Franz R. Villaruel

The paper investigates neural correlates of extinction in a rat model of appetitive Pavlovian conditioning, identifying brain regions with differential activity during recall and extinction.

This study investigates the role of the IL-to-NAcS neural circuit in suppressing appetitive Pavlovian conditioned responding after extinction, finding that optogenetic stimulation suppresses renewal and responding independently of extinction.

This study investigates the role of ventral hippocampal sub-regions in approach-avoidance conflict processing using pharmacological inactivation in rats.