By Scientia Professor Fred Westbrook

Journal articles

Martire SI; Maniam J; South T; Holmes N; Westbrook RF; Morris MJ, 2014, 'Extended exposure to a palatable cafeteria diet alters gene expression in brain regions implicated in reward, and withdrawal from this diet alters gene expression in brain regions associated with stress', Behavioural Brain Research, 265, pp. 132 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.027

South T; Holmes NM; Martire SI; Westbrook RF; Morris MJ, 2014, 'Rats eat a cafeteria-style diet to excess but eat smaller amounts and less frequently when tested with chow', Plos One, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093506

Siette J; Reichelt AC; Westbrook RF, 2014, 'A bout of voluntary running enhances context conditioned fear, its extinction, and its reconsolidation', Learning and Memory, 21, pp. 73 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.032557.113

Delamater AR; Westbrook RF, 2014, 'Psychological and neural mechanisms of experimental extinction: A selective review', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 108, pp. 38 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.09.016

Holmes NM; Westbrook RF, 2014, 'ABA renewal is greater when extinction occurs in the same context as cue pre-exposure', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 40, pp. 369 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000024

Hart G; Holmes NM; Harris JA; Westbrook RF, 2014, 'Benzodiazepine administration prevents the use of error-correction mechanisms during fear extinction', Learning and Behavior, 42, pp. 383 - 397, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-014-0155-9

Hart G; Panayi MC; Harris JA; Westbrook RF, 2014, 'Benzodiazepine treatment can impair or spare extinction, depending on when it is given', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 56, pp. 22 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2014.02.004

Holmes NM; Griffiths O; Westbrook RF, 2014, 'The influence of partner cues on the extinction of causal judgments in people', Learning and Behavior, 42, pp. 289 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-014-0146-x

Leung HT; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'Error correction in latent inhibition and its disruption by opioid receptor blockade with naloxone', Neuropsychopharmacology, 38, pp. 2439 - 2445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2013.144

Leung HT; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'A further assessment of the hall-rodriguez theory of latent inhibition', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, 39, pp. 117 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031724

Holmes NM; Parkes SL; Killcross AS; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'The Basolateral Amygdala is critical for learning about neutral stimuli in the presence of danger, and the perirhinal cortex is critical in the absence of danger', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 13112 - 13125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1998-13.2013

Martire SI; Holmes N; Westbrook RF; Morris MJ, 2013, 'Altered Feeding Patterns in Rats Exposed to a Palatable Cafeteria Diet: Increased Snacking and Its Implications for Development of Obesity', Plos One, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060407

Holmes NM; Westbrook RF, 2013, 'Extinction of reinstated or ABC renewed fear responses renders them resistant to subsequent ABA renewal.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39, pp. 208 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031986

Griffiths O; Westbrook F, 2012, 'A common error term regulates acquisition but not extinction of causal judgments in people', Learning and Behavior, pp. 207 - 221

South TJ; Westbrook F; Morris MJ, 2012, 'Neurological and stress related effects of shifting obese rats from a palatable diet to chow and lean rats from chow to a palatable diet', Physiology and Behavior, 105, pp. 1052 - 1057, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.11.019

Leung H; Killcross AS; Westbrook F, 2011, 'Additional Exposures to a Compound of Two Preexposed Stimuli Deepen Latent Inhibition', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 37, pp. 394 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0023714

Lavan D; Mcdonald JS; Westbrook RF; Arabzadeh E, 2011, 'Behavioural correlate of choice confidence in a discrete trial paradigm', PLoS One, 6, pp. Article number e26863, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026863

Rosenberg H; Harris JA; Holmes N; Westbrook F, 2011, 'Pre-exposure enhances recovery of conditioned responding', Learning and Behavior, 39, pp. 212 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-011-0019-5

Parkes S; Westbrook F, 2011, 'Role of the basolateral amygdala and NMDA receptors in higher-order conditioned fear.', Reviews in the Neurosciences, 22, pp. 317 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/RNS.2011.025

Holtzman O; Siette J; Westbrook F; Holmes N, 2010, 'Additional exposures reverse the latent inhibitory effects of recent and remote exposures', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 36, pp. 368 - 380

Parkes S; Westbrook F, 2010, 'Basolateral amygdala is critical for the acquisition and extinction of associations between a neutral stimulus and a learned danger signal but not between two neutral stimuli', Journal of Neuroscience, 30, pp. 12608 - 12618

Holtzman O; Laurent V; Westbrook F, 2010, 'Blockade of dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens impairs learning extinction of conditioned fear', Learning and Memory, 17, pp. 71 - 75

Leung H; Westbrook F, 2010, 'Increased spontaneous recovery with increases in the amount of conditioned stimulus alone exposures', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 36, pp. 354 - 367

Westbrook F; Laurent V, 2010, 'Role of the basolateral amygdala in the reinstatement and extinction of fear responses to a previously extinguished conditioned stimulus', Learning and Memory, 17, pp. 86 - 96

Hart G; Harris J; Westbrook F; Harris J, 2010, 'Systemic or intra-amygdala infusion of the benzodiazepine, midazolam, impairs learning, but facilitates re-learning to inhibit fear responses in extinction', Learning and Memory, 17, pp. 210 - 220

Martire K; Parkes S; Westbrook F, 2010, 'The effects of FG 7142 on sensory-specific satiety in rats.', Behavioural Brain Research, 209, pp. 131 - 136

Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2009, 'Inactivation of the infralimbic but not the prelimbic cortex impairs consolidation and retrieval of fear extinction', Learning and Memory, 16, pp. 520 - 529

Hamlin AS; Mcnally GP; Westbrook RF; Osborne PB, 2009, 'Induction of Fos proteins in regions of the nucleus accumbens and ventrolateral striatum correlates with catalepsy and stereotypic behaviours induced by morphine', Neuropharmacology, 56, pp. 798 - 807

Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2009, 'Infusion of the NMDA receptor antagonist, DL-APV, into the basolateral amygdala disrupts learning to fear a novel and a familiar context as well as relearning to fear an extinguished context', Learning and Memory, 16, pp. 96 - 105

Vollmer-Conna US; Bird KD; Yeo BW; Truskett PG; Westbrook RF; Wakefield D, 2009, 'Psychological factors, immune function and recovery from major surgery', ACTA Neuropsychiatrica, 21, pp. 169 - 178

Delamater A; Campese V; Westbrook RF, 2009, 'Renewal and Spontaneous Recovery, but Not Latent Inhibition, Are Mediated by Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid in Appetitive Conditioning', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 35, pp. 224 - 237

Hart G; Harris JA; Westbrook RF, 2009, 'Systemic or intra-amygdala injection of a benzodiazepine (midazolam) impairs extinction but spares re-extinction of conditioned fear responses', Learning and Memory, 16, pp. 53 - 61

Sah P; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'Behavioural neuroscience - The circuit of fear', Nature, 454, pp. 589 - 590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/454589a

Mitchell CJ; Harris JA; Westbrook RF; Griffiths OD, 2008, 'Changes in Cue Associability Across Training in Human Causal Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 34, pp. 423 - 436

Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'Distinct contributions of the basolateral amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex to learning and relearning extinction of context conditioned fear', Learning and Memory, 15, pp. 657 - 666

Bailey GK; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'Extinction and latent inhibition of within-event learning are context specific', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 34, pp. 106 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.106

Sah P; Westbrook RF; Luthi A, 2008, 'Fear conditioning and long-term potentiation in the amygdala - What really is the connection?', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1129, pp. 88 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1417.020

Thein T; Harris JA; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'How the associative strengths of stimuli combine in compound: Summation and overshadowing', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 34, pp. 155 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.155

Li SH; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'Massed extinction trials produce better short-term but worse long-term loss of context conditioned fear responses than spaced trials', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 34, pp. 336 - 351

Harris JA; Livesey E; Gharaei S; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'Negative Patterning Is Easier Than a Biconditional Discrimination', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 34, pp. 494 - 500

Leung HT; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'Spontaneous Recovery of Extinguished Fear Responses Deepens Their Extinction: A Role for Error-Correction Mechanisms', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 34, pp. 461 - 474

Laurent V; Marchand AP; Westbrook RF, 2008, 'The basolateral amygdala is necessary for learning but not relearning extinction of context conditioned fear', Learning and Memory, 15, pp. 304 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.928208

Leung HT; Bailey GK; Laurent V; Westbrook RF, 2007, 'Rapid reacquisition of fear to a completely extinguished context is replaced by transient impairment with additional extinction training', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 33, pp. 299 - 313

Bailey GK; Westbrook RF, 2007, 'Within-event learning is disrupted by social isolation immediately after compound exposure', Behavioural Brain Research, 178, pp. 313 - 316

Mcnally GP; Westbrook RF, 2006, 'A short intertrial interval facilitates acquisition of context-conditioned fear and a short retention interval facilitates its expression', Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes, 32, pp. 164 - 172

Schwienbacher I; Schnitzler H; Westbrook RF; Richardson RD; Fendt M, 2006, 'Carbachol injections into the nucleus accumbens disrupt acquisition and expression of fear-potentiated startle and freezing in rats', Neuroscience, 140, pp. 769 - 778

Bouton M; Westbrook RF; Corcoran K; Maren S, 2006, 'Contextual and temporal modulation of extinction: Behavioral and biological mechanisms', Biological Psychiatry, 60, pp. 352 - 360

Nakamura T; Ito M; Croft DB; Westbrook RF, 2006, 'Domestic pigeons (Columba livia) discriminate between photographs of male and female pigeons', Learning and Behavior, 34, pp. 327 - 339

Iordanova MD; Westbrook RF; Killcross AS, 2006, 'Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens modulates blocking in fear conditioning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, pp. 3265 - 3270

Iordanova MD; Mcnally GP; Westbrook RF, 2006, 'Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens regulate attentional learning in the blocking paradigm', Journal of Neuroscience, 26, pp. 4036 - 4045

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