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Fear conditioning- and extinction-induced neuronal plasticity in the mouse amygdala [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Experience-dependent changes in behavior are mediated by long-term functional modifications in brain circuits. To study the underlying mechanisms, our lab is using classical auditory fear conditioning, a simple and robust form of associative learning. In
Ciocchi, Stéphane
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Extinction of cue-evoked drug-seeking relies on degrading hierarchical instrumental expectancies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There has long been need for a behavioural intervention that attenuates cue-evoked drug-seeking, but the optimal method remains obscure. To address this, we report three approaches to extinguish cue-evoked drug-seeking measured in a Pavlovian to ...
Rose, Abigail K.   +32 more
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Explaining the effectiveness of fear extinction through latent-cause inference

open access: yes, 2022
Acquiring fear responses to predictors of aversive outcomes is crucial for survival. At the same time, it is important to be able to modify such associations when they are maladaptive, for instance in treating anxiety and trauma-related disorders ...
Marie-H. Monfils   +3 more
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High palaeolatitude (Hodh, Mauritania) recovery of graptolite faunas after the Hirnantian (end Ordovician) extinction event [PDF]

open access: yes
Marine shales directly overlying lower Hirnantian (uppermost Ordovician) glacially related sediments in Mauritania (North-West Africa) have produced a rich graptolite fauna spanning the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in an area of high palaeolatitude.
Underwood, Charlie J.   +2 more
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Radiocarbon Chronologies and Extinction Dynamics of the Late Quaternary Mammalian Megafauna of the Taimyr Peninsula, Russian Federation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper presents 75 new radiocarbon dates based on late Quaternary mammal remains recovered from eastern Taimyr Peninsula and adjacent parts of the northern Siberian lowlands, Russian Federation, including specimens of woolly mammoth (Mammuthus ...
MacPhee, Ross D.E.,   +19 more
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Bringing Neuroscientific Data to Sustainability: Embedded Data Stewardship in CRC 1280

open access: yesBausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement
Information Management (INF) projects are essential to the establishment of infrastructures for the management of research data and metadata in Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Marlene Pacharra   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2023
Why do conservation policies fail to prevent species extinctions and die-offs in contravention of stated intentions and goals? Bringing together a range of literature, including political ecology, political theory, conservation science, communication ...
Maria Armoudian
doaj   +2 more sources

De-Extinction [PDF]

open access: yesGenes, 2018
De-extinction projects for species such as the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon have greatly stimulated public and scientific interest, producing a large body of literature and much debate. To date, there has been little consistency in descriptions of de-extinction technologies and purposes.
openaire   +2 more sources

»Hope dies – Action begins« [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
"Hope dies - action begins" - this is the motto of the new global environmental movement "Extinction Rebellion" (XR). XR wants to make us all aware of finally taking radical measures against the gigantic species extinction and climate catastrophe.
Extinction Rebellion Hannover,
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