research overview
- Research focus is directed at understanding how experiential factors modify an organism's response to future challenge
- Contact Info
Baratta, Michael V
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- behavioral neuroscience, stress resilience
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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Multiple Sex- and Circuit-Specific Mechanisms Underlie Exercise-Induced Stress Resistance.
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences.
37-60.
2024
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Processes of Stress Resistance and Stress Resilience.
128-154.
2023
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An Integrative Model for Endophenotypes Relevant to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Detailed Methodology for Inescapable Tail Shock Stress (IS) and Juvenile Social Exploration (JSE).
Neuromethods.
135-168.
2023
- The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in mediating resistance and vulnerability to the impact of adverse events 2009
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Multiple Sex- and Circuit-Specific Mechanisms Underlie Exercise-Induced Stress Resistance.
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences.
37-60.
2024
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journal article
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Active coping mitigates the effects of stress on glucocorticoid levels in the prefrontal cortex.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
2025
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Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning.
Molecular Psychiatry.
5427-5436.
2025
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Dr. Steven F. Maier: A fearless scientist, a rigorous mentor, and a legacy of excellence.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
303-304.
2025
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Salience Signaling and Stimulus Scaling of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neuron Subtypes.
Journal of Neuroscience.
2025
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Modulation of dorsal raphe nucleus connectivity and serotonergic signalling to the insular cortex in the prosocial effects of chronic fluoxetine.
Neuropharmacology.
2025
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Response of parvalbumin interneurons and perineuronal nets in rat medial prefrontal cortex and lateral amygdala to stressor controllability.
Brain Research.
2025
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Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning.
2024
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Ventral tegmental area glutamate neurons mediate nonassociative consequences of stress.
Molecular Psychiatry.
2024
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Use of an immunocapture device to detect cytokine release in discrete brain regions.
Neural Regeneration Research.
703-704.
2024
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Prior experience with behavioral control over stress facilitates social dominance.
Neurobiology of Stress.
2024
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The Role of Dorsal Raphe Nucleus Serotonergic Systems in Emotional Learning and Memory in Male BALB/c Mice.
Neuroscience.
1-15.
2023
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Combining RNAscope and immunohistochemistry to visualize inflammatory gene products in neurons and microglia.
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.
2023
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Prior experience with behavioral control over stress facilitates social dominance.
2023
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From helplessness to controllability: toward a neuroscience of resilience.
Frontiers in Psychiatry.
2023
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Elevated prefrontal dopamine interferes with the stress-buffering properties of behavioral control in female rats.
Neuropsychopharmacology.
498-507.
2023
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Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress.
Stress.
2023
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Immunization with a heat-killed preparation of Mycobacterium vaccae NCTC 11659 enhances auditory-cued fear extinction in a stress-dependent manner.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
1-15.
2023
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SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 subunit induces neuroinflammatory, microglial and behavioral sickness responses: Evidence of PAMP-like properties.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
267-277.
2022
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Environmental certainty influences the neural systems regulating responses to threat and stress.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
1037-1055.
2021
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Effects of Immunization With the Soil-Derived Bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae on Stress Coping Behaviors and Cognitive Performance in a "Two Hit" Stressor Model.
Frontiers in Physiology.
2021
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Acute stress induces the rapid and transient induction of caspase-1, gasdermin D and release of constitutive IL-1 beta protein in dorsal hippocampus.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
70-80.
2020
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Sex differences in resilience: Experiential factors and their mechanisms.
European Journal of Neuroscience.
2530-2547.
2020
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Voluntary exercise enables stress resistance in females.
Behavioural Brain Research.
2019
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Hybrid photoacoustic-fluorescence microendoscopy through a multimode fiber using speckle illumination.
APL Photonics.
2019
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Controllable stress elicits circuit-specific patterns of prefrontal plasticity in males, but not females.
Brain Structure and Function.
1831-1843.
2019
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New tools for understanding coping and resilience.
Neuroscience Letters.
54-57.
2019
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A novel platform for in vivo detection of cytokine release within discrete brain regions.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
18-22.
2018
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DREADDed microglia in pain: Implications for spinal inflammatory signaling in male rats.
Experimental Neurology.
125-131.
2018
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DREADDed microglia in pain: Implications for spinal inflammatory signaling in male rats..
Experimental Neurology.
125-131.
2018
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Behavioural and neural sequelae of stressor exposure are not modulated by controllability in females.
European Journal of Neuroscience.
959-967.
2018
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Inhibition of a Descending Prefrontal Circuit Prevents Ketamine-Induced Stress Resilience in Females.
eNeuro.
2018
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Hippocampal Processing of Ambiguity Enhances Fear Memory.
Psychological Science.
143-161.
2017
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A robust activity marking system for exploring active neuronal ensembles.
eLife.
2016
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Activation of a Habenulo-Raphe Circuit Is Critical for the Behavioral and Neurochemical Consequences of Uncontrollable Stress in the Male Rat.
eNeuro.
2016
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Morphine paradoxically prolongs neuropathic pain in rats by amplifying spinal NLRP3 inflammasome activation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
E3441-E3450.
2016
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Stress Enables Reinforcement-Elicited Serotonergic Consolidation of Fear Memory.
Biological Psychiatry.
814-822.
2016
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DAT isn't all that: cocaine reward and reinforcement require Toll-like receptor 4 signaling.
Molecular Psychiatry.
1525-1537.
2015
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Control over stress accelerates extinction of drug seeking via prefrontal cortical activation.
Neurobiology of Stress.
20-27.
2015
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Dynamic microglial alterations underlie stress-induced depressive-like behavior and suppressed neurogenesis.
Molecular Psychiatry.
699-709.
2014
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Understanding stress resilience.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
2013
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Special issue on optogenetics Preface.
Behavioural Brain Research.
1-2.
2013
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A Method for High Fidelity Optogenetic Control of Individual Pyramidal Neurons In vivo.
Journal of Visualized Experiments.
2013
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Cocaine self-administration in mice with forebrain knock-down of trpc5 ion channels..
F1000Research.
53.
2013
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Optogenetic Mimicry of the Transient Activation of Dopamine Neurons by Natural Reward Is Sufficient for Operant Reinforcement.
PLoS ONE.
2012
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High fidelity optogenetic control of individual prefrontal cortical pyramidal neurons in vivo..
F1000Research.
7.
2012
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A high-light sensitivity optical neural silencer: development and application to optogenetic control of non-human primate cortex.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
2011
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Activation of the infralimbic cortex in a fear context enhances extinction learning.
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).
591-599.
2010
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Synaptic Correlates of Increased Cognitive Vulnerability with Aging: Peripheral Immune Challenge and Aging Interact to Disrupt Theta-Burst Late-Phase Long-Term Potentiation in Hippocampal Area CA1.
Journal of Neuroscience.
7598-7603.
2010
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Selective activation of dorsal raphe nucleus-projecting neurons in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex by controllable stress.
European Journal of Neuroscience.
1111-1116.
2009
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Stress-induced activity in the locus coeruleus is not sensitive to stressor controllability.
Brain Research.
109-118.
2009
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The Sensory Insular Cortex Mediates the Stress-Buffering Effects of Safety Signals But Not Behavioral Control.
Journal of Neuroscience.
13703-13711.
2008
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Role of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex in mediating behavioral control-induced reduction of later conditioned fear.
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).
84-87.
2008
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Controllable versus uncontrollable stressors bi-directionally modulate conditioned but not innate fear.
Neuroscience.
1495-1503.
2007
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Microglia serve as a neuroimmune substrate for stress-induced potentiation of CNS pro-inflammatory cytokine responses.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
47-59.
2007
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Behavioral control, the medial prefrontal cortex, and resilience..
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience.
397-406.
2006
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Cortistatin overexpression in transgenic mice produces deficits in synaptic plasticity and learning.
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.
465-475.
2005
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Effect of number of tailshocks on learned helplessness and activation of serotonergic and noradrenergic neurons in the rat.
Behavioural Brain Research.
299-306.
2005
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Medial prefrontal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus.
Nature Neuroscience.
365-371.
2005
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Inescapable shock activates serotonergic neurons in all raphe nuclei of rat.
Behavioural Brain Research.
233-239.
2004
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fMRI BOLD response to alcohol stimuli in alcohol dependent young women.
Addictive Behaviors.
33-50.
2004
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Somatostatin depresses long-term potentiation and Ca2+ signaling in mouse dentate gyrus.
Journal of Neurophysiology.
3078-3086.
2002
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Attention dysfunction predicts substance involvement in community youths.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
2002
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Active coping mitigates the effects of stress on glucocorticoid levels in the prefrontal cortex.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
2025
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 2008
- B.S., University of California-San Diego 1999
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Australia Country