preconditioning

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

A high-fat high-sugar diet-induced impairment in place-recognition memory is reversible and training-dependent

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

ABA renewal is greater when extinction occurs in the same context as cue pre-exposure

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

Additional exposures reverse the latent inhibitory effects of recent and remote exposures.

scientific article published in July 2010

Additional exposures to a compound of two preexposed stimuli deepen latent inhibition.

scientific article published in October 2011

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

scientific article

Alternating or continuous exposure to cafeteria diet leads to similar shifts in gut microbiota compared to chow diet.

scientific article

An appetitive conditioned stimulus enhances fear acquisition and impairs fear extinction.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

An application of Wagner's Standard Operating Procedures or Sometimes Opponent Processes (SOP) model to experimental extinction

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

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 context conditioning proactively, but transiently, interferes with expression of counterconditioned context fear

scientific article

Associative blocking of the McCollough effect

scientific article published on 01 May 1984

Baclofen acts in the central amygdala to reduce synaptic transmission and impair context fear conditioning.

scientific article published on 2 July 2018

Bacterial lipopolysaccharides induce peripheral nerve disturbances in rats that mimic human immune-mediated polyneuropathies

scientific article published on August 1, 1997

Behavioral correlates of the decision process in a dynamic environment: post-choice latencies reflect relative value and choice evaluation.

scientific article

Behavioural neuroscience: The circuit of fear.

scientific article published in July 2008

Benzodiazepine administration prevents the use of error-correction mechanisms during fear extinction.

scientific article

Benzodiazepine treatment can impair or spare extinction, depending on when it is given.

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

Changes in cue associability across training in human causal learning.

scientific article published in October 2008

Cognitive deficits in patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, acute infective illness or depression ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1997

Commonalities and differences in the substrates underlying consolidation of first- and second-order conditioned fear.

scientific article

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

scientific article

Contextual control over the expression of fear in rats conditioned under a benzodiazepine.

scientific article published in June 2001

Counterconditioned fear responses exhibit greater renewal than extinguished fear responses

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Daily Exposure to Sucrose Impairs Subsequent Learning About Food Cues: A Role for Alterations in Ghrelin Signaling and Dopamine D2 Receptors.

scientific article

Daily access to sucrose impairs aspects of spatial memory tasks reliant on pattern separation and neural proliferation in rats.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Danger Changes the Way the Mammalian Brain Stores Information About Innocuous Events: A Study of Sensory Preconditioning in Rats

scientific article published in January 2018

Dietary effects on object recognition: The impact of high-fat high-sugar diets on recollection and familiarity-based memory

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Dietary-induced obesity disrupts trace fear conditioning and decreases hippocampal reelin expression

scientific article

Differential motivational profiles following adolescent sucrose access in male and female rats.

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Domestic pigeons (Columba livia) discriminate between photographs of male and female pigeons.

scientific article published in November 2006

Dynamics of pre- and post-choice behaviour: rats approximate optimal strategy in a discrete-trial decision task.

scientific article published in March 2015

Editorial: Impact of Diet on Learning, Memory and Cognition

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Effect of prolonged treatment with haloperidol on "emotional" defecation and movement in rats in a well-habituated environment.

scientific article

Effects of an infusion of morphine into the accumbens nucleus upon acquisition of hypoalgesic and fear responses in rats exposed to a heart stressor

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Effects of hypophysectomy and adrenalectomy on naloxone-induced analgesia

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Effects of long-term cycling between palatable cafeteria diet and regular chow on intake, eating patterns, and response to saccharin and sucrose

scientific article published on 08 November 2014

Effects of midazolam and naloxone in rats tested for sensitivity/reactivity to formalin pain in a familiar, novel or aversively conditioned environment.

scientific article published in June 1994

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

scientific article published on September 30, 2010

Effects of retention interval on latent inhibition and perceptual learning

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Extended exposure to a palatable cafeteria diet alters gene expression in brain regions implicated in reward, and withdrawal from this diet alters gene expression in brain regions associated with stress

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Extinction and Latent Inhibition Involve a Similar Form of Inhibitory Learning that is Stored in and Retrieved from the Infralimbic Cortex.

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Extinction of relapsed fear does not require the basolateral amygdala

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

Extinguished second-order conditioned fear responses are renewed but not reinstated.

scientific article

Facial emotion recognition deficits following moderate-severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): re-examining the valence effect and the role of emotion intensity.

scientific article published on 14 November 2014

Failure to obtain positive contrast when pigeons press a bar.

scientific article published on November 1973

False context fear memory in rats

scientific article

Fear conditioning and long-term potentiation in the amygdala: what really is the connection?

scientific article published on January 2008

Flavour-odour compound conditioning: odour-potentiation and flavour-attenuation.

scientific article published in February 1983

How the associative strengths of stimuli combine in compound: summation and overshadowing

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Impact of adolescent sucrose access on cognitive control, recognition memory, and parvalbumin immunoreactivity.

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Incentive contrast effects regulate responding to a flavor presented in compound with a saccharin unconditioned stimulus in rats.

scientific article

Inhibition of morphine analgesia by LPS: role of opioid and NMDA receptors and spinal glia.

scientific article

Integration of reward signalling and appetite regulating peptide systems in the control of food-cue responses.

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

Interactions in multiple schedules with different responses in each of the components.

scientific article

Lithium-induced polydipsia in birds: a comparative study and analysis of electrolyte excretion

scientific article published on 01 October 1981

Loss of latent inhibition of contextual conditioning following non-reinforced context exposure in rats

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Massed extinction trials produce better short-term but worse long-term loss of context conditioned fear responses than spaced trials.

scientific article published in July 2008

Measuring emotion perception following traumatic brain injury: The Complex Audio Visual Emotion Assessment Task (CAVEAT).

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Motivational state controls the prediction error in Pavlovian appetitive-aversive interactions.

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Naloxone-induced hypoalgesia: effects of noradrenergic antagonists and agonist

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

Naloxone-induced hypoalgesia: evidence from the formalin test.

scientific article published in June 1993

Negative patterning is easier than a biconditional discrimination.

scientific article published in October 2008

Odor-aversion learning in neonate rat pups: the role of duration of exposure to an odor.

scientific article published in March 1983

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

scientific article published in April 2006

Opioid receptors regulate the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

scientific article

Oxytocin receptor activation in the basolateral complex of the amygdala enhances discrimination between discrete cues and promotes configural processing of cues

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

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

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Phantom perception: voluntary and involuntary nonretinal vision

scientific article published on 08 April 2015

Pilot study of the effects of a workplace smoking ban on indices of smoking, cigarette craving, stress and other health behaviours

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Potentiation instead of overshadowing in the pigeon.

scientific article published on January 1979

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

scientific article

Protein synthesis in the basolateral amygdala complex is required for consolidation of a first-order fear memory, but not for consolidation of a higher-order fear memory.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Psychological and neural mechanisms of experimental extinction: a selective review

scientific article

Psychological factors, immune function and recovery from major surgery.

scientific article

Rapid reacquisition of fear to a completely extinguished context is replaced by transient impairment with additional extinction training.

scientific article published in July 2007

Rats Fed a Diet Rich in Fats and Sugars Are Impaired in the Use of Spatial Geometry.

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Rats eat a cafeteria-style diet to excess but eat smaller amounts and less frequently when tested with chow.

scientific article

Reinstatement of extinguished fear by beta-adrenergic arousal elicited by a conditioned context.

scientific article published in December 2005

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

scientific article published in January 2002

Renewal and spontaneous recovery, but not latent inhibition, are mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid in appetitive conditioning.

scientific article published in April 2009

Role of the basolateral amygdala and NMDA receptors in higher-order conditioned fear ⬇️

scientific article published on May 13, 2011

Second-order autoshaped key pecking based on an auditory stimulus

scientific article published on November 1980

Sex-specific effects of daily exposure to sucrose on spatial memory performance in male and female rats, and implications for estrous cycle stage.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Short- and long-term decrements in toxicosis-induced odor-aversion learning: The role of duration of exposure to an odor ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1981

Short-Term Flavour Memory in the Rat ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1982

Stress-induced changes in respiratory quotient, energy expenditure and locomotor activity in rats: effects of midazolam.

scientific article published in December 1994

Systemic or intra-amygdala infusion of the benzodiazepine, midazolam, impairs learning, but facilitates re-learning to inhibit fear responses in extinction.

scientific article published on 26 March 2010

Temporal dynamics of choice behavior in rats and humans: an examination of pre- and post-choice latencies

scientific article

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 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.

scientific article published in August 2013

The basolateral amygdala is critical for the acquisition and extinction of associations between a neutral stimulus and a learned danger signal but not between two neutral stimuli.

scientific article published on September 2010

The conditions that regulate formation of a false fear memory in rats

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The effect of a fading procedure upon the acquisition of control by an overshadowed auditory feature.

scientific article published on March 1970

The effects of FG 7142 on sensory-specific satiety in rats.

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

The effects of a flavour-toxicosis pairing upon long-delay, flavour aversion learning.

scientific article published in May 1982

The effects of lithium upon drinking in the pigeon and rat

scientific article published on November 1, 1979

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

scientific article

The influence of partner cues on the extinction of causal judgments in people

scientific article published on September 2014

The infralimbic cortex encodes inhibition irrespective of motivational significance

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

The role of the basolateral amygdala and infralimbic cortex in (re)learning extinction

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Two ways to deepen extinction and the difference between them.

scientific article published in October 2012

Varenicline impairs extinction and enhances reinstatement across repeated cycles of nicotine self-administration in rats.

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

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

scientific article

α2-adrenoceptor-mediated inhibition in the central amygdala blocks fear-conditioning.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

List of works by Fred Westbrook

A bout of voluntary running enhances context conditioned fear, its extinction, and its reconsolidation

A common error term regulates acquisition but not extinction of causal judgments in people.

A dangerous context changes the way that rats learn about and discriminate between innocuous events in sensory preconditioning

A high-fat high-sugar diet-induced impairment in place-recognition memory is reversible and training-dependent

ABA renewal is greater when extinction occurs in the same context as cue pre-exposure

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

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

Additional exposures reverse the latent inhibitory effects of recent and remote exposures.

Additional exposures to a compound of two preexposed stimuli deepen latent inhibition.

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

Alternating or continuous exposure to cafeteria diet leads to similar shifts in gut microbiota compared to chow diet.

An appetitive conditioned stimulus enhances fear acquisition and impairs fear extinction.

An application of Wagner's Standard Operating Procedures or Sometimes Opponent Processes (SOP) model to experimental extinction

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

Appetitive context conditioning proactively, but transiently, interferes with expression of counterconditioned context fear

Associative blocking of the McCollough effect

Baclofen acts in the central amygdala to reduce synaptic transmission and impair context fear conditioning.

Bacterial lipopolysaccharides induce peripheral nerve disturbances in rats that mimic human immune-mediated polyneuropathies

Behavioral correlates of the decision process in a dynamic environment: post-choice latencies reflect relative value and choice evaluation.

Behavioural neuroscience: The circuit of fear.

Benzodiazepine administration prevents the use of error-correction mechanisms during fear extinction.

Benzodiazepine treatment can impair or spare extinction, depending on when it is given.

Changes in cue associability across training in human causal learning.

Cognitive deficits in patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, acute infective illness or depression ⬇️

Commonalities and differences in the substrates underlying consolidation of first- and second-order conditioned fear.

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

Contextual control over the expression of fear in rats conditioned under a benzodiazepine.

Counterconditioned fear responses exhibit greater renewal than extinguished fear responses

Daily Exposure to Sucrose Impairs Subsequent Learning About Food Cues: A Role for Alterations in Ghrelin Signaling and Dopamine D2 Receptors.

Daily access to sucrose impairs aspects of spatial memory tasks reliant on pattern separation and neural proliferation in rats.

Danger Changes the Way the Mammalian Brain Stores Information About Innocuous Events: A Study of Sensory Preconditioning in Rats

Dietary effects on object recognition: The impact of high-fat high-sugar diets on recollection and familiarity-based memory

Dietary-induced obesity disrupts trace fear conditioning and decreases hippocampal reelin expression

Differential motivational profiles following adolescent sucrose access in male and female rats.

Domestic pigeons (Columba livia) discriminate between photographs of male and female pigeons.

Dynamics of pre- and post-choice behaviour: rats approximate optimal strategy in a discrete-trial decision task.

Editorial: Impact of Diet on Learning, Memory and Cognition

Effect of prolonged treatment with haloperidol on "emotional" defecation and movement in rats in a well-habituated environment.

Effects of an infusion of morphine into the accumbens nucleus upon acquisition of hypoalgesic and fear responses in rats exposed to a heart stressor

Effects of hypophysectomy and adrenalectomy on naloxone-induced analgesia

Effects of long-term cycling between palatable cafeteria diet and regular chow on intake, eating patterns, and response to saccharin and sucrose

Effects of midazolam and naloxone in rats tested for sensitivity/reactivity to formalin pain in a familiar, novel or aversively conditioned environment.

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

Effects of retention interval on latent inhibition and perceptual learning

Extended exposure to a palatable cafeteria diet alters gene expression in brain regions implicated in reward, and withdrawal from this diet alters gene expression in brain regions associated with stress

Extinction and Latent Inhibition Involve a Similar Form of Inhibitory Learning that is Stored in and Retrieved from the Infralimbic Cortex.

Extinction of relapsed fear does not require the basolateral amygdala

Extinguished second-order conditioned fear responses are renewed but not reinstated.

Facial emotion recognition deficits following moderate-severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): re-examining the valence effect and the role of emotion intensity.

Failure to obtain positive contrast when pigeons press a bar.

False context fear memory in rats

Fear conditioning and long-term potentiation in the amygdala: what really is the connection?

Flavour-odour compound conditioning: odour-potentiation and flavour-attenuation.

How the associative strengths of stimuli combine in compound: summation and overshadowing

Impact of adolescent sucrose access on cognitive control, recognition memory, and parvalbumin immunoreactivity.

Incentive contrast effects regulate responding to a flavor presented in compound with a saccharin unconditioned stimulus in rats.

Inhibition of morphine analgesia by LPS: role of opioid and NMDA receptors and spinal glia.

Integration of reward signalling and appetite regulating peptide systems in the control of food-cue responses.

Interactions in multiple schedules with different responses in each of the components.

Lithium-induced polydipsia in birds: a comparative study and analysis of electrolyte excretion

Loss of latent inhibition of contextual conditioning following non-reinforced context exposure in rats

Massed extinction trials produce better short-term but worse long-term loss of context conditioned fear responses than spaced trials.

Measuring emotion perception following traumatic brain injury: The Complex Audio Visual Emotion Assessment Task (CAVEAT).

Motivational state controls the prediction error in Pavlovian appetitive-aversive interactions.

Naloxone-induced hypoalgesia: effects of noradrenergic antagonists and agonist

Naloxone-induced hypoalgesia: evidence from the formalin test.

Negative patterning is easier than a biconditional discrimination.

Odor-aversion learning in neonate rat pups: the role of duration of exposure to an odor.

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

Opioid receptors regulate the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

Oxytocin receptor activation in the basolateral complex of the amygdala enhances discrimination between discrete cues and promotes configural processing of cues

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

Phantom perception: voluntary and involuntary nonretinal vision

Pilot study of the effects of a workplace smoking ban on indices of smoking, cigarette craving, stress and other health behaviours

Potentiation instead of overshadowing in the pigeon.

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

Protein synthesis in the basolateral amygdala complex is required for consolidation of a first-order fear memory, but not for consolidation of a higher-order fear memory.

Psychological and neural mechanisms of experimental extinction: a selective review

Psychological factors, immune function and recovery from major surgery.