By Professor Gavan Patrick McNally

Journal articles

Yau JOY; McNally GP, 2018, 'Brain mechanisms controlling pavlovian fear conditioning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44, pp. 341 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000181

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

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2018, 'Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of punishment: Implications for psychiatric disorders', Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, pp. 1639 - 1650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-018-0047-3

Gibson GD; Prasad AA; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Millan EZ; Liu Y; Campbell EJ; Lim J; Marchant NJ; Power JM; Killcross S; Lawrence AJ; McNally GP, 2018, 'Distinct Accumbens Shell Output Pathways Promote versus Prevent Relapse to Alcohol Seeking', Neuron, 98, pp. 512 - 520.e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.03.033

Khoo SY; Lay BPP; Joya J; McNally GP, 2018, 'Local anaesthetic refinement of pentobarbital euthanasia reduces abdominal writhing without affecting immunohistochemical endpoints in rats', Laboratory Animals, 52, pp. 152 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023677217721260

Sengupta A; Yau JOY; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Liu Y; Millan EZ; Power JM; McNally GP, 2018, 'Basolateral amygdala neurons maintain aversive emotional salience', Journal of Neuroscience, 38, pp. 3001 - 3012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2460-17.2017

Assareh N; Bagley EE; Carrive P; McNally GP, 2017, 'Brief optogenetic inhibition of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray augments the acquisition of pavlovian fear conditioning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 131, pp. 454 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000217

Arico C; Bagley EE; Carrive P; Assareh N; McNally GP, 2017, 'Effects of chemogenetic excitation or inhibition of the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray on the acquisition and extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, pp. 186 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.07.006

Choi EA; McNally GP, 2017, 'Paraventricular thalamus balances danger and reward', Journal of Neuroscience, 37, pp. 3018 - 3029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3320-16.2017

Choi EA; McNally GP, 2017, 'Paraventricular thalamus influences approach and avoidance', Journal of Neuroscience, 37, pp. 1

Khoo SY; McNally GP; Clemens KJ, 2017, 'The dual orexin receptor antagonist TCS1102 does not affect reinstatement of nicotine-seeking', PLoS One, 12, pp. e0173967 - e0173967, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173967

Khoo SYS; Gibson GD; Prasad AA; McNally GP, 2017, 'How contexts promote and prevent relapse to drug seeking', Genes, Brain and Behavior, 16, pp. 185 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12328

Sengupta A; Yau JOY; Bressel PJ-RD; Liu Y; Zayra Millan E; Power J; McNally G, 2017, 'Basolateral amygdala glutamatergic neurons maintain aversive emotional salience', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/186072

Prasad AA; McNally GP, 2016, 'Ventral pallidum output pathways in context-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking', Journal of Neuroscience, 36, pp. 11716 - 11726, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2580-16.2016

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2016, 'Lateral, not medial, prefrontal cortex contributes to punishment and aversive instrumental learning', Learning and Memory, 23, pp. 607 - 617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.042820.116

Assareh N; Sarrami M; Carrive P; McNally GP, 2016, 'The organization of defensive behavior elicited by optogenetic excitation of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray', Behavioral Neuroscience, 130, pp. 406 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000151

Furlong TM; Richardson R; McNally GP, 2016, 'Habituation and extinction of fear recruit overlapping forebrain structures', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 128, pp. 7 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2015.11.013

Sengupta A; Winters B; Bagley EE; McNally GP, 2016, 'Disrupted prediction error links excessive amygdala activation to excessive fear', Journal of Neuroscience, 36, pp. 385 - 395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3670-15.2016

Li SSY; McNally GP, 2015, 'A role of nucleus accumbens dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens core, but not shell, in fear prediction error', Behavioral Neuroscience, 129, pp. 450 - 456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000071

Li SSY; McNally GP, 2015, 'Selecting danger signals: Dissociable roles of nucleus accumbens shell and core glutamate in predictive fear learning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 41, pp. 1515 - 1523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12892

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2015, 'The role of the basolateral amygdala in punishment', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 128 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.035907.114

Yau JOY; McNally GP, 2015, 'Pharmacogenetic excitation of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex restores fear prediction error', Journal of Neuroscience, 35, pp. 74 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3777-14.2015

Khoo AT; Gibson GD; Prasad AA; McNally GP, 2015, 'Role of the striatopallidal pathway in renewal and reacquisition of alcohol seeking', Behavioral Neuroscience, 129, pp. 2 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000036

Bressel PJRD; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2014, 'The role of the lateral habenula in punishment', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e111699, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111699

Prasad AA; McNally GP, 2014, 'Effects of vivo morpholino knockdown of lateral hypothalamus orexin/hypocretin on renewal of alcohol seeking', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110385

Sengupta A; McNally GP, 2014, 'A role for midline and intralaminar thalamus in the associative blocking of Pavlovian fear conditioning', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, pp. 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00148

Arico C; McNally GP, 2014, 'Opioid receptors regulate blocking and overexpectation of fear learning in conditioned suppression', Behavioral Neuroscience, 128, pp. 199 - 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036133

Willcocks AL; McNally GP, 2014, 'An extinction retrieval cue attenuates renewal but not reacquisition of alcohol seeking', Behavioral Neuroscience, 128, pp. 83 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0035595

Li SSY; McNally GP, 2014, 'The conditions that promote fear learning: Prediction error and Pavlovian fear conditioning', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 108, pp. 14 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.05.002

Mcnally GP, 2014, 'Extinction of drug seeking: Neural circuits and approaches to augmentation', Neuropharmacology, 76, pp. 528 - 532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.06.007

Perry CJ; Mcnally GP, 2013, 'A role for the ventral pallidum in context-induced and primed reinstatement of alcohol seeking', European Journal of Neuroscience, 38, pp. 2762 - 2773, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12283

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

Perry CJ; McNally GP, 2013, 'μ-Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell mediate context-induced reinstatement (renewal) but not primed reinstatement of extinguished alcohol seeking', Behavioral Neuroscience, 127, pp. 535 - 543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0032981

Iordanova MD; Haralambous T; McNally GP; Westbrook RF; Haralambous T, 2013, 'Accumbal opioid receptors modulate cue competition in one-trial overshadowing', Brain Research, 1517, pp. 57 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2013.04.019

McNally GP; Perry CJ, 2013, 'Cue competition in the nucleus accumbens: Role of opioid receptors in one-trial overshadowing', Brain Research, pp. 57 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2013.04.019

Millan EZ; Milligan-Saville J; McNally GP, 2013, 'Memory retrieval, extinction, and reinstatement of alcohol seeking', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 101, pp. 26 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2012.12.010

Nasser HM; McNally GP, 2013, 'Neural correlates of appetitive-aversive interactions in Pavlovian fear conditioning', Learning and Memory, 20, pp. 220 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.029744.112

Hutton-Bedbrook K; McNally GP, 2013, 'The Promises and Pitfalls of Retrieval-Extinction Procedures in Preventing Relapse to Drug Seeking', Frontiers in Psychiatry, 4, pp. 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00014

McNally GP; Willcocks A, 2013, 'The role of medial prefrontal cortex in extinction and reinstatement of alcohol-seeking in rats', European Journal of Neuroscience, 37, pp. 259 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12031

Cole S; Richardson RD; McNally GP, 2013, 'Ventral Hippocampal Kappa Opioid Receptors Mediate the Renewal of Fear following Extinction in the Rat', PLoS One, 8, pp. Article numbere58701, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058701

Nasser H; Mcnally GP, 2012, 'Appetitive-aversive interactions in Pavlovian fear conditioning.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 126, pp. 404 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028341

Millan ZE; McNally GP, 2012, 'Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript in the nucleus accumbens shell attenuates context-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 126, pp. 690 - 698, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029953

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

Perry CJ; Mcnally GP, 2012, 'Naloxone prevents the rapid reacquisition but not acquisition of alcohol seeking', Behavioral neuroscience, 126, pp. 599 - 604

Kim JH; Li S; Hamlin AS; Mcnally GP; Richardson RD, 2012, 'Phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in the medial prefrontal cortex and the amygdala following memory retrieval or forgetting in developing rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 97, pp. 59 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2011.09.005

Storsve AB; McNally GP; Richardson RD, 2012, 'Renewal and reinstatement of the conditioned but not the unconditioned response following habituation of the unconditioned stimulus', Behavioural Processes, 90, pp. 58 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.007

Marchant NJ; Millan ZE; Mcnally GP, 2012, 'The hypothalamus and the neurobiology of drug seeking', CMLS - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 69, pp. 581 - 597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00018-011-0817-0

Marchant NJ; Hamlin AS; McNally GP, 2011, 'Lateral hypothalamus is required for context-induced reinstatement of extinguished reward seeking (The Journal of Neuroscience (2009) (1331-1342))', Journal of Neuroscience, 31

Marchant NJ; Furlong TM; McNally GP, 2011, 'Medial dorsal hypothalamus mediates the inhibition of reward seeking after extinction', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4079-10.2010

Millan EZ; Mcnally GP, 2011, 'Accumbens shell AMPA receptors mediate expression of extinguished reward seeking through interactions with basolateral amygdala', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 18, pp. 414 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.2144411

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