Brian Joseph Wiltgen

This study shows that dopamine from the locus coeruleus, not the ventral tegmental area, is crucial for trace fear conditioning in the hippocampus by enabling memory trace reactivation.

This study shows that phasic locus coeruleus activity enhances trace fear conditioning by increasing hippocampal dopamine release, which is critical for memory formation.

This study shows that high-frequency stimulation of ventral CA1 neurons inhibits fear expression by reducing amygdala activity, similar to findings in dorsal CA1.

The paper investigates whether dorsal hippocampus inactivation impairs retrieval of new context fear memories, finding that ChR2 stimulation impairs retrieval while DREADD activation does not.