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Research
Summary:
Publications:
1. Chang, C.-H., Berke, J.D. and Maren, S. (2010), Single-unit
activity in the medial prefrontal cortex during immediate and delayed
extinction of fear in rats, PLoS ONE 5(8): e11971.
2. Chang, C.-H. and Maren, S. (2010), Strain difference in the effect
of infralimbic cortex lesions on fear extinction in rats, Behavioral
Neuroscience (124): 391-397.
3. Chang, C.-H., Knapska, E, Orsini, C.A., Rabinak, C.A., Zimmerman,
J.M., and Maren, S. (2009), Fear extinction in rodents, Current
Protocols in Neuroscience: 8.23.1-8.23.17.
4. Chang, C.-H. and Maren, S. (2009), Early extinction after fear
conditioning yields a context-independent and short-term suppression of
conditional fear in rats, Learn Mem (16): 62-68.
5. Rabinak, C.A, Zimmerman, J.M, Chang, C.-H., and Orsini, C.A. (2008),
Bidirectional changes in the intrinsic excitability of infralimbic
neurons reflect a possible regulatory role in the acquisition and
extinction of Pavlovian conditioned fear. J Neurosci (28): 7245-7247.
6. Liang, K.-C., Yen, C.-T., Chang, C.-H. and Chen, C.-C. (2007) ,
Involvement of the amygdala in two forms of inhibitory avoidance tasks.
In Onozuka M and CT Yen Eds:" New development in brain imaging",
Springer, Tokyo.
7. Maren, S and Chang, C.-H. (2006), Recent fear is resistant to
extinction, PNAS (103): 18020-18025.
8. Garcia, R., Chang, C.-H., and Maren, S. (2006), Electrolytic lesions
of the medial prefrontal cortex do not interfere with long-term memory
of extinction of conditioned fear, Learn Mem (13): 14-17.
9. Chang, C.-H., Liang, K.-C. and Yen, C.-T. (2005), Inhibitory
Avoidance Learning Altered Ensemble Activity of Amygdaloid Neurons in
Rats, Eur. J. Neurosci(21): 210-218.