Publications
The prolonged impact of psychosocial stress on fear regulation.
Sydney Trask, Michael T Kuczajda, & Nicole C Ferrara
Brief isolation impacts distinct amygdala projection neurons in adults and adolescents.
Nicole C Ferrara, Sydney Trask, Alexandra Ritger, Mallika Padival, & J Amiel Rosenkranz
Isolation driven changes in microglia morphology underlie social recognition memory in adults and adolescents.
Nicole C Ferrara, Sydney Trask, Lily Yan, Mallika Padival, Fred J Helmstetter, & J Amiel Rosenkranz
Medial orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens mediation in risk assessment behaviors in adolescents and adults.
Maxine K Loh, Nicole C Ferrara, Jasmine Torres, & J Amiel Rosenkranz
Developmental shifts in amygdala activity during a high social drive state.
Nicole C Ferrara, Sydney Trask, Brittany Avonts, Maxine K Loh, Mallika Padival, & J Amiel Rosenkranz
Regulation of learned fear expression through the MgN-amygdala pathway.
Nicole C Ferrara, Sydney Trask, Shane E Pullins, & Fred J Helmstetter
Optogenetic inhibition of either the anterior or the posterior retrosplenial cortex disrupts retrieval of a trace, but not delay, fear memory.
Sydney Trask, Nicole C Ferrara, Kevin Grisales, & Fred J Helmstetter
The anterior retrosplenial cortex encodes event-related information and the posterior retrosplenial cortex encodes context-related information during memory formation.
Sydney Trask, Nicole C Ferrara, Shane E. Pullins, & Fred J Helmstetter
Fear learning enhances prefrontal cortical suppression of auditory thalamic inputs to the amygdala in adults but not adolescents.
Nicole C Ferrara, Eliska Mrackova, Maxine K Loh, Mallika Padival, & J Amiel Rosenkranz
Decreased cued fear discrimination learning in female rats as a function of estrous phase.
Sydney Trask, David S Reis, Nicole C Ferrara, & Fred J Helmstetter
Repeated stress induces a pro-inflammatory state, increases amygdala neuronal and microglial activation, and causes anxiety in adult male rats.
Soumyabrata Munshi, Maxine K Loh, Nicole C Ferrara, Mary R DeJoseph, Alexandra Ritger, Mallika Padival, Matthew J Record, Janice H Urban, & J Amiel Rosenkranz
GluR2 endocytosis-dependent protein degradation in the amygdala mediates memory updating.
Nicole C Ferrara, Tim J Jarome, Patrick K Cullen, Sabrina A Orsi, Janine L Kwapis, Sydney Trask, Shane E Pullins, & Fred J Helmstetter
The dorsal hippocampus mediates synaptic destabilization and memory lability in the amygdala in the absence of contextual novelty.
Nicole C Ferrara, Sydney Trask, Shane E Pullins, & Fred J Helmstetter
Updating procedures can reorganize the neural circuit supporting a fear memory.
Janine L Kwapis, Tim J Jarome, Nicole C Ferrara, & Fred J Helmstetter
Context memory formation requires activity-dependent protein degradation in the hippocampus.
Patrick K Cullen, Nicole C Ferrara, Shane E Pullins, & Fred J Helmstetter
Input from the medial geniculate nucleus modulates amygdala encoding of fear memory discrimination.
Nicole C Ferrara, Patrick K Cullen, Shane E Pullins, Elena K Rotondo, & Fred J Helmstetter
CaMKII regulates proteasome phosphorylation and activity and memory destabilization following retrieval.
Tim J Jarome, Nicole C Ferrara, Janine L Kwapis, & Fred J Helmstetter
Contextual information drives the reconsolidation-dependent updating of retrieved fear memories.
Tim J Jarome, Nicole C Ferrara, Janine L Kwapis, & Fred J Helmstetter
Escape and avoidance learning in the earthworm Eisenia hortensis.
W Jeffrey Wilson, Nicole C Ferrara, Amanda L Blaker, Charisa E Giddings
Basolateral amygdala immunofluorescent image following social interaction.