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. Bayer, H., Binette, A. B., Sweck, S. O., Juliano, V. A. L., Plas, S. L., Ferst, L. M., Hassell, J. E., Jr., Mourão, F. A. G., and Maren, S. (2026). Locus coeruleus-amygdala circuit disrupts prefrontal control to impair fear extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(11):e2528250123. DOI ↗
2. Mourão, F. A. G., Totty, M. S., Tuna, T., and Maren, S. (2026). Hippocampal-prelimbic coupling during context-dependent extinction retrieval in rats. Hippocampus, 36(1):e70058. DOI ↗
3. Tuna, T., Mourão, F. A. G., and Maren, S. (2026). Theta-paced stimulation of the thalamic nucleus reuniens entrains mPFC-HPC oscillations and facilitates the acquisition of extinction memories. Brain Stimulation, 19(1):102984. DOI ↗
4. Tuna, T., Totty, M. S., Badarnee, M., Mourão, F. A. G., Peters, S., Milad, M. R., and Maren, S. (2025). Associative coding of conditioned fear in the thalamic nucleus reuniens in rodents and humans. Communications Biology, 8(1):1142. DOI ↗
5. Hassell, J. E., Jr., Arellano Perez, A. D., Vasudevan, K., Ressler, R. L., Garcia, G. M., Parr, M., Vierkant, V. M., Bayer, H., and Maren, S. (2025). Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear. Molecular Psychiatry, 30:4800-09. DOI ↗
6. Bayer, H., Hassell, J. E., Jr., Oleksiak, C. R., Garcia, G. M., Vaughan, H. L., Juliano, V. A. L., and Maren, S. (2024). Pharmacological stimulation of infralimbic cortex after fear conditioning facilitates subsequent fear extinction. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49:1951-7. DOI ↗
7. Plas, S. L., Oleksiak, C. R., Pierre, C., Melton, C., Moscarello, J. M., and Maren, S. (2024). Acute stress yields a sex-dependent facilitation of signaled active avoidance in rats. Neurobiology of Stress, 31:100656. DOI ↗
8. Totty, M. S., Tuna, T., Ramanathan, K. R., Jin, J., Peters, S. E., and Maren, S. (2023). Thalamic nucleus reuniens coordinates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony to suppress extinguished fear. Nature Communications, 14(1):6565. DOI ↗
9. Binette, A. N., Liu, J., Bayer, H., Crayton, K. L., Melissari, L., Sweck, S. O., and Maren, S. (2023). Parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex regulate stress-induced fear extinction impairments in male and female rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(22):4162-73. DOI ↗
10. Liu, J., Totty, M. S., Melissari, L., and Maren, S. (2022). Convergent coding of recent and remote fear memories in the basolateral amygdala. Biological Psychiatry, 91(9):832-840. DOI ↗