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Heather C. Ratigan

University of Chicago

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:imaging· 1 Research Focus:synaptic & neural circuits· 1

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Mark E. J. SheffieldiD· 2 shared Seetha KrishnaniD· 2 shared Can DongiD· 1 shared Chery CherianiD· 1 shared Denisse Morales-RodrigueziD· 1 shared Shai SmithiD· 1 shared

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Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintNov 26, 2024

A contextual fear conditioning paradigm in head-fixed mice exploring virtual reality.

Seetha Krishnan, Can Dong, Heather C. Ratigan…·Mark E. J. Sheffield

This paper develops a virtual reality-based contextual fear conditioning paradigm for head-fixed mice, demonstrating freezing behavior and hippocampal CA1 neuron remapping similar to freely moving animals.

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintMar 27, 2023

Direct Thalamic Inputs to Hippocampal CA1 Transmit a Signal That Suppresses Ongoing Contextual Fear Memory Retrieval

Heather C. Ratigan, Seetha Krishnan, Shai Smith, Mark E. J. Sheffield

The paper investigates the role of the NR-CA1 pathway in contextual fear memory retrieval, finding that it suppresses fear responses by disrupting memory retrieval.

2 citations

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