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Selected Publications
 

Salam, J.N., Fox, J.H., DeTroy, E.M. Guignon, M.H. Wohl, D.F. Falls, W. A. (in press). Voluntary exercise in C57 mice is anxiolytic across several measures of anxiety. Behavioural Brain Research.

Waddell, J., M. E. Bouton, et al. (2008). "Central CRF receptor antagonist a-helical CRF9-41 blocks resintatement of extinguished fear: the role of the bed nucleus of the strai terminalis." Behavioral Neuroscience 122(5).

Fox, J.H. Hammack, S.E. & Falls, W.A. (2008). Exercise is associated with reduction in the anxiogenic effect of mCPP on acoustic startle. Behavioral Neuroscience.122(4), 943-948.

Bucci, D.J. & Falls, W.A. (2007). An Undergraduate Neuroscience Seminar Based on the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE), 5(2). A49-A52.

Bursztajn, S. Friedman, M. & Falls, W.A. (2007).  Cell Proliferation in the Brains of NMDAR NR1 Transgenic Mice.  Brain Research, 1172.

Heldt, S.A. & Falls, W.A. (2006).  Posttraining lesions of the auditory thalamus, but not cortex, disrupt inhibition of fear conditioned to an auditory stimulus.  European Journal of Neuroscience.  23, 765-779

Jaworski D.M., Boone J., Caterina J., Soloway P. & Falls W.A. (2005). Prepulse inhibition and fear-potentiated startle are altered in tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2) knockout mice. Brain Research. 1051, 81-9.

Waddell, J. Dunnett, C. & Falls, W.A. (2004).  C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice differ in extinction and renewal of extinguished fear.  Behavioural Brain Research, 154, 567-576.

Heldt, S.A. & Falls, W.A. (2003). Destruction of the inferior colliculus disrupts the production and inhibition of fear conditioned to an acoustic stimulus. Behavioural Brain Research, 144, 175-185.

Waddell, J. Heldt, S.A. & Falls, W.A. (2003).  Posttraining lesion of the superior colliculus interferes with feature-negative discrimination of fear-potentiated startle.  Behavioural Brain Research, 142, 115-124.

Heldt, S.A. Coover, GD. & Falls, W.A. (2002). Posttraining but not pretraining lesions of the hippocampus interfere with feature-negative discrimination of fear-potentiated startle. Hippocampus, 12, 774-786.

Falls, W.A. (2002) Fear-potentiated Startle in Mice, in Current Protocols in Neuroscience (J. Crawley Ed), Supplement 19, Unit 8.11B