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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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: the International Journal on the Biology of 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 USA.
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 and Memory.
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.
The 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.
The 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 and Memory.
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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Response of parvalbumin interneurons and perineuronal nets in rat medial prefrontal cortex and lateral amygdala to stressor controllability.
Brain Research.
2025
Teaching
courses taught
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NRSC 2100 - Introduction to Neuroscience
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021
Provides an introduction to fundamental concepts in neuroscience. The goal of this first course is to provide a strong foundation in neurobiology-cell biology, physiology of the neuronal membrane, interneuronal communication, neurotransmission, gross anatomy, and how the brain develops. Students will also learn principles of sensory systems functions. Recitation will reinforce lecture concepts through discussion of current research. -
NRSC 2125 - Introduction to Neuroscience I: Foundations
Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Provides an introduction to fundamental knowledge and principles in neuroscience. The goal of this first semester of an Introduction to Neuroscience two semester sequence is to provide a strong foundation in neurobiology-cell biology, physiology of the neuronal membrane, synaptic neurotransmission, neurochemistry, gross anatomy and introduction to sensory perception. Recitation will reinforce lecture concepts. -
NRSC 4011 - Senior Thesis
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
Senior Thesis credits are available for students during the semester that they write and defend a departmental Honors Thesis. A neuroscience honors thesis must be based on an empirical research project that the student directs/participates in under guidance from a faculty member. Contact the neuroscience director for further information. -
NRSC 6100 - Advances in Neuroscience Seminar
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Designed for beginning graduate students interested in neuroscience. Students read, discuss, and evaluate the primary literature on a number of current topics in neuroscience as well as attend the seminar program in neuroscience. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. -
NRSC 7102 - Topics in Neuroscience
Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
Advanced seminar dealing with different specialized topics in neuroscience. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Instructor consent required for students outside of the department.
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