Alba López-Moraga

This study examines how chronic restraint stress affects two active avoidance tasks in rats, finding impaired acquisition in two-way active avoidance but no effect on platform-mediated avoidance or extinction.

The paper identifies distinct roles of three DRN dopamine neuron projections in social behavior and affective states through optogenetic and electrophysiological experiments.

This study modifies a platform-mediated avoidance task to assess fear learning in male and female rats, revealing sex differences in avoidance, generalization, and extinction, and introduces an automated behavioral scoring system.

This study investigates the effect of dopamine receptor blockade on avoidance learning in rats, finding that D1R antagonism acutely impairs avoidance but not long-term learning.

This study shows that high threat intensity increases fear generalization and reduces the effectiveness of extinction training using a generalization stimulus.