Reviews

1. 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 & Biobehavioral Reviews, 174, 106198. DOI ↗
2. Liu, J., Totty, M. S., Bayer, H., & Maren, S. (2025). Integrating aversive memories in the basolateral amygdala. Biological Psychiatry, advance online publication. DOI ↗
3. Vasudevan, K., Hassell, J. E., Jr, & Maren, S. (2024). Hippocampal engrams and contextual memory. Advances in Neurobiology, 38, 45–66. DOI ↗
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. DOI ↗
5. Totty, M. S., & Maren, S. (2022). Neural oscillations in aversively motivated behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 936036. DOI ↗
6. Maren, S. (2022). Unrelenting fear under stress: Neural circuits and mechanisms for the immediate extinction deficit. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16, 888461. DOI ↗

Research Articles

1. 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, advance online publication. DOI ↗
2. 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, 49(13), 1951–1957. DOI ↗
3. 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. DOI ↗
4. 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, 43(22), 4162–4173. DOI ↗
5. 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. DOI ↗
6. 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. DOI ↗
7. 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. DOI ↗
8. 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, 40(4), 907–916. DOI ↗
9. 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. DOI ↗
10. Ramanathan, K. R., & Maren, S. (2019). Nucleus reuniens mediates the extinction of contextual fear conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 374, 112114. DOI ↗