Joanna Oi-Yue Yau

This study shows that enkephalin released in the amygdala during fear learning suppresses dopamine release, thereby constraining fear memory formation.

This study shows that instrumental reward learning increases intrinsic excitability of BLA projection neurons, while punishment training maintains excitability and response-independent shocks reverse it.

This study identifies state- and circuit-dependent opponent processing of fear in rats, showing that BLA pathways to CeA and Acb have opposing roles in fear learning.

The paper shows BLA PV interneurons report aversive prediction error and limit fear learning, while projection neurons form fear associations.

The paper identifies mesolimbic dopamine signatures associated with different forms of alcohol-seeking relapse using photometry and dissimilarity matrices.

The paper shows that inhibiting BLA glutamatergic neurons during reinforcement or non-reinforcement reduces conditioned stimulus salience, affecting fear learning and behavior.