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Current Activity and Recent Publications

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Recent Publications:

 

         Simon, B., Knuckley, B., Churchwell, J. & Powell, DA (2005).  Post-training lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex interfere with subsequent performance of trace eyeblink conditioning.  Journal of Neuroscience, 25(46), 10740-10746.

Powell, DA., & Ginsberg, J.P. (2005).  Single-unit activity in the medial prefrontal cortex:  effects of peripheral autonomic blockade. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 84, 200-213  

 

Powell, DA., Churchwell, J., & Burris, L. (2005).  Medial Prefrontal Lesions and Pavlovian Eyeblink and Heart Rate Conditioning: Effects of Partial Reinforcement on Delay and Trace Conditioning in Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).  Behavioral Neuroscience, 119(1), 180-189.

 

Chachich, MA., & Powell, DA.  (2004).  The Role of Claustrum in Pavlovian Heart Rate Conditioning in the Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) : Anatomical, Electrophysiological, and Lesion Studies. Behavioral Neuroscience,  118(3), 514-525.


McLaughlin J, Skaggs H, Churchwell J, Powell DA. (2002). Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Pavlovian Conditioning: Trace versus Delay Conditioning.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(1), 37-47.


Powell DA, Skaggs H, Churchwell J, McLaughlin J. (2001).  Post-training Lesions of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Impair Performance of Pavlovian Eyeblink Conditioning But Have No Effect on Concomitant Heart Rate Changes Behavioral Neuroscience, 115(5), 1029-1038.

 

          McLaughlin J, Powell DA. (2002).  Posttraining prefrontal lesions impair jaw movement conditioning performance, but have no effect on accompanying heart rate changes.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory,78(2), 279-293.


Powell, D.A. & Churchwell, J. (2002).  Mediodorsal Thalamic Lesions Impair Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in the Rabbit.  Learning & Memory, 9(1), 10-17.

 

McLaughlin J, Flaten MA, Chachich M, Powell DA.Medial Prefrontal Lesions Attenuate Conditioned Reflex Facilitation but do not Affect Prepulse Modification of the Eyeblink Reflex in Rabbits

 Experimental Brain Research, 140(3), 318-325.



         Ayers ED, White J., & Powell DA (2003).  Pavlovian eyeblink conditioning in combat veterans with and without post-traumatic stress disorder. Integrative Physiology and Behavioral Science,38(3), 230-47.

           

         Simon, B. B., Knuckley, B., & Powell, D. A. (2004).  Galantamine Facilitates Acquisition of a Trace-Conditioned Eyeblink Response in Healthy, Young Rabbits. Learning & Memory, 11,

 

 

 

 

 

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