Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

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2022 Sex-Specific Neural Networks of Cued Threat Conditioning: A Pilot Study.  Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.  16. 2022
2020 Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons require juvenile social experience to establish adult social behavior.  Nature Communications.  11. 2020
2020 Orexin signaling in GABAergic lateral habenula neurons modulates aggressive behavior in male mice.  Nature Neuroscience.  23:638-650. 2020
2019 Orexin signaling in GABAergic lateral habenula neurons modulates aggressive behavior 2019
2019 Prazosin during fear conditioning facilitates subsequent extinction in male C57Bl/6N mice.  Psychopharmacology.  236:273-279. 2019
2018 GABAergic interneurons: The orchestra or the conductor in fear learning and memory?.  Brain Research Bulletin.  141:13-19. 2018
2016 Multimodal and Site-Specific Plasticity of Amygdala Parvalbumin Interneurons after Fear Learning.  Neuron.  91:629-643. 2016
2016 Cortical PGC-1?-dependent transcripts are reduced in postmortem tissue from patients with schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Bulletin.  42:1009-1017. 2016
2015 Interneuron transcriptional dysregulation causes frequency-dependent alterations in the balance of inhibition and excitation in hippocampus 2015
2015 Cerebellar transcriptional alterations with Purkinje cell dysfunction and loss in mice lacking PGC-1α.  Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience.  8. 2015
2014 Mice lacking TrkB in parvalbumin-positive cells exhibit sexually dimorphic behavioral phenotypes.  Behavioural Brain Research.  274:219-225. 2014
2014 PGC-1α provides a transcriptional framework for synchronous neurotransmitter release from parvalbumin-positive interneurons 2014
2014 Mice lacking the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1α exhibit alterations in inhibitory synaptic transmission in the motor cortex.  Neuroscience.  271:137-148. 2014
2013 Abnormal expression of glutamate transporters in temporal lobe areas in elderly patients with schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research.  144:1-8. 2013
2012 Developmental alterations in motor coordination and medium spiny neuron markers in mice lacking PGC-1α.  PLoS One.  7. 2012
2012 Disruption of Purkinje cell function prior to huntingtin accumulation and cell loss in an animal model of Huntington Disease.  Experimental Neurology.  236:171-178. 2012
2010 Neuronal inactivation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α(PGC-1α) protects mice from diet-induced obesity and leads to degenerative lesions.  Journal of Biological Chemistry.  285:39087-39095. 2010
2010 Parvalbumin deficiency and GABAergic dysfunction in mice lacking PGC-1α 2010
2009 Do visually salient stimuli reduce children's risky decisions?.  Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.  16:223-232. 2009
2007 Unintentional injury risk in children with externalizing behavior disorders at summer camp.  Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.  14:145-151. 2007

Education And Training

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Department of Neuroscience, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2011
  • Bachelor of Science or Mathematics in Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2005

    • Full Name

  • Elizabeth Lucas