Ana Paula Crestani

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 examines sex differences in memory generalization in adult rats across multiple contexts and timepoints, finding females better discriminators with lower fear responses than males.

The paper shows that inhibitory PV interneurons in the rat medial prefrontal cortex encode spatial context during reward foraging.

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 adolescent female rats undergo systems consolidation of an aversive memory, while adolescent males fail to discriminate contexts, with ovariectomy accelerating generalization in females.