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Amanda Russo
I am currently a PhD student in the Integrative Neuroscience program at Stony Brook
University where I work under the advisement of Dr. Ryan Parsons. In the Parsons
lab, we study the neurobiological mechanisms underlying long-term memory formation
using Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigms in rats. Because it is known that poor
ability to extinguish a conditioned fear response underlies fear-based psychopathologies
such as posttraumatic stress disorder, I use a Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm
to delineate the neural mechanisms involved in the learning and recall of fear extinction.
I am specifically interested in understanding how activation of the circuits involved
in extinction differs among rats with different extinction phenotypes. I am currently
using retrograde tracers and chemogenetic tools to attempt to understand what makes
some individuals worse at extinguishing fear than others. Identification of such
differences can help to provide targets for the treatment of fear-based disorders.
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