Bayer, H., Bertoglio, L. J., Maren, S., & Stern, C. A. J. (2025). Windows of change: Revisiting temporal and molecular dynamics of memory reconsolidation and persistence. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 174, 106198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106198
Liu, J., Totty, M. S., Bayer, H., & Maren, S. (2025). Integrating Aversive Memories in the Basolateral Amygdala. Biological psychiatry, S0006-3223(25)01107-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.03.019
Vasudevan, K., Hassell, J. E., Jr, & Maren, S. (2024). Hippocampal Engrams and Contextual Memory. Advances in neurobiology, 38, 45–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62983-9_4
Plas, S. L., Tuna, T., Bayer, H., Juliano, V. A. L., Sweck, S. O., Arellano Perez, A. D., Hassell, J. E., & Maren, S. (2024). Neural circuits for the adaptive regulation of fear and extinction memory. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 18, 1352797. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1352797
Totty, M. S., & Maren, S. (2022). Neural Oscillations in Aversively Motivated Behavior. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 16, 936036. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.936036
Maren S. (2022). Unrelenting Fear Under Stress: Neural Circuits and Mechanisms for the Immediate Extinction Deficit. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 16, 888461. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.888461
Research Articles
Hassell, J. E., Jr, Arellano Perez, A. D., Vasudevan, K., Ressler, R. L., Garcia, G. M., Parr, M., Vierkant, V. M., Bayer, H., & Maren, S. (2025). Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear. Molecular psychiatry, 10.1038/s41380-025-03064-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03064-3
Bayer, H., Hassell, J. E., Jr, Oleksiak, C. R., Garcia, G. M., Vaughan, H. L., Juliano, V. A. L., & Maren, S. (2024). Pharmacological stimulation of infralimbic cortex after fear conditioning facilitates subsequent fear extinction. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 49(13), 1951–1957. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01961-9
Totty, M. S., Tuna, T., Ramanathan, K. R., Jin, J., Peters, S. E., & Maren, S. (2023). Thalamic nucleus reuniens coordinates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony to suppress extinguished fear. Nature communications, 14(1), 6565. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42315-1
Binette, A. N., Liu, J., Bayer, H., Crayton, K. L., Melissari, L., Sweck, S. O., & Maren, S. (2023). Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Regulate Stress-Induced Fear Extinction Impairments in Male and Female Rats. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 43(22), 4162–4173. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1442-22.2023
Liu, J., Totty, M. S., Melissari, L., Bayer, H., & Maren, S. (2022). Convergent Coding of Recent and Remote Fear Memory in the Basolateral Amygdala. Biological psychiatry, 91(9), 832–840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.12.018
Ressler, R. L., Goode, T. D., Kim, S., Ramanathan, K. R., & Maren, S. (2021). Covert capture and attenuation of a hippocampus-dependent fear memory. Nature neuroscience, 24(5), 677–684. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00825-5
Ressler, R. L., Goode, T. D., Evemy, C., & Maren, S. (2020). NMDA receptors in the CeA and BNST differentially regulate fear conditioning to predictable and unpredictable threats. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 174, 107281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107281
Giustino, T. F., Ramanathan, K. R., Totty, M. S., Miles, O. W., & Maren, S. (2020). Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine Drives Stress-Induced Increases in Basolateral Amygdala Firing and Impairs Extinction Learning. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 40(4), 907–916. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1092-19.2019.
Goode, T. D., Acca, G. M., & Maren, S. (2020). Threat imminence dictates the role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in contextual fear. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 167, 107116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107116
Ramanathan, K. R., & Maren, S. (2019). Nucleus reuniens mediates the extinction of contextual fear conditioning. Behavioural brain research, 374, 112114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112114
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