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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2019

Making translation work: Harmonizing cross-species methodology in the behavioural neuroscience of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

Jan Haaker, Stephen Maren, Marta Andreatta, Christian J Merz, Jan Richter, S Helene Richter, Shira Meir Drexler, Maren D Lange, Kay Jüngling, Frauke Nees and 4 more

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Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 10 institutions in 4 countries.

Jan HaakerDepartment of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: j.haaker@uke.de.
Stephen MarenDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
Marta AndreattaDepartment of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Christian J MerzRuhr University Bochum, Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Germany.
Jan RichterDepartment of Biological and Clinical Psychology/Psychotherapy, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
S Helene RichterDepartment of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Shira Meir DrexlerRuhr University Bochum, Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Germany.
Maren D LangeInstitute of Physiology I, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Kay JünglingInstitute of Physiology I, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Frauke NeesDepartment of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Thomas SeidenbecherInstitute of Physiology I, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Miquel A FullanaInstitute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clinic, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona, Spain.
Carsten T WotjakNeuronal Plasticity Research Group, Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804, Munich, Germany.
Tina B LonsdorfDepartment of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
University of Münster · DERuhr University Bochum · DECentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental · ESMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry · DETexas A&M University · USUniversität Greifswald · DEUniversität Hamburg · DEUniversity Hospital Heidelberg · DEUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf · DEUniversity of Würzburg · DE

Funding

Neural Substrates of Contextual Memory in Fear ExtinctionR01MH065961 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MAREN, STEPHEN · 2003 to 2025
$7.9M
Neural Circuits for Stress-Impaired Extinction LearningR01MH117852 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Stephen Maren · 2018 to 2026
$4.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH065961NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH117852
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Translational neuroscience bridges insights from specific mechanisms in rodents to complex functions in humans and is key to advance our general understanding of central nervous function. A prime example of translational research is the study of cross-species mechanisms that underlie responding to learned threats, by employing Pavlovian fear conditioning protocols in rodents and humans. Hitherto, evidence for (and critique of) these cross-species comparisons in fear conditioning research was based on theoretical viewpoints. Here, we provide a perspective to substantiate these theoretical concepts with empirical considerations of cross-species methodology. This meta-research perspective is expected to foster cross-species comparability and reproducibility to ultimately facilitate successful transfer of results from basic science into clinical applications.

Indexed as

Conditioning, ClassicalExtinction, PsychologicalFearHumansNeurosciencesReflex, StartleTranslational Research, BiomedicalAssociative learningFear conditioningFear extinctionFPSHeat-rateHumanIndividual differencesMeta-researchMethodsParadigmRodentSCRStartleTranslationTreezing

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PMID31521698
PMCPMC7822629
OpenAlexW2973072420

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