Fred Westbrook

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University of New South Wales

Australia

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Fred Westbrook is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on the molecular substrates of conditioned fear, the impact of diet on microbiome development, and the mechanisms of memory consolidation in the brain. His recent articles explore the relationship between diet and spatial navigation, as well as the effects of neurobiological processes on associative learning and conditioning.

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How an innocuous event never associated with danger becomes frightening

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2021-12-31

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Modelling post-traumatic stress disorder in rats: hypervigilance and spread of fear

Open Date: 2018-01-01

Close Date: 2020-01-01

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The neural substrates of a false fear memory in rats

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2019-12-31

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The effects of the western diet on cognition in rats

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2020-01-01

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The effect of oxytocin on the formation, expression and inhibition of fear memories

Open Date: 2015-01-01

Close Date: 2017-12-31

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Margaret Morris

Professor of Pharmacology, Head

UNSW Sydney

AUSTRALIA

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Vincent Laurent

Senior Lecturer

University of New South Wales

AUSTRALIA

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Peter Lovibond

Professor

UNSW Sydney

AUSTRALIA

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Nathan Holmes

University of New South Wales

UNITED KINGDOM

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Ian Johnston

Associate Professor

University of Sydney

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Andrew Delaney

Charles Sturt University

AUSTRALIA

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Kit S. Double

Senior Lecturer

University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA

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Consumption of a diet high in fat and sugar is associated with worse spatial navigation ability in a virtual environment

The Molecular Substrates of Second-Order Conditioned Fear in the Basolateral Amygdala Complex

Pregnancy-related changes in microbiome are disrupted by obesogenic diet exposure: implications for offspring microbiome development

Pregnancy-related changes in microbiome are disrupted by obesogenic diet exposure: implications for offspring microbiome development

Context and Time Regulate Fear Memory Consolidation and Reconsolidation in the Basolateral Amygdala Complex

Stimulating oxytocin receptors in the basolateral amygdala enhances stimulus processing: Differential and consistent effects for stimuli paired with fear versus sucrose in extinction and reversal learning

What is Learned Determines How Pavlovian Conditioned Fear is Consolidated in the Brain

The Role of Uncertainty in Regulating Associative Change

The effects of extinction and an explicitly unpaired treatment on the reinforcing properties of a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus

The Role of Expectancy in Pavlovian Conditioning

The Benefits of Switching to a Healthy Diet on Metabolic, Cognitive, and Gut Microbiome Parameters Are Preserved in Adult Rat Offspring of Mothers Fed a High‐Fat, High‐Sugar Diet

Obesogenic Diet Cycling Produces Graded Effects on Cognition and Microbiota Composition in Rats

Second-order fear conditioning involves formation of competing stimulus-danger and stimulus-safety associations

Danger changes the way the brain consolidates neutral information; and does so by interacting with processes involved in the encoding of that information

NMDA Receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala Complex Are Engaged for Pavlovian Fear Conditioning When an Animal’s Predictions about Danger Are in Error

Prediction Error Determines Whether NMDA Receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala Complex Are Involved in Pavlovian Fear Conditioning

Chronic exposure to cafeteria-style diet in rats alters sweet taste preference and reduces motivation for, but not ‘liking’ of sucrose

Not “either-or” but “which-when”: A review of the evidence for integration in sensory preconditioning

Hippocampal silent infarct leads to subtle cognitive decline that is associated with inflammation and gliosis at twenty-four hours after injury in a rat model

An application of Wagner’s Standard Operating Procedures or Sometimes Opponent Processes (SOP) model to experimental extinction.

Collaborators (7)

Margaret Morris

Vincent Laurent

Peter Lovibond

Nathan Holmes

Ian Johnston

Andrew Delaney

Kit S. Double

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