Kevin D. Beck

Sex differences in behavioral and neurochemical profiles after chronic stress: role of housing conditions.

Effects of stress on nonassociative learning processes in male and female rats.

Chronic stress effects on memory: sex differences in performance and monoaminergic activity.

Stress interacts with peripheral cholinesterase inhibitors to cause central nervous system effects.

Leverpress escape/avoidance conditioning in rats: safety signal length and avoidance performance.

Low doses of interleukin-1beta improve the leverpress avoidance performance of Sprague-Dawley rats.

Facilitated acquisition of the classically conditioned eyeblink response in male rats after systemic IL-1beta.

Stress and cytokine effects on learning: what does sex have to do with it?

Proinflammatory cytokines differentially affect leverpress avoidance acquisition in rats.

Mild interoceptive stressors affect learning and reactivity to contextual cues: toward understanding the development of unexplained illnesses.

Stress-induced reductions of sensory reactivity in female rats depend on ovarian hormones and the application of a painful stressor.

A stress-induced anxious state in male rats: corticotropin-releasing hormone induces persistent changes in associative learning and startle reactivity.

Leverpress escape/avoidance training increases neurotrophin levels in rat brain.

Cholinergic overstimulation supports conditioned-facilitated startle but not conditioned hyperalgesia.

Interleukin-1beta as a mechanism for stress-induced startle suppression in females.

Preclinical investigation of the functional effects of memantine and memantine combined with galantamine or donepezil.

Estrus cycle stage modifies the presentation of stress-induced startle suppression in female Sprague-Dawley rats.

Brief intermittent light stimulation disrupts saccadic oculomotor control.

Stress-induced increases in avoidance responding: an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder behavior?

Facilitated acquisition of the classically conditioned eyeblink response in women taking oral contraceptives.

Evidence for sex-specific shifting of neural processes underlying learning and memory following stress.

Predator odor exposure facilitates acquisition of a leverpress avoidance response in rats.

Comparison of immunopathology and locomotor recovery in C57BL/6, BUB/BnJ, and NOD-SCID mice after contusion spinal cord injury.

Quantitative analysis of cellular inflammation after traumatic spinal cord injury: evidence for a multiphasic inflammatory response in the acute to chronic environment.

Vulnerability factors in anxiety determined through differences in active-avoidance behavior.

Deficient proactive interference of eyeblink conditioning in Wistar-Kyoto rats.

Facilitated acquisition of the classically conditioned eyeblink response in females is augmented in those taking oral contraceptives.

Classical and instrumental conditioning of eyeblink responses in Wistar-Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley rats.

Damage of GABAergic neurons in the medial septum impairs spatial working memory and extinction of active avoidance: effects on proactive interference.

Avoidance perseveration during extinction training in Wistar-Kyoto rats: an interaction of innate vulnerability and stressor intensity.

Vulnerability factors in anxiety: Strain and sex differences in the use of signals associated with non-threat during the acquisition and extinction of active-avoidance behavior.

Behaviorally inhibited temperament is associated with severity of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and faster eyeblink conditioning in veterans.

Differential effects of progesterone and medroxyprogesterone on delay eyeblink conditioning in ovariectomized rats.