Mark Murphy

Evidence that a defined population of neurons in lateral amygdala is directly involved in auditory fear learning and memory

Christopher W Butler, Yvette M Wilson, Samuel A Mills, Jenny M Gunnersen, Mark Murphy

Journal article  |  2020  |  NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Memory is thought to be encoded within networks of neurons within the brain, but the identity of the neurons involved and circuits..

Neurons Specifically Activated by Fear Learning in Lateral Amygdala Display Increased Synaptic Strength

CW Butler, YM Wilson, J Oyrer, TJ Karle, S Petrou, JM Gunnersen, M Murphy, CA Reid

Journal article  |  2018  |  ENEURO

The lateral amygdala (LA) plays a critical role in the formation of fear-conditioned associative memories. Previous studies have u..

Tracking the fear memory engram: discrete populations of neurons within amygdala, hypothalamus, and lateral septum are specifically activated by auditory fear conditioning

Christopher W Butler, Yvette M Wilson, Jenny M Gunnersen, Mark Murphy

Journal article  |  2015  |  LEARNING & MEMORY

Memory formation is thought to occur via enhanced synaptic connectivity between populations of neurons in the brain. However, it h..

Reduction of p75 neurotrophin receptor ameliorates the cognitive deficits in a model of Alzheimer's disease

Mark Murphy, Yvette M Wilson, Ernesto Vargas, Kathryn M Munro, Belinda Smith, Amy Huang, Qiao-Xin Li, Junhua Xiao, Colin L Masters, Christopher A Reid, Graham L Barrett

Journal article  |  2015  |  NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an extremely prevalent cause of dementia. It is characterized by progressive memory loss, confusion, a..

Movement related directional tuning from broadband electrocorticography in humans

ES Nurse, DR Freestone, TJ Oxley, DC Ackland, SJ Vogrin, M Murphy, TJ O'Brien, MJ Cook, DB Grayden

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering : [proceedings]. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

© 2015 IEEE. Directional tuning is the tendency for cortical neurons to exhibit a peak firing rate when a limb is moved in a prefe..

Identification of neurons specifically activated after recall of context fear conditioning

Ata EA Ali, Yvette M Wilson, Mark Murphy

Journal article  |  2012  |  NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

The learning of new information and recall of that information presumably involves modification of and access to shared circuitry ..

Cells in the female retrotrapezoid region upregulate c-fos in response to 10%, but not 5%, carbon dioxide

Mary M Niblock, Kelly M Lohr, Melissa Nixon, Caitlin Barnes, Meredith Schaudies, Mark Murphy

Journal article  |  2012  |  BRAIN RESEARCH

The retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) is thought to regulate breathing in response to changes in blood carbon dioxide (CO(2)), and to m..

Context fear learning specifically activates distinct populations of neurons in amygdala and hypothalamus

Lidia Trogrlic, Yvette M Wilson, Andrew G Newman, Mark Murphy

Journal article  |  2011  |  LEARNING & MEMORY

The identity and distribution of neurons that are involved in any learning or memory event is not known. In previous studies, we i..

Audiogenic seizure proneness requires the contribution of two susceptibility loci in mice

M Catharine Jawahar, Carolina I Sari, Yvette M Wilson, Andrew J Lawrence, Thomas Brodnicki, Mark Murphy

Journal article  |  2011  |  NEUROGENETICS

Juvenile mice of the DBA/2J strain undergo generalised seizures when exposed to a high-intensity auditory stimulus. Genetic analys..

Congenic Mouse Strains Enable Discrimination of Genetic Determinants Contributing to Fear and Fear Memory

Yvette M Wilson, Thomas C Brodnicki, Andrew J Lawrence, Mark Murphy

Journal article  |  2011  |  BEHAVIOR GENETICS

The ability to learn and remember is variable within a population of a given species, including humans. This is due in part to gen..