Ralf Schneggenburger

The paper identifies plastic encoding of an auditory conditioned stimulus in the posterior insula during fear learning, driven by LTP at the auditory cortex input.

This study identifies a pathway from the posterior insular cortex to the lateral amygdala that is critical for auditory-cued fear learning.

This study identifies differential plasticity in striatal pathways that balance fear responses with and without sensory cues in mice.

The paper compares the behavioral effects of two optogenetic channelrhodopsin variants, finding that ChETA suppresses aggression while ChR2 increases it in mice.

This study shows that dopamine release in the basal amygdala during footshocks signals salient events and supports threat memory formation.