By Dr Kathryn Baker

Journal articles

Chan D; Baker KD; Richardson R, 2024, 'The impact of chronic fluoxetine treatment in adolescence or adulthood on context fear memory and perineuronal nets', Developmental Psychobiology, 66, pp. e22501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.22501

Wall EK; Teo JN; Roth A; Chan ME; Brandt J; Hibri M; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2024, 'Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 173, pp. 104457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104457

Virakorn EA; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2024, 'Chronic Stressor Exposure Impairs Extinction of Fear in Adolescent Rats and Has Associated Effects on Perineuronal Nets and Parvalbumin Interneurons', Behavioral Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000592

Zimmermann KS; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2023, 'Developmental changes in functional connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and amygdala following fear extinction', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 205, pp. 107847, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107847

Di Polito N; Stylianakis AA; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2023, 'Real-World Intake of Dietary Sugars Is Associated with Reduced Cortisol Reactivity Following an Acute Physiological Stressor', Nutrients, 15, pp. 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15010209

Stylianakis AA; Baker KD; Richardson R, 2022, 'Pharmacological Enhancement of Extinction Retention in Non-stressed Adolescent Rats but Not Those Exposed to Chronic Corticosterone', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, pp. 822709, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.822709

Bisby MA; Stylianakis AA; Baker KD; Richardson R, 2021, 'Fear extinction learning and retention during adolescence in rats and mice: A systematic review', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, pp. 1264 - 1274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.044

Richardson R; Bowers J; Callaghan BL; Baker KD, 2021, 'Does maternal separation accelerate maturation of perineuronal nets and parvalbumin-containing inhibitory interneurons in male and female rats?', Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 47, pp. 100905, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100905

Bisby MA; Baker KD; Richardson R, 2020, 'Deficits in opioid receptor-mediated prediction error contribute to impaired fear extinction during adolescence', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 133, pp. 103713, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103713

Zimmermann KS; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2020, 'Esketamine as a treatment for paediatric depression: questions of safety and efficacy', The Lancet Psychiatry, 7, pp. 827 - 829, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30521-8

Bisby MA; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2020, 'Developmental differences in the effects of CB1/2R agonist WIN55212-2 on extinction of learned fear', Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 99, pp. 109834, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2019.109834

Stylianakis AA; Richardson R; Baker K, 2019, 'Timing is everything: Developmental differences in the effect of chronic corticosterone exposure on extinction retention', Behavioral Neuroscience, 133, pp. 467 - 477, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000326

Zimmermann KS; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2019, 'Maturational changes in prefrontal and amygdala circuits in adolescence: implications for understanding fear inhibition during a vulnerable period of development', Brain Sciences, 9, pp. 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9030065

King G; Baker KD; Bisby MA; Chan D; Cowan CSM; Stylianakis AA; Zimmermann KS; Richardson R, 2019, 'A precision medicine approach to pharmacological adjuncts to extinction: a call to broaden research', Psychopharmacology, 236, pp. 143 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4999-0

Stylianakis AA; Harmon-Jones SK; Richardson R; Baker KD, 2018, 'Differences in the persistence of spatial memory deficits induced by a chronic stressor in adolescents compared to juveniles', Developmental Psychobiology, 60, pp. 805 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.21750

Baker KD; McNally GP; Richardson R, 2018, 'D-Cycloserine facilitates fear extinction in adolescent rats and differentially affects medial and lateral prefrontal cortex activation', Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 86, pp. 262 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.06.007

Bisby MA; Baker KD; Richardson R, 2018, 'Elucidating the mechanisms of fear extinction in developing animals: A special case of NMDA receptor-independent extinction in adolescent rats', Learning and Memory, 25, pp. 158 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.047209.117

Baker KD; Loughman A; Spencer SJ; Reichelt AC, 2017, 'The impact of obesity and hypercaloric diet consumption on anxiety and emotional behavior across the lifespan', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, pp. 173 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.10.014

Baker KD; Richardson R, 2017, 'Pharmacological evidence that a failure to recruit NMDA receptors contributes to impaired fear extinction retention in adolescent rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 143, pp. 18 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2016.10.014

Baker KD; Gray AR; Richardson R, 2017, 'The development of perineuronal nets around parvalbumin GABAergic neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala of rats', Behavioral Neuroscience, 131, pp. 289 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000203

Baker KD; Reichelt AC, 2016, 'Impaired fear extinction retention and increased anxiety-like behaviours induced by limited daily access to a high-fat/high-sugar diet in male rats: Implications for diet-induced prefrontal cortex dysregulation', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 136, pp. 127 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2016.10.002

Baker KD; Bisby MA; Richardson R, 2016, 'Impaired fear extinction in adolescent rodents: Behavioural and neural analyses', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 70, pp. 59 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.05.019

Chan D; Baker KD; Richardson R, 2015, 'Relearning a context-shock association after forgetting is an NMDAr-independent process', Physiology and Behavior, 148, pp. 29 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.11.004

Baker KD; Richardson R, 2015, 'Forming competing fear learning and extinction memories in adolescence makes fear difficult to inhibit', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 537 - 543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.039487

Ogeil RP; Baker KD, 2015, 'The Interaction of REM Sleep with Safety Learning in Humans: Could a Good Night's Sleep Alter a Traumatic Experience?', The Journal of Neuroscience, 35, pp. 1337 - 1339, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4370-14.2015

Baker KD; Den ML; Graham BM; Richardson R, 2014, 'A window of vulnerability: Impaired fear extinction in adolescence', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 113, pp. 90 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.10.009

Baker KD; McNally GP; Richardson R, 2013, 'Memory retrieval before or after extinction reduces recovery of fear in adolescent rats', Learning and Memory, 20, pp. 467 - 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.031989.113

Baker KD; Edwards TM; Rickard NS, 2013, 'The role of intracellular calcium stores in synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37, pp. 1211 - 1239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.04.011

Baker KB; McNally GP; Richardson RL, 2012, 'D-cycloserine does not facilitate fear extinction by reducing conditioned stimulus processing or promoting conditioned inhibition to contextual cues', Learning and Memory, 19, pp. 461 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.026674.112

Baker KD; Edwards TM; Rickard NS, 2011, 'Pharmacobehavioural Evidence for Nitric Oxide and Noradrenaline Interactions With Ryanodine Receptors During Memory Formation in the Young Chick', Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, pp. 175 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0022537

Baker KD; Edwards TM; Rickard NS, 2011, 'Blocking SK channels impairs long-term memory formation in young chicks', Behavioural Brain Research, 216, pp. 458 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.032

Baker KD; Edwards TM; Rickard NS, 2010, 'A ryanodine receptor agonist promotes the consolidation of long-term memory in young chicks', Behavioural Brain Research, 206, pp. 143 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.026

Baker KD; Edwards TM; Rickard NS, 2008, 'Inhibition of mGluR1 and IP(3)Rs impairs long-term memory formation in young chicks', NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY, 90, pp. 269 - 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2008.04.004

Baker KD; Edwards TM; Rickard NS, 2008, 'Inhibition of mGluR1 and IP3Rs impairs long-term memory formation in young chicks', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 90, pp. 269 - 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2008.04.004

Baker KD; Edwards TM, 2007, 'd-Lactate inhibition of memory in a single trial discrimination avoidance task in the young chick', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 88, pp. 269 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2007.06.004

Conference Papers

Baker K; McNally G; Richardson R, 2018, 'D-Cycloserine Facilitates Fear Extinction in Adolescent Rats and Differentially Affects Medial and Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, pp. S133 - S134, presented at 73rd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 10 May 2018 - 12 May 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.349

Stylianakis A; Baker K; Richardson R, 2017, '832. Timing is Everything: Developmental Differences in the Effect of Chronic Stress on Extinction in Adolescent Rats', in Biological Psychiatry, Elsevier BV, pp. S337 - S337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.899

Conference Presentations

Baker KD; Richardson R, 2015, 'Impaired Fear Extinction Retention in Adolescence: Age at Fear Learning or Age at Extinction?', presented at 70th Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry on Stress, Emotion, Neurodevelopment and Psychopathology, CANADA, Toronto, 14 May 2015 - 16 May 2015, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000352207500054&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Abstracts

Williams-Spooner M; Richardson R; Baker K, 2017, 'A High-Fat High-Sugar Diet-Induced Impairment of Fear Inhibition and Place-Recognition Memory in Adolescent Rats', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Diego, Vol. 81, pp. S338 - S339, presented at 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), CA, San Diego, 18 May 2017 - 20 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.560

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