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Robert M. Sears, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Positions

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Yale University

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Devaluation of response-produced safety signals reveals circuits for goal-directed versus habitual avoidance in dorsal striatum

Sears, Robert M; Andrade, Erika C; Samels, Shanna B; Laughlin, Lindsay C; Moloney, Danielle M; Wilson, Donald A; Alwood, Matthew R; Moscarello, Justin M; Cain, Christopher K

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2024 Feb 13;

Neonatal ethanol causes profound reduction of cholinergic cell number in the basal forebrain of adult animals

Smiley, John F; Bleiwas, Cynthia; Canals-Baker, Stefanie; Williams, Sharifa Z; Sears, Robert; Teixeira, Catia M; Wilson, Donald A; Saito, Mariko

Alcohol. 2021 Aug 28; 97:1-11

Reducing shock imminence eliminates poor avoidance in rats

Laughlin, Lindsay C; Moloney, Danielle M; Samels, Shanna B; Sears, Robert M; Cain, Christopher K

Learning & memory. 2020 Jul; 27(7):270-274

A brainstem-central amygdala circuit underlies defensive responses to learned threats

Gu, Yiran; Piper, Walter T; Branigan, Lauren A; Vazey, Elena M; Aston-Jones, Gary; Lin, Longnian; LeDoux, Joseph E; Sears, Robert M

Molecular psychiatry. 2020 Mar; 25(3):640-654

Axon TRAP reveals learning-associated alterations in cortical axonal mRNAs in the lateral amgydala

Ostroff, Linnaea E; Santini, Emanuela; Sears, Robert; Deane, Zachary; Kanadia, Rahul N; LeDoux, Joseph E; Lhakhang, Tenzin; Tsirigos, Aristotelis; Heguy, Adriana; Klann, Eric

eLife. 2019 Dec 11; 8:

A principled method to identify individual differences and behavioral shifts in signaled active avoidance

Krypotos, Angelos-Miltiadis; Moscarello, Justin M; Sears, Robert M; LeDoux, Joseph E; Galatzer-Levy, Isaac

Learning & memory. 2018 Nov; 25(11):564-568

Characterization of the amplificatory effect of norepinephrine in the acquisition of Pavlovian threat associations

Diaz-Mataix, Lorenzo; Piper, Walter T; Schiff, Hillary C; Roberts, Clark H; Campese, Vincent D; Sears, Robert M; LeDoux, Joseph E

Learning & memory. 2017 09; 24(9):432-439

beta-Adrenergic Receptors Regulate the Acquisition and Consolidation Phases of Aversive Memory Formation through Distinct, Temporally-Regulated Signaling Pathways

Schiff, Hillary C; Johansen, Joshua P; Hou, Mian; Bush, David Ea; Smith, Emily K; Klein, JoAnna E; LeDoux, Joseph E; Sears, Robert M

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2017 Mar; 42(4):895-903

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