Robert M. Sears

This study investigates how response-produced safety signals influence goal-directed and habitual avoidance behaviors in rats, showing sex differences in their sensitivity to feedback devaluation.

This study investigates the role of norepinephrine projections from the locus coeruleus to the central amygdala in defensive responses to learned threats, showing bidirectional modulation of freezing behavior.

The paper shows that learning regulates protein synthesis in adult rat amygdala axons, identified through TRAP-RNASeq, revealing upregulated mitochondrial and translation-related genes and downregulated synaptic genes.