Gavan P. McNally
University of New South Wales
159 Papers
986 Citations
Gavan P. McNally is an academic researcher from University of New South Wales. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fear conditioning & Classical conditioning. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 143 publications. Previous affiliations of Gavan P. McNally include University of Michigan.
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Papers
Placing prediction into the fear circuit
TL;DR: Functional neuroimaging and clinical studies indicate that this aversive prediction error circuit is recruited in humans during fear learning and contributes to exposure-based treatments for clinical anxiety.
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Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning.
TL;DR: A review of the behavioral neuroscience of extinction can be found in this article, where a behavior that has been acquired through Pavlovian or instrumental learning decreases in strength when the outcome that reinforced it is removed.
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Paraventricular thalamus mediates context-induced reinstatement (renewal) of extinguished reward seeking
TL;DR: Results show that PvTh mediates context‐induced reinstatement and that this renewal is associated with recruitment of a PvTh–AcbSh pathway.
Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the behavioral, pain modulatory, and endocrine consequences of opiate withdrawal.
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TL;DR: Evidence is provided for a role of amygdala, but not bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, CRH in opiate dependence and a specific role for down-regulation of opiate receptor signaling in increased expression of the CRH gene in the amygdala is proposed.
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Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of punishment: implications for psychiatric disorders.
TL;DR: It is argued that a better understanding of the cellular, circuit, and cognitive mechanisms of punishment will make important contributions to next generation therapeutic approaches.
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