Search this site
  

PUBLICATIONS

The articles are arranged by year and alphabetical order by author.

Books

LeDoux J.E. (2001) Synaptic self . New York: Viking.

LeDoux J.E. (1996) The Emotional Brain. New York: Simon & Schuster.  Foreign Publications of the book

Recent Articles, Reviews, Chapters, and Abstracts

1993-1991
,1992-1997, 1998, 1999,  2000 , 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,2005 2006, 2007
2008

2008

Joseph E. LeDoux: Amygdala. Scholarpedia (2008)- in process.

Schiller D, Cain CK, Curley NG, Schwartz JS, Stern SA, Ledoux JE, Phelps EA. Evidence for recovery of fear following immediate extinction in rats and humans.1: Learn Mem. 2008 May 28;15(6):394-402. <Abstract><Full>

Sotres-Bayon F, Diaz-Mataix L, Bush DE, Ledoux JE. Dissociable Roles for the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala in Fear Extinction: NR2B Contribution.Cereb Cortex. 2008 Jun 17. <Abstract><Full>

 


2007

Scholarpedia Articles

Joseph E. LeDoux: Emotional Memory. Scholarpedia (2007), 2(7):180
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Burghardt NS, Bush DE, McEwen BS, Ledoux JE.Acute Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Increase Conditioned Fear Expression: Blockade With a 5-HT(2C) Receptor Antagonist. Biol Psychiatry. 2007 May 22; [Epub ahead of print] <Abstract><Full>

Bush DE, Sotres-Bayon F, Ledoux JE.Individual differences in fear: Isolating fear reactivity and fear recovery phenotypes. J Trauma Stress. 2007 Aug 22;20(4):413-422 [Epub ahead of print] <Abstract><Full>

Butler T, Pan H, Tuescher O, Engelien A, Goldstein M, Epstein J, Weisholtz D, Root JC, Protopopescu X, Cunningham-Bussel AC, Chang L, Xie XH, Chen Q, Phelps EA, Ledoux JE, Stern E, Silbersweig DA. Human fear-related motor neurocircuitry.Neuroscience. 2007 Nov 30;150(1):1-7. Epub 2007 <Abstract><Full>

Cain CK, Ledoux JE. Escape from fear: A detailed behavioral analysis of two atypical responses reinforced by CS termination.J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2007 Oct;33(4):451-63. PMID: 17924792 [PubMed - in process] <Abstract> <Full>

Doyère V, Debiec J, Monfils MH, Schafe GE, LeDoux JE.. Synapse-specific reconsolidation of distinct fear memories in the lateral amygdala. Nature Neuroscience - 10, 414 - 416 (2007). <Abstract> <Full>

Hu H, Real E, Takamiya K, Kang MG, Ledoux J, Huganir RL, Malinow R.
Emotion enhances learning via norepinephrine regulation of AMPA-receptor trafficking.Cell. 2007 Oct 5;131(1):160-73. <Abstract><Full>

Kopec CD, Kessels HW, Bush DE, Cain CK, Ledoux JE, Malinow R. A robust automated method to analyze rodent motion during fear conditioning.
Neuropharmacology. 2007 Jan;52(1):228-33. Epub 2006 Aug 22. <Abstract><Full>

LeDoux J.The amygdala.Curr Biol. 2007 Oct 23;17(20):R868-74. Review. No abstract available. <full>

Monfils MH, Cowansage KK, LeDoux JE.Brain-derived neurotrophic factor: linking fear learning to memory consolidation.Mol Pharmacol. 2007 Aug;72(2):235-7. Epub 2007 May 23. <Abstract><Full>

Protopopescu X, Pan H, Tuescher O, Cloitre M, Goldstein M, Engelien A, Yang Y, Gorman J, LeDoux J, Stern E, Silbersweig D.Increased brainstem volume in panic disorder: a voxel-based morphometric study.Neuroreport. 2006 Mar 20;17(4):361-3. <Abstract>

Radley JJ, Farb CR, He Y, Janssen WG, Rodrigues SM, Johnson LR, Hof PR, Ledoux JE, Morrison JH.Distribution of NMDA and AMPA receptor subunits at thalamo-amygdaloid dendritic spines.Brain Res. 2007 Jan 4; [Epub ahead of print] <Abstract><Full>

Sigurdsson T, Doyere V, Cain CK, Ledoux JE.Long-term potentiation in the amygdala: A cellular mechanism of fear learning and memory.
Neuropharmacology. 2007 Jan;52(1):215-27. Epub 2006 Aug 21. <Abstract><Full>

Sotres-Bayon F, Bush DE, Ledoux JE.Acquisition of Fear Extinction Requires Activation of NR2B-Containing NMDA Receptors in the Lateral Amygdala.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2007 Jan 10; <Abstract><Full>

Yehuda R, LeDoux J. Response Variation following Trauma: A Translational Neuroscience Approach to Understanding PTSD. Neuron. 2007 Oct 4;56(1):19-32. Review. <Abstract> <Full


2006

Debiec J, Doyere V, Nader K, Ledoux JE.
Directly reactivated, but not indirectly reactivated, memories undergo reconsolidation in the amygdala.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Feb 28;103(9):3428-33. Epub 2006 Feb 21. <Abstract><Full article>

Debiec J, Ledoux JE. Noradrenergic signaling in the amygdala contributes to the reconsolidation of fear memory: treatment implications for PTSD.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006 Jul;1071:521-4. <Abstract>

Kopec CD, Kessels HW, Bush DE, Cain CK, Ledoux JE, Malinow R. A robust automated method to analyze rodent motion during fear conditioning.
Neuropharmacology. 2006 Aug 18;<Abstract><Full article>

Lamprecht R, Margulies DS, Farb CR, Hou M, Johnson LR, Ledoux JE.
Myosin light chain kinase regulates synaptic plasticity and fear learning in the lateral amygdala. Neuroscience. 2006 Feb 28. <Abstract><Full article>

Lamprecht R, Farb CR, Rodrigues SM, LeDoux JE.Fear conditioning drives profilin into amygdala dendritic spines.Nat Neurosci. 2006 Apr;9(4):481-3. Epub 2006 Mar 19. <Abstract><Full article>

Radley JJ, Johnson LR, Janssen WG, Martino J, Lamprecht R, Hof PR, LeDoux JE, Morrison JH.Associative Pavlovian conditioning leads to an increase in spinophilin-immunoreactive dendritic spines in the lateral amygdala.
Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Aug;24(3):876-84. <Abstract><Full article>

Sotres-Bayon F, Cain CK, Ledoux JE. Brain Mechanisms of Fear Extinction: Historical Perspectives on the Contribution of Prefrontal Cortex. <Abstract><Full article>

Wilensky AE, Schafe GE, Kristensen MP, LeDoux JE.Rethinking the fear circuit: the central nucleus of the amygdala is required for the acquisition, consolidation, and expression of Pavlovian fear conditioning<Abstract><Full article>


2005
Apergis-Schoute AM, Debiec J, Doyere V, LeDoux JE, Schafe GE.
Auditory fear conditioning and long-term potentiation in the lateral amygdala require ERK/MAP kinase signaling in the auditory thalamus: a role for presynaptic plasticity in the fear system. J Neurosci. 2005 Jun 15;25(24):5730-9. <Abstract><Full article>

Blair HT, Sotres-Bayon F, Moita MA, Ledoux JE.
The lateral amygdala processes the value of conditioned and unconditioned aversive stimuli.Neuroscience. 2005;133(2):561-9. <Abstract><Full article>

Duvarci S, Nader K, LeDoux JE.
Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase- mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in the amygdala is required for memory reconsolidation of auditory fear conditioning. Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Jan;21(1):283-9. <Abstract><Full article>

Johnson LR, Farb C, Morrison JH, McEwen BS, Ledoux JE. Localization of glucocorticoid receptors at postsynaptic membranes in the lateral amygdala.
Neuroscience. 2005;136(1):289-99. Epub 2005 Sep 21. <Abstract><Full article>

Pham K, McEwen BS, Ledoux JE, Nader K.
Fear learning transiently impairs hippocampal cell proliferation.Neuroscience. 2005;130(1):17-24. <Abstract><Full article>

Phelps EA, Ledoux JE.Contributions of the amygdala to emotion processing: from animal models to human behavior. Neuron. 2005 Oct 20;48(2):175-87.
<Abstract><Full article>

Schafe GE, Bauer EP, Rosis S, Farb CR, Rodrigues SM, Ledoux JE.
Memory consolidation of Pavlovian fear conditioning requires nitric oxide signaling in the lateral amygdala. Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Jul;22(1):201-11.
<Abstract><Full article>

Schafe GE, Doyere V, LeDoux JE.Tracking the fear engram: the lateral amygdala is an essential locus of fear memory storage.
J Neurosci. 2005 Oct 26;25(43):10010-4. <Abstract><Full article>


2004

Bauer EP, LeDoux JE.
Heterosynaptic long-term potentiation of inhibitory interneurons in the lateral amygdala.The Journal of Neuroscience, October 27, 2004, 24(43):9507-9512 <Abstract><Full article>

Burghardt NS, Sullivan GM, McEwen BS, Gorman JM, LeDoux JE
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor citalopram increases fear after
acute treatment but reduces fear with chronic treatment: a comparison with
tianeptine. Biol Psychiatry. 2004 Jun 15;55(12):1171-8<Abstract><Full article>

Debiec J, Ledoux JE. Disruption of reconsolidation but not consolidation of auditory fear conditioning by noradrenergic blockade in the amygdala.
Neuroscience. 2004;129(2):267-72.<Abstract><Full article>

Lamprecht R, LeDoux J.
Structural plasticity and memory. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2004 Jan;5(1):45-54.<Full article>

Lanuza E, K. Nader and J. E. Ledoux
Unconditioned stimulus pathways to the amygdala: Effects of posterior thalamic and cortical lesions on fear conditioning.Neuroscience 125 (2004) 305–315<Full Article>

Moita MA, Rosis S, Zhou Y, LeDoux JE, Blair HT.
Putting fear in its place: remapping of hippocampal place cells during fear conditioning.J Neurosci. 2004 Aug 4;24(31):7015-23. <Abstract><Full article>

Pare D, Quirk GJ, Ledoux JE.
New vistas on amygdala networks in conditioned fear.J Neurophysiol. 2004 Jul;92(1):1-9. Review. <Abstract><Full article>

Phelps EA, Delgado MR, Nearing KI, LeDoux JE.
Extinction Learning in Humans; Role of the Amygdala and vmPFC.Neuron. 2004 Sep 16;43(6):897-905. <Abstract><Full article>

Rodrigues SM, Farb CR, Bauer EP, LeDoux JE, Schafe GE.
Pavlovian fear conditioning regulates Thr286 autophosphorylation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II at lateral amygdala synapses.J Neurosci. 2004 Mar 31;24(13):3281-8. <Abstract><Full article>

Rodrigues SM, Schafe GE, LeDoux JE. Molecular mechanisms underlying emotional learning and memory in the lateral amygdala. Neuron. 2004 Sep 30;44(1):75-91.<Abstract><Full article>

Sotres-Bayon F, Bush DE, LeDoux JE.
Emotional perseveration: an update on prefrontal-amygdala interactions in fear extinction.Learn Mem. 2004 Sep-Oct;11(5):525-35. <Abstract><Full article>

Sullivan GM, Apergis J, Bush DE, Johnson LR, Hou M, Ledoux JE. Lesions in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis disrupt corticosterone and freezing responses elicited by a contextual but not by a specific cue-conditioned fear stimulus.Neuroscience. 2004;128(1):7-14. <Abstract><Full article>


2003

Blair HT, Tinkelman A, Moita MA, LeDoux JE.
Associative plasticity in neurons of the lateral amygdala during auditory fear conditioning.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Apr;985:485-7. <Full article>

Debiec J, LeDoux JE.
Conclusions: from self-knowledge to a science of the self.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Oct;1001:305-15. < Abstract > <Full article>

Doyere V
, Schafe GE, Sigurdsson T, LeDoux JE.
Long-term potentiation in freely moving rats reveals asymmetries in thalamic and cortical inputs to the lateral amygdala.Eur J Neurosci. 2003 Jun;17(12):2703-15. <Abstract>

LeDoux J.
The self: clues from the brain.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Oct;1001:295-304. <Abstract><Full article>

LeDoux J.
The emotional brain, fear, and the amygdala.
Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2003 Oct;23(4-5):727-38. <Abstract>

Morgan MA,
Schulkin J, LeDoux JE.
Ventral medial prefrontal cortex and emotional perseveration: the memory for prior extinction training.
Behav Brain Res. 2003 Nov 30;146(1-2):121-30. <Abstract><Full article>

Moita MA, Rosis S, Zhou Y, LeDoux JE, Blair HT.
Hippocampal Place Cells Acquire Location-Specific Responses to the Conditioned Stimulus during Auditory Fear Conditioning.Neuron. 2003 Feb 6;37(3):485-97. <Abstract><Full article>

Sullivan GM, Apergis J, Gorman JM, LeDoux JE.Rodent doxapram model of panic: behavioral effects and c-Fos immunoreactivity in the amygdala. Biol Psychiatry. 2003 May 15;53(10):863-70.
<Abstract>


2002
 
Bauer EP, Schafe GE, LeDoux JE.
NMDA Receptors and L-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels Contribute to Long-Term Potentiation and Different Components of Fear Memory Formation in the Lateral Amygdala. J Neurosci. 2002 Jun 15;22(12):5239-49.<Abstract><Full article>

Debiec J
, Joseph E. LeDoux, and Karim Nader
Cellular and Systems Reconsolidation in the Hippocampus. Neuron Oct 24, 2002, 36 (3) 527–538
<Abstract><Full article>

Lamprecht R
, Farb CR, LeDoux JE
Fear Memory Formation Involves p190 RhoGAP and ROCK Proteins through a GRB2-Mediated Complex. Neuron. 2002 Nov 14;36(4):727-38.
<Abstract><Full article>

Doron NN
, Ledoux JE, Semple MN.
Redefining the tonotopic core of rat auditory cortex: Physiological evidence for a posterior field.
J Comp Neurol. 2002 Nov 25;453(4):345-60.<Abstract><Full article>

Moita MA
, Lamprecht R, Nader K, LeDoux JE.
A-kinase anchoring proteins in amygdala are involved in auditory fear memory.
Nat Neurosci. 2002 Sep;5(9):837-8.<Abstract><Full article>

Medina JF
, Christopher Repa J, Mauk MD, LeDoux JE.
Parallels between cerebellum- and amygdala-dependent conditioning. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2002 Feb;3(2):122-31. Review.<Abstract><Full article>

Rodrigues SM
, Bauer EP, Farb CR, Schafe GE, LeDoux JE.
The Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor mGluR5 Is Required for Fear Memory Formation and Long-Term Potentiation in the Lateral Amygdala. J Neurosci. 2002 Jun 15;22(12):5219-29.<Abstract><Full article>

2001
Bauer EP, LeDoux JE, Nader K.Fear conditioning and LTP in the lateral amygdala are sensitive to the same stimulus contingencies.Nat Neurosci. 2001 Jul;4(7):687-8. No abstract available.<Abstract><Full article>

Blair HT, Schafe GE, Bauer EP, Rodrigues SM, LeDoux JE. Synaptic plasticity in the lateral amygdala: a cellular hypothesis of fear conditioning.Learn Mem. 2001 Sep-Oct;8(5):229-42. Review.<Abstract><Full article>

Blanchard C, Blanchard R, Fellous JM, Guimaraes FS, Irwin W, Ledoux JE, McGaugh JL, Rosen JB, Schenberg LC, Volchan E, Da Cunha C. The brain decade in debate: III. Neurobiology of emotion. Braz J Med Biol Res. 2001 Mar;34(3):283-93. Review.<Abstract><Full article>

LeDoux JE, Gorman JM.A call to action: overcoming anxiety through active coping.Am J Psychiatry. 2001 Dec;158(12):1953-5<Full article>

Nader K, Majidishad P, Amorapanth P, LeDoux JE.Damage to the lateral and central, but not other, amygdaloid nuclei prevents the acquisition of auditory fear conditioning.Learn Mem. 2001 May-Jun;8(3):156-63.<Abstract><Full article>

Peper M, Karcher S, Wohlfarth R, Reinshagen G, LeDoux JE. Aversive learning in patients with unilateral lesions of the amygdala and hippocampus. Biol Psychol. 2001 Sep;58(1):1-23.<Abstract><Full article>

Repa JC, Muller J, Apergis J, Desrochers TM, Zhou Y, LeDoux JE.Two different lateral amygdala cell populations contribute to the initiation and storage of memory.Nat Neurosci. 2001 Jul;4(7):724-31.<Abstract><Full article>

Rodrigues SM, Schafe GE, LeDoux JE.(2001) Intra-amygdala blockade of the nr2b subunit of the nmda receptor disrupts the acquisition but not the expression of fear conditioning.
J Neurosci. 2001 Sep 1;21(17):6889-96.<Abstract><Full article>

Schafe GE, Nader K, Blair HT, LeDoux JE. Memory consolidation of Pavlovian fear conditioning: a cellular and molecular perspective.Trends Neurosci. 2001 Sep;24(9):540-6.<Abstract><Full article>
Yaniv D, Schafe GE, LeDoux JE, Richter-Levin G. A gradient of plasticity in the amygdala revealed by cortical and subcortical stimulation, in vivo. Neuroscience. 2001;106(3):613-20.<Abstract><Full article>

2000
Amorapanth, P., LeDoux, J.E., Nader, K. (2000) Different lateral amygdala outputs mediate reactionand actions elicited by a fear-arousing stimulus. Nat Neurosci 2000 Jan;3(1):74-79. <Abstract><Full article>

Doron, N. N., LeDoux, J. E. (2000). Cells in the posterior thalamus project to both amygdala and temporal cortex: A quantitative retrograde double-labeling study in the rat. J. Comp. Neurol. 425:257-74.<Abstract><Full article>

Nader, K., Schafe, G. and LeDoux, J.E. (2000) Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature, Aug 17 406(6797):722-6. <Abstract><Full article>

Nader, K., Schafe, G. and LeDoux, J.E. (2000) The labile nature of consolidation theory. Nature Neuroscience Reviews. Dec;1(3):216-9. <Abstract>

Schafe G and LeDoux JE (2000) Memory consolidation of auditory Pavlovian fear conditioning requires protein synthesis and PKA in the amygdala. J. Neuroscience 20: 8177-8187. <Abstract><Full article>

Schafe, G. E., Fitts, D. A., Thiele, T. E., LeDoux, J. E., Bernstein, I. L. (2000) The induction of c-Fos in the NTS after taste aversion learning is not correlated with measures of conditioned fear. Behav. Neurosci. 114:99-106. <Abstract>

Schafe, G.E. and LeDoux, J.E. (2000). Memory consolidation of auditory Pavlovian fear conditioning requires protein synthesis and protein kinase A in the amygdala. The Journal of Neuroscience, 20, RC96, 1-5.<Abstract><Full article>

Schafe, G.E., Atkins, C.M., Swank, M.W., Bauer, E.P., Sweatt, J.D., and LeDoux, J.E. (2000). Activation of ERK/MAP kinase in the amygdala is required for memory consolidation of Pavlovian fear conditioning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 8177-8187. <Abstract> <Full article>

Wilensky, A.E., Schafe, G.E., and LeDoux, J.E. (2000) The amygdala modulates memory consolidation of fear-motivated inhibitory avoidance learning but not classical fear conditioning. J. Neurosci. 20(18), 7059-7066. <Abstract><Full article>

Woodson W. , Farb CR and LeDoux JE (2000) Projections from the Auditory Thalamus to Inhibitory Interneurons in the Lateral Nucleus of the Amygdala. Synapse 38: 124-137.

Woodson, W., Farb, C.R., and LeDoux, J.E. (2000) Afferents from the Auditory Thalamus Synapse on Inhibitory Interneurons in the Lateral Nucleus of the Amygdala. Synpase,38: 124-137. <Abstract><Full article>

Yaniv, D., Schafe, G.E., LeDoux, J.E., and Richter-Levin, G. (2000). Perirhinal cortex and thalamic stimulation induces LTP in different areas of the amygdala. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 911, 474-6.<Abstract>

Chapters and Review Articles

LeDoux, J.E. (2000) Emotion circuits in the brain. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 23:155-184. <Abstract><Full article>

Nader K, Schafe GE, LeDoux JE. The labile nature of consolidation theory.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2000 Dec;1(3):216-9. Review. <Abstract>

Nader, K., and LeDoux, J.E. (2000) How the brain produces fear: A Re-evaluation. In J. Bolhuis (Ed.), Brain mechanisms of perception, learning and memory. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press.

Phelps, E. A. and LeDoux, J. E. (2000) Emotional Networks in the Brain. In M. Lewis and J. M. Haviland-Jones (eds) Handbook of Emotions, 2nd Ed. Guilford Press, New York.

Rogan MT, Weisskopf MG, Huang YY, Kandel ER, and LeDoux JE (2000) Long-term potentiation in the amygdala: Implications for memory formation. In C. Holscher (ed) Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory Formation. Cambridge UK, Cambridge U. Press.

1999
Amorapanth P, Nader K, LeDoux JE. (1999) Lesions of periaqueductal gray dissociate-conditioned freezing from conditioned suppression behavior in rats. Learning and Memory 6, 491-9.<Abstract><Full article>

Conrad, C. D., Magarinos, A. M., LeDoux, J. E., and McEwen, B. S. (1999). Repeated restraint stress enhances emotionality and fear conditioning, independently of causing hippocampal CA3 dendritic atrophy. Behavioral Neuroscience. 113:1-12.<Abstrac>

Doron, N.N. and LeDoux, J.E. (1999) Organization of projections to the lateral amygdala from auditory and visual areas of the thalamus in the rat. J. Comp. Neurol. 412:383-409 (erratum appears J Comp Neurol. (2000) 417(3):385-386. <Abstract><Full article>

Farb, C.R., LeDoux, J.E. (1999) Afferents From Rat Temporal Cortex Synapse on Lateral Amygdala Neurons That Express NMDA and AMPA Receptors Synapse 33:218-229. <Abstract> <Full article>

Morgan, M. A, LeDoux, J. E. (1999) Contribution of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex to the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear in rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 72:244-251.<Abstract><Full article>

Nader, K. LeDoux, J.E. (1999) The dopaminergic modulation of fear: Quinpirole impairs the recall of emotional memories. Behavioral Neuroscience 113(1):152-165.
<Abstract>


Nader, K, LeDoux, J.E. (1999) Inhibition of the mesoamygdala dopaminergic pathway impairs the retrieval of conditioned fear associations. Behavioral Neuroscience. 113:891-901.<Abstract>


Nader, K., & LeDoux, J.E. (in press) Neural circuits underlying fear. In J. Schulkin (Ed.), Extreme Shyness and Fear: Origins, Correlates, and Outcomes. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press.

Schafe, G.E., Nadel, N.V., Sullivan, G.M., Harris, A., LeDoux, J.E. (1999) Memory consolidatoin for contextual and auditory fear conditioning is dependent on protein synthesis, PKA, and MAP kinase. Learning & Memory 6:97-110. <Abstract><Full article>


Stutzmann, G.E., LeDoux, J.E. (1999) GABAergic Antagonists Block the Inhibitory Effects of Serotonin in the Lateral Amygdala: A Mechanism for Modulation of Sensory Inputs Related to Fear Conditioning. The Journal of Neuroscience RC8:1-4.<Abstract> <Full text>


Weisskopf, M. and LeDoux, J.E. (1999) Distinct populations of NMDA receptors at subcortical and cortical inputs to principal cells of the lateral amygdala. Journal of Neurophysiology 81:930 -934 <Abstract><Full article>

Weisskopf, M., Bauer, E. and LeDoux J.E. (1999) L-type voltage gated calcium channels mediate NMDA-independent associative long-term potentiation at thalamic input synapses to the amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience. 19:10512-10519.<Abstract><Full article>

Wilensky, A.E., Schafe, G.E., and LeDoux, J.E. (1999) Functional inactivation of the amygdala before but not after auditory fear conditioning prevents memory formation. Journal of Neuroscience. 19 RC48 1-5.<Abstract><Full article>

Chapters and Review Articles
Armony, J. L. and LeDoux, J. E. (1999) How danger is encoded: Towards a systems, cellular, and computational understanding of cognitive-emotional interactions in fear circuits. In M.S. Gazzaniga, The Cognitive Neurosciences. MIT Press, Cambridge.

Fanselow, M. S. and LeDoux, J. E. (1999) Why we think plasticity underlying Pavlovian fear conditioning occurs in the basolateral amygdala. Neuron 23:229-232.<Abstract><Full article>

LaBar, K., and LeDoux, J. E. (1999). Coping with Danger: The neural basis of defensive behaviors and fearful feelings. In Handbook of Physiology. Coping with Environment (Oxford University Press) Vol. Part 3. (in press)

LeDoux, J. E. (1999) Can Neurobiology Tell Us Anything About Human Feelings? to appear in D. Kahneman, E. Diener, and N. Schwarz (eds) Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Scientific Perspectives on Enjoyment and Suffering. New York, Russell Sage Foundation.

LeDoux, J. E. (1999) Cognition and Emotion: Listen to the Brain. In R. Lane (ed) Emotion and Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford U. Press, New York.

LeDoux, J. E. (1999) Fear and the Brain: Where have we been and where are we going? Biological Psychiatry 44:1229-1238.<Full article>

LeDoux, J. E. and Rogan, M. (1999) Emotion and the Animal Brain. In R.A. Wilson and F.C. Keil, The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MIT Press, pp. 269-271.

LeDoux, J.E. (1999) Emotional circuits in the brain. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. 2nd ed. Elsevier. 644-646.

LeDoux, J.E. (1999). Psychoanalytic Theory: Clues from the Brain. Neuro-Psychoanalysis. Conn., International Universities Press, 1(1):44-49.

Nader, K. and LeDoux, J. E. (1999) The Neural Circuits that Underlie Fear. In L. A. Schmidt and J. Schulkin (eds) Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia. Oxford U. Press, New York

1998

Armony JL, Quirk GJ, LeDoux JE (1998) Differential effects of amygdala lesions on early and late plastic components of auditory cortex spike trains during fear conditioning. Journal of Neuroscience 18(7):2592-601.
<Abstract><Full article>


LaBar KS, Gatenby JC, Gore JC, LeDoux JE, Phelps EA (1998) Human amygdala activation during conditioned fear acquisition and extinction: a mixed-trial fMRI study. Neuron 20(5):937-45. <Abstract><Full article>

LeDoux, J.E. (1998) Cognition and Emotion: Listen to the Brain. In R. Lane (ed) Emotion and Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford U. Press, New York.

LeDoux, J.E. (1998) Fear and the Brain: Where have we been and where are we going? Biological Psychiatry 44:1129-1238.

Stutzmann GE, McEwen BS, LeDoux JE (1998) Serotonin modulation of sensory inputs to the lateral amygdala: dependency on corticosterone. Journal of Neuroscience 18(22):9529-38.<Abstract><Full text>


Articles 1992-1997


Articles 1983-1991


Send questions or comments about this website to: Webmaster