Ann M. Chappell

The paper investigates the role of the BLA-vHC circuit in alcohol drinking behaviors using chemogenetics and finds that inhibiting this pathway reduces appetitive drinking but not consummatory behaviors.

This study shows chronic ethanol exposure and withdrawal increase glutamate release from dorsal mPFC terminals but decrease it from ventral mPFC terminals in the BLA, affecting anxiety-like behavior.

This study shows chronic ethanol exposure enhances glutamate release from thalamic inputs to the rat lateral amygdala, and manipulating these inputs reduces withdrawal-related anxiety.