Olexiy Kochubey

CS - plasticity and behavioral-state integration in the posterior insula during auditory fear learning

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.

An insular cortex to lateral amygdala pathway in fear learning

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

A striatal circuit balances learned fear in the presence and absence of sensory cues

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

Optogenetic stimulation of medial amygdala GABA neurons with kinetically different channelrhodopsin variants yield opposite behavioral outcomes

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

Dopamine in the basal amygdala signals salient somatosensory events during fear learning

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