Our Research

A few questions our research seeks to answer include:

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• Which brain circuits co-control different types of fear?

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• What network, circuits, and genes control the strength of our fear memories?

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• Do brain-wide molecular networks exhibit a topological structure that represents learned fear differently than innate fear?

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• Are there key hub genes within these topologically-structured molecular networks that intrinsically differentiate between learned and innate fears?

We use a variety of research tools and techniques to answer the questions above, find out more about many of these techniques below.