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Journal articles
2011, 'Drug-induced GABA transporter currents enhance GABA release to induce opioid withdrawal behaviors.', Nature Neuroscience, 14, pp. 1548 - 1554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2940
,2011, 'Extinction of drug and reward seeking', Behavioural Brain Research, 217, pp. 454 - 462
,2011, 'Kappa opioid receptors mediate where fear is expressed following extinction training', Learning and Memory, 18, pp. 88 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.2049511
,2011, 'Placing prediction into the fear circuit', Trends in Neurosciences, 34, pp. 283 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2011.03.005
,2011, 'The role of context in re-acquisition of extinguished alcoholic beer seeking', Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, pp. 541 - 550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024100
,2010, 'Scholarly productivity, impact, and quality among academic psychologists at group of eight universities', Australian Journal of Psychology, 62, pp. 204 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049531003667406
,2010, 'The role of nucleus accumbens shell in learning about neutral versus excitatory stimuli during Pavlovian fear conditioning', Learning and Memory, 17, pp. 337 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.1798810
,2010, 'Accumbens shell-hypothalamus interactions mediate extinction of alcohol seeking', Journal of Neuroscience, 30, pp. 4626 - 4635, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4933-09.2010
,2010, 'Cocaine and amphetamine related transcript (CART) inhibits context induced reinstatement of reward seeking', Behavioral Neuroscience, 124, pp. 423 - 427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019540
,2010, 'Effects of recent exposure to a conditioned stimulus on extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning', Learning and Memory, 17, pp. 512 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.1912510
,2010, 'Extinction of drug seeking', Behavioural Brain Research, 217, pp. 454 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.037
,2010, 'Medial dorsal hypothalamus mediates the inhibition of reward seeking after extinction', Journal of Neuroscience, 30, pp. 14102 - 14115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4079-10.2010
,2010, 'Scholarly productivity, impact, and quality among Psychology academics at Group of Eight Universities', Australian Journal of Psychology, pp. 214 - 215
,2010, 'The role of nucleus accumbens shell in learning about neutral versus excitatory stimuli during Pavlovian fear conditioning', Learning and Memory, 17, pp. 243 - 337
,2010, 'The role of prefrontal cortex in predictive fear learning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 124, pp. 574 - 586, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0020739
,2010, 'US habituation, like CS extinction, produces a decrement in conditioned fear responding that is NMDA dependent and subject to renewal and reinstatement.', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 93, pp. 463 - 471
,2009, 'Complementary roles for amygdala and periaqueductal gray in temporal-difference fear learning', Learning and Memory, 16, pp. 1 - 7
,2009, 'Conditioned Stimulus Familiarity Determines Effects of MK-801 on Fear Extinction', Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, pp. 303 - 314
,2009, 'Induction of Fos proteins in regions of the nucleus accumbens and ventrolateral striatum correlates with catalepsy and stereotypic behaviours induced by morphine', Neuropharmacology, 56, pp. 798 - 807
,2009, 'Lateral hypothalamus is required for context-induced reinstatement of extinguished reward seeking', Journal of Neuroscience, 29, pp. 1331 - 1342
,2009, 'Paraventricular thalamus mediates context-induced reinstatement (renewal) of extinguished reward seeking', European Journal of Neuroscience, 29, pp. 802 - 812
,2009, 'The Effects of FG7142 on Overexpectation of Pavlovian Fear Conditioning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, pp. 75 - 85
,2009, 'The roles of endogenous opioids in fear learning', International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 22, pp. 154 - 170
,2008, 'GABA(A) receptors determine the temporal dynamics of memory retention', Learning and Memory, 15, pp. 106 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.806008
,2008, 'Renewal of extinguished cocaine-seeking', Neuroscience, 151, pp. 659 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.11.018
,2008, 'Unblocking in Pavlovian fear conditioning', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 34, pp. 256 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.34.2.256
,2007, 'Induction of c-Fos and zif268 in the nociceptive amygdala parallel abstinence hyperalgesia in rats briefly exposed to morphine', Neuropharmacology, 53, pp. 330 - 343
,2007, 'Opioid receptors mediate direct predictive fear learning: Evidence from one-trial blocking', Learning and Memory, 14, pp. 229 - 235
,2007, 'Temporal-difference prediction errors and Pavlovian fear conditioning: Role of NMDA and opioid receptors', Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, pp. 1043 - 1052
,2007, 'The effects of FG7142 on two types of forgetting in 18-day-old rats', Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, pp. 1421 - 1425
,2007, 'The neural correlates and role of D1 dopamine receptors in renewal of extinguished alcohol-seeking', Neuroscience, 146, pp. 525 - 536
,2006, 'A short intertrial interval facilitates acquisition of context-conditioned fear and a short retention interval facilitates its expression', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 32, pp. 164 - 172
,2006, 'A telemetric examination of cardiovascular function during the development of, and recovery from, opiate dependence in rats', Physiology and Behavior, 88, pp. 55 - 60
,2006, 'Altered responsivity to central administrations of corticotropin-releasing factor in rats with a history of opiate exposures', Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, pp. 1169 - 1174
,2006, 'Opioid receptors in the midbrain periaqueductal gray regulate prediction errors during Pavlovian fear conditioning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, pp. 313 - 323
,2006, 'Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens regulate attentional learning in the blocking paradigm', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 4036 - 4045
,2006, 'Opioid receptors regulate retrieval of infant fear memories: Effects of naloxone on infantile amnesia', Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, pp. 702 - 709
,2006, 'Predicting danger: The nature, consequences, and neural mechanisms of predictive fear learning', Learning and Memory, 13, pp. 245 - 253
,2006, 'Predicting danger: The nature, consequences, and neural mechanisms of predictive fear learning', Learning and Memory, 13, pp. 245 - 253
,2006, 'Recovery of fear memories in rats: Role of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) in infantile amnesia', Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, pp. 40 - 48
,2006, 'Renewal of an extinguished instrumental response: Neural correlates and the role of D1 dopamine receptors', Neuroscience, 143, pp. 25 - 38
,2006, 'The effect of the inter trial interval on Pavlovian conditioned fear', Australian Journal of Psychology, 58, pp. 85 - 86
,2005, 'Altered Vulnerability to Acute Opiate Withdrawal Following Stress: Roles of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate and Glucocorticoid Receptors', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1215 - 1221, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WY4-4HMFBS8-5/2/56cc84e146b7b357f340ee598283f2e2
,2005, 'Facilitation of fear extinction by midbrain periaqueductal gray infusions of RB 101(S), an inhibitor of enkephalin-degrading enzymes', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1672 - 1677
,2005, 'Increased Vulnerability to Stress Following Opiate Exposures: Behavioral and Autonomic Correlates', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1034 - 1041, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WY4-4H5MWPR-K/2/0578465b6f3871c8a7419611011ed1c9
,2005, 'The Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray and Fear Extinction: Opioid Receptor Subtype and Roles of Cyclic AMP, Protein Kinase A, and Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase', Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, pp. 1023 - 1033, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WY4-4H5MWPR-J/2/53b6722378e1409c2c8522455733b6f1
,2004, 'Blocking, unblocking, and overexpectation of fear: Opioid receptors regulate Pavlovian association formation', Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, pp. 111 - 120
,2004, 'Opioid receptors in the midbrain periaqueductal gray matter regulate the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 24, pp. 6912 - 6919
,2003, 'Anterograde Amnesia for Pavlovian Fear Conditioning and the Role of One-Trial Overshadowing: Effects of Preconditioning Exposures to Morphine in the Rat', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29, pp. 222 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.29.3.222
,2003, 'Temporally Graded, Context-Specific Retrograde Amnesia and its Alleviation by Context Preexposure: Effects of Postconditioning Exposures to Morphine in the Rat', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 29, pp. 130 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.29.2.130
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