Elizabeth Illescas-Huerta

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 compares social decision-making in two mouse strains, finding strain-dependent differences in neural network activity associated with prosocial and selfish behaviors.

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.