2026

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McDannald MA (2026). "What Is My Neuron Doing? Commentary on Huang et al. (2026)." eNeuro. [pdf]

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2025

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Moaddab M, Qian S, Boyce JB, Gordon NT, DuBois AM, Fitzpatrick AC, Zheng K, and McDannald (2025). "Paraventricular thalamic inputs to the ventral pallidum shape reward seeking during threat and fear responding in extinction" Behavioral Neuroscience. [pdf]

 

Williams DC, Chu A, Gordon NT, DuBois AM, Qian S, Valvo G, Shen S, Boyce JB, Fitzpatrick AC, Moaddab M, Russell EL, Counsman LH, and McDannald MA (2025). "Ethograms predict visual fear conditioning status in rats" Elife. [pdf]

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2024

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Chu A, Gordon NT, DuBois AM, Michel CB, Hanrahan KE, Williams DC, Anzellotti S, and McDannald MA (2024). "A fear conditioned cue orchestrates a suite of behaviors in rats" Elife. [pdf]​

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Russell LR and McDannald MA (2024). "Ventral pallidum neurons are necessary to generalize and express fear-related responding in a minimal threat setting" eNeuro. [pdf]

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2023

 

McDannald MA (2023). "Pavlovian fear conditioning is more than you think it is" Journal of Neuroscience. [pdf]

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Wright KM, Cieslewski, Chu A, and McDannald MA (2023). "Optogenetic inhibition of the caudal substantia nigra inflates behavioral responding to uncertain threat and safety" Behavioral Neuroscience. [pdf]

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Wright KM, Kantor CE, Moaddab M, and McDannald MA (2023). "Timing of behavioral responding to long duration Pavlovian fear conditioned cues" bioRxiv. [pdf]

 

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2022

 

Strickland JS and McDannald MA (2022). "Brainstem networks construct threat probability and prediction error from neuronal building blocks" Nature Communications. [pdf]

 

Walker RA, Suthard RL, Perison TN, Sheehan NM, Dwyer CC, Lee JK, Enabulele EK, Ray MH, and McDannald MA (2022). "Dorsal Raphe 5-HT Neurons Utilize, But Do Not Generate, Negative Aversive Prediction Errors" eNeuro. [pdf]

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Ray MH, Moaddab M, and McDannald MA (2022). "Threat and bidirectional valence signaling in the nucleus accumbens core" Journal of Neuroscience. [pdf]

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2021

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McDannald MA (2021). "Decision making: Serotonin goes for goal" Current Biology. [pdf]

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Moaddab M and McDannald MA (2021). "Retrorubral field is a hub for diverse threat and aversive outcome signals" Current Biology. [pdf]

 

Moaddab M, Ray MH, and McDannald MA (2021). "Ventral pallidum neurons dynamically signal relative threat" Communications Biology. [pdf]

 

Strickland JA, Dileo AD, Moaddab M, Ray MH, Walker RA, Wright KW, and McDannald MA (2021). "Foot shock facilitates reward seeking in an experience-dependent manner" Behavioural Brain Research. [pdf]

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2020

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Moaddab M, Wright KW, and McDannald MA (2020). "Early adolescent adversity alters periaqueductal gray/dorsal raphe threat responding in adult female rats" Scientific Reports. [pdf]

 

Ray MH, Russ AN, Walker RA, and McDannald MA (2020). "The nucleus accumbens core is necessary to scale fear to degree of threat" Journal of Neuroscience. [pdf]