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Gavan P. McNally
Professor & Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
Associate Dean – Research Training
Academic Career:
BSc (Hon), PhD UNSW
Selected Publications:
- McNally, G.P., Johansen, J., & Blair, H.T. (2011). Placing prediction into the fear circuit. Trends in Neurosciences, in press.
- Marchant, N.J., Furlong, T.M., & McNally, G.P. (2010). Medial dorsal hypothalamus mediates the inhibition of reward seeking after extinction. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 14102 – 14115.
- Millan, Z., Furlong, T.M., & McNally, G.P. (2010). Accumbens shell – hypothalamus interactions mediate extinction of alcohol seeking. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 4626-4635
- Marchant, N.J., Hamlin, A.S., & McNally, G.P. (2009). Lateral hypothalamus is required for context induced reinstatement of reward seeking. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 1331-1342.
- Hamlin, A.S., Clemens, K.J., Choi, E.A., & McNally, G.P. (2009). Paraventricular thalamus mediates context induced reinstatement (renewal) of extinguished reward seeking. European Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 802-812.
- Bradfield, L., & McNally, G.P. (2008). Unblocking in Pavlovian fear conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 256 - 265.
- Iordanova, M., McNally, G.P., & Westbrook, R.F. (2006). Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens regulate attentional learning in the blocking paradigm. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 4036-4045.
- McNally, G.P., Pigg, M., & Weidemann, G. (2004). Opioid receptors in the midbrain periaqueductal gray matter regulate the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 6912-6919.
Current Research Grants:
- (2010 – 2012) Mechanisms for the extinction of drug seeking. NHMRC Project grant. McNally.
- (2008 – 2012) Predicting danger: the nature, consequences, and neural mechanisms of predictive fear learning. Discovery Project, Australian Research Council. McNally.
- (2011 – 2013) Prefrontal cortical mechanisms for fear learning. NHMRC Project grant. McNally.
- (2011 – 2013) When is extinction not extinction? Discovery Project, Australian Research Council. McNally & Richardson.
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