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  1. Temporary inactivation of the nucleus accumbens shell impairs the acquisition and expression of appetitive inhibitory learning in male Wistar rats

    Article • Neuroscience, August 2025, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  2. Too little and too much: medial prefrontal functional inhibition impairs early acquisition of operant reversal learning, whereas medial prefrontal disinhibition impairs established serial-reversal performance in rats

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Carl W Stevenson

  3. Pharmacological modulation of Kv3 voltage-gated potassium channels regulates fear discrimination and expression in a response-dependent manner

    Article • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, December 2023, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  4. Dopamine D1-like receptors modulate synchronized oscillations in the hippocampal–prefrontal–amygdala circuit in contextual fear

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carl W Stevenson

  5. Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries

    Article • PLOS One, August 2023, PLOS

    Helen Cassaday, Carl W Stevenson

  6. From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, July 2023, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  7. Camellia sinensis solvent extract, epigallocatechin gallate and caffeine confer trophocidal and cysticidal effects against Acanthamoeba castellanii

    Article • Acta Tropica, January 2023, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  8. Endocannabinoid metabolism inhibition has no effect on spontaneous fear recovery or extinction resistance in Lister hooded rats

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, December 2022, Frontiers

    Carl W Stevenson

  9. Cannabidiol Prevents Spontaneous Fear Recovery after Extinction and Ameliorates Stress-Induced Extinction Resistance

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Carl W Stevenson

  10. URB597 induces subtle changes to aggression in adult Lister Hooded rats

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, August 2022, Frontiers

    Carl W Stevenson

  11. Illuminating Host-Parasite Interaction at the Cellular and Subcellular Levels with Infrared Microspectroscopy

    Article • Cells, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Carl W Stevenson, Assistant Professor Doctor alaa tariq abdulwahid alsandaqchi

  12. Hippocampal Disinhibition Reduces Contextual and Elemental Fear Conditioning While Sparing the Acquisition of Latent Inhibition

    Article • eNeuro, January 2022, Society for Neuroscience

    Carl W Stevenson

  13. Strain comparisons in inhibitory discrimination learning and novel object recognition procedures

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, October 2021, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  14. In it together? The case for endocannabinoid–noradrenergic interactions in fear extinction

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, April 2021, Wiley

    Carl W Stevenson

  15. Could Cannabidiol Be a Treatment for Coronavirus Disease-19-Related Anxiety Disorders?

    Article • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, February 2021, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Carl W Stevenson

  16. Structural, Functional, and Metabolic Alterations in Human Cerebrovascular Endothelial Cells during Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Amelioration by Verapamil In Vitro

    Article • Microorganisms, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Assistant Professor Doctor alaa tariq abdulwahid alsandaqchi, Carl W Stevenson

  17. In vitro activity of Camellia sinensis (green tea) against trophozoites and cysts of Acanthamoeba castellanii

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, August 2020, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  18. Dopamine regulation of contextual fear and associated neural circuit function

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, May 2020, Wiley

    Carl W Stevenson

  19. Sex differences in auditory fear discrimination are associated with altered medial prefrontal cortex function

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carl W Stevenson

  20. Improved functional connectivity network estimation for brain networks using multivariate partial coherence

    Article • Journal of Neural Engineering, March 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carl W Stevenson

  21. The neurobiological basis of sex differences in learned fear and its inhibition

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, November 2019, Wiley

    Carl W Stevenson

  22. Cannabinoid Regulation of Fear and Anxiety: an Update

    Article • Current Psychiatry Reports, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carl W Stevenson

  23. Dopamine D1-like receptors in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex regulate contextual fear conditioning

    Article • Psychopharmacology, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carl W Stevenson

  24. Adaptive spectral tracking for coherence estimation: the z-tracker

    Article • Journal of Neural Engineering, January 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carl W Stevenson

  25. Metallome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells infected with Toxoplasma gondii using μ-XRF imaging and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Article • Metallomics, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Carl W Stevenson, Assistant Professor Doctor alaa tariq abdulwahid alsandaqchi

  26. Cannabidiol effects on fear and drug memory processing

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, March 2017, Wiley

    Carl W Stevenson

  27. Bidirectional Effects of Cannabidiol on Contextual Fear Memory Extinction

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, December 2016, Frontiers

    Carl W Stevenson

  28. Cannabidiol Regulation of Learned Fear: Implications for Treating Anxiety-Related Disorders

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, November 2016, Frontiers

    Carl W Stevenson

  29. Sex differences in learned fear expression and extinction involve altered gamma oscillations in medial prefrontal cortex

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, November 2016, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  30. Sex differences in discriminating between cues predicting threat and safety

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, September 2016, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  31. Non-parametric directionality analysis – Extension for removal of a single common predictor and application to time series

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Methods, August 2016, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  32. Dopamine D1-like receptor signalling in the hippocampus and amygdala modulates the acquisition of contextual fear conditioning

    Article • Psychopharmacology, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carl W Stevenson

  33. Medial prefrontal cortex circuit function during retrieval and extinction of associative learning under anesthesia

    Article • Neuroscience, April 2014, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  34. Persistent prelimbic cortex activity contributes to enhanced learned fear expression in females

    Article • Learning & Memory, January 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Carl W Stevenson

  35. Basolateral amygdala activity during the retrieval of associative learning under anesthesia

    Article • Neuroscience, March 2013, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  36. Role of amygdala–prefrontal cortex circuitry in regulating the expression of contextual fear memory

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, September 2011, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  37. Early life programming of fear conditioning and extinction in adult male rats

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, December 2009, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  38. Neonatal maternal separation alters reward-related ultrasonic vocalizations in rat dams

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, June 2009, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  39. Early life programming of innate fear and fear learning in adult female rats

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, March 2009, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  40. Early life programming of hemispheric lateralization and synchronization in the adult medial prefrontal cortex

    Article • Neuroscience, August 2008, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  41. Early life stress causes FG-7142-induced corticolimbic dysfunction in adulthood

    Article • Brain Research, February 2008, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  42. Systemic administration of the benzodiazepine receptor partial inverse agonist FG-7142 disrupts corticolimbic network interactions

    Article • Synapse, January 2007, Wiley

    Carl W Stevenson

  43. Effects of neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion in rats on stress-induced acetylcholine release in the prefrontal cortex

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, December 2004, Wiley

    Carl W Stevenson

  44. Basolateral amygdala dopamine receptor antagonism modulates initial reactivity to but not habituation of the acoustic startle response

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, August 2004, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson

  45. Role of basolateral amygdala dopamine in modulating prepulse inhibition and latent inhibition in the rat

    Article • Psychopharmacology, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carl W Stevenson

  46. Variations in Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Associated with Individual Differences in Maternal Behavior in the Rat

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, April 2004, Society for Neuroscience

    Carl W Stevenson

  47. Basolateral amygdala modulation of the nucleus accumbens dopamine response to stress: role of the medial prefrontal cortex

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, March 2003, Wiley

    Carl W Stevenson

  48. Effects of basolateral amygdala dopamine depletion on the nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortical dopamine responses to stress

    Article • Neuroscience, January 2003, Elsevier

    Carl W Stevenson