Cecily R. Oleksiak

This study shows that pharmacological activation of the infralimbic cortex after fear conditioning enhances fear extinction in rats.

This study shows acute stress enhances signaled active avoidance in female rats but not males, with males showing resistance to extinction and similar fear learning to females.

This study investigates the role of the ventral hippocampus in inter-trial responses during signaled active avoidance in rats, finding that its inactivation reduces these responses while leaving avoidance behavior unaffected.

This study shows that ventral hippocampus inactivation removes context-dependence in two-way signaled avoidance behavior in male rats, while dorsal hippocampus inactivation has no effect.

This study investigates context-dependent flight behavior in rats, showing that contextual fear influences flight responses and that amygdala inactivation reduces both contextual and flight behaviors.