Mikaela A. Laine

This study examines differences in conditioned fear responses between male rats, Darters, and Non-darters, finding no heightened reactivity in Darters to aversive stimuli.

The paper shows that CB1R blockade increases contextual fear generalization in female rats but not males, mediated by TRPV1R, and identifies sex differences in vHip-BLA circuitry.

This study shows chronic stress and neuronal activity remodel nodes of Ranvier in mice, linking structural changes to anxiety-like behavior.

The paper conducts a genome-wide association study of anxiety and stress-related disorders in the iPSYCH cohort, identifying PDE4B as consistently associated with ASRD and showing genetic overlap with other traits.