Publications

Cole, K.E., and Parsons, R.G. (2023). Sex difference in the facilitation of fear learning by prior fear conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 205, 107835.

Russo, A.S., and Parsons, R.G. (2022). Neural activity in afferent projections to the infralimbic cortex is associated with individual differences in the recall of fear extinction. Sci Rep 12, 13703.

Russo, A.S., and Parsons, R.G. (2021). Behavioral expression of contextual fear in male and female rats. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Jun 18;15:671017.

Barfield, E.T., Sequeira, M.K., Parsons, R.G., Gourley, S.L. (2020) Morphological responses of excitatory prelimbic and orbitofrontal cortical neurons to excess corticosterone in adolescence and acute stress in adulthood. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2020.00045

Cole, K.E., Lee, J., Davis, M., Parsons, R.G. (2019). Subthreshold fear conditioning produces a rapidly developing neural mechanism that primes subsequent learning. eNeuro, doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0113-19.2019

Voulo, M.E., and Parsons, R.G. (2019). Gonadal hormone fluctuations do not affect the expression or extinction of fear potentiated startle in female rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, doi:10.1037/bne0000324

Russo, A.S., Lee, J., and Parsons, R.G. (2019). Individual variability in the recall of fear extinction is associated with phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in the infralimbic cortex. Psychopharmacology (Berl). doi:10.1007/s00213-019-05195-2

Lee, J., Russo, A.S., Parsons, R.G. (2018). Facilitation of fear learning by prior and subsequent fear conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 347, 61-68.

Parsons, R.G. (2018). Behavioral and neural mechanisms by which prior experience impacts subsequent learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 154, 22-29.

Barfield, E.T., Gerber, K.J., Zimmermann, K.S., Ressler, K.J., Parsons, R.G., Gourley, S.L. (2017) Regulation of actions and habits by ventral hippocampal trkB and adolescent corticosteroid exposure, PLoS Biology 15(11) e2003000.

Voulo, M.E., and Parsons, R.G. (2017). Response-specific sex difference in the retention of fear extinction. Learning and Memory, 24, 245 –251.

Russo, A.R., and Parsons, R.G. (2017). Acoustic startle response in rats predicts inter-individual variation in fear extinction. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 139, 157-164

Sharp, W.G., Allen, A.G., Stubbs, K.H., Criado, K.K., Sanders, R., McCracken, C.E., Parsons, R.G., Scahill, L., Gourley, S.L. (2017). Successful pharmacotherapy for the treatment of severe feeding aversion with mechanistic insights from cross-species neuronal remodeling. Translational Psychiatry 7: e1157.

Shapiro, L. P., Parsons, R. G., Koleske, A. J., and Gourley, S.L. (2017). Differential expression of cytoskeletal regulatory factors in the adolescent prefrontal cortex: Implications for cortical development. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 95, 1123-1143.

Parsons, R.G., Walker, D.L., and Davis, M. (2016). Mechanisms underlying long-term fear memory formation from a metaplastic neuronal state. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 136, 47-53

Parsons, R.G., and Ressler, K.J. (2013). Implications of memory modulation for post-traumatic stress and disorders of fear. Nature Neuroscience, 16, 146-153.

Gafford, G.M., Parsons, R.G, and Helmstetter (2013). Memory accuracy predicts hippocampal mTOR pathway activation following retrieval of contextual fear memory. Hippocampus, 23, 824-847.

Parsons, R.G., and Davis, M. (2012). A metaplasticity-like mechanism supports the selection of fear memories: Role of Protein Kinase A in the amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 7843-7851.

Jarome, T.J., Kwapis, J.L, Werner, C.T., Parsons, R.G., Gafford, G.M., and Helmstetter, F.J. (2012). The timing of multiple retrieval events can alter synaptic GluR1 phosphorylation and the requirement for protein synthesis in fear memory reconsolidation. Learning and Memory, 19, 300-306.

Parsons, R.G., and Davis, M. (2011). Temporary disruption of fear potentiated startle following PKMζ inhibition in the amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 14, 295-296