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Mohammed R Milad

NYU School of Medicine
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Fear extinction as a model for translational neuroscience: ten years of progress

MR Milad, GJ Quirk - Annual review of psychology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The psychology of extinction has been studied for decades. Approximately 10 years ago,
however, there began a concerted effort to understand the neural circuits of extinction of fear …

Biological studies of post-traumatic stress disorder

RK Pitman, AM Rasmusson, KC Koenen… - nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the only major mental disorder for which a cause is
considered to be known: that is, an event that involves threat to the physical integrity of …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder: beyond segregated cortico-striatal pathways

MR Milad, SL Rauch - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects approximately 2–3% of the population and is
characterized by recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or …

Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction

MR Milad, GJ Quirk - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Conditioned fear responses to a tone previously paired with a shock diminish if the tone is
repeatedly presented without the shock, a process known as extinction. Since Pavlov it has …

Neurobiological basis of failure to recall extinction memory in posttraumatic stress disorder

MR Milad, RK Pitman, CB Ellis, AL Gold, LM Shin… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A clinical characteristic of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is
persistently elevated fear responses to stimuli associated with the traumatic event. The …

Recall of fear extinction in humans activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in concert

MR Milad, CI Wright, SP Orr, RK Pitman, GJ Quirk… - Biological …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Extinction of conditioned fear is thought to form a new safety memory that is
expressed in the context in which the extinction learning took place. Rodent studies …

Thickness of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in humans is correlated with extinction memory

MR Milad, BT Quinn, RK Pitman… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has been implicated in fear extinction [Phelps,
EA, Delgado, MR, Nearing, KI & Ledoux, JE (2004) Neuron 43, 897-905; Herry, C. & Garcia …

Deficits in conditioned fear extinction in obsessive-compulsive disorder and neurobiological changes in the fear circuit

MR Milad, SC Furtak, JL Greenberg… - JAMA …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may be characterized by impaired self-
regulation and behavioral inhibition. Elevated fear and anxiety are common characteristics …

Fear extinction in rats: implications for human brain imaging and anxiety disorders

MR Milad, SL Rauch, RK Pitman, GJ Quirk - Biological psychology, 2006 - Elsevier
Fear extinction is the decrease in conditioned fear responses that normally occurs when a
conditioned stimulus (CS) is repeatedly presented in the absence of the aversive …

The influence of gonadal hormones on conditioned fear extinction in healthy humans

MR Milad, MA Zeidan, A Contero, RK Pitman… - Neuroscience, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent rodent studies suggest that gonadal hormones influence extinction of conditioned
fear. Here we investigated sex differences in, and the influence of estradiol and …