Francisco Sotres-Bayón

The paper identifies a corticostriatal circuit in rats that enables adaptive restraint during motivational conflict by integrating learned threat and reward signals.

This study identifies a selective cortico-limbic network involved in resolving motivational conflict during reward seeking under threat by inactivating brain regions in rats.

This study investigates the roles of the ventral pallidum and basolateral amygdala in decision-making during conflict between reward-seeking and defensive behaviors.

This paper develops three conflict-mediated tasks to study how rats balance threats and rewards, finding that low-dose diazepam facilitates reward-seeking despite threats.

This study shows that lateral habenula (LHb) is necessary for defensive responses only when threat and safety memories conflict, as demonstrated in rats through pharmacological inactivation and behavioral tasks.