Helmstetter Lab

Principal Investigator:

Fred J. Helmstetter, Ph.D.

Visiting Scientist:

Bo Xu Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellows:

Taekwan Lee Ph.D.

Marieke Gilmartin Ph.D.

Graduate Students:

Georgette Gafford, M.S.

Mary Lonergan, B.A.

Ryan Parsons, M.S.

Jennifer Geiger, M.S.

Doug Schultz, B.A.

Nicholas Balderston, B.A.

Timothy Jarome, B.A.

Janine Kwapis, B.A.

Chelsey Schramm, B.A.

Research Assistants

Alumni

Graduates

Dominic Cheng, Ph.D., 2005

Dissertation title: Neural correlates of response expression during fear learning: Conditioning and awareness.

Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Christine Smith, Ph.D., 2003

Dissertation title: Network analysis of human fear conditioning: Differential acquisition, extinction, and reversal.

Current position: Postdoctoral Trainee, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego

Maeng-Sik Shin, Ph.D., 2003

Dissertation title: Neuropeptide circuitry of the amygdala related to antinociception.

Current position: Assistant Professor, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

David Knight, Ph.D., 2002

Dissertation title: Event-related fMRI of neural substrates mediating human delay and trace fear conditioning.

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Patrick S. Frost-Bellgowan, Ph.D., 1997

Dissertation title: The contribution of selected population of cells within the amygdala and periaqueductal gray to learning versus performance of fear responses.

Current position: Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institutes of Health

Sheralee A. Tershner, Ph.D., 1996

Dissertation title: A systematic examination of putative neurotransmitter released in the periaqueductal gray during hypoalgesia produced by opioid stimulation of the rat amygdala.

Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Western New England College

Nancy A. Johnson, Ph.D., 1995

Dissertation title: The relationship of anxiety and nociception in humans.

Current position: Associate Professor, Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern Univ. Medical School

Former Undergraduates

Greg Gale, Ph.D.

David Bailey, Ph.D.

Julie Tetzlaff, Ph.D.

Catherine (Cook) Kaczorowski, Ph.D.

David Baruch

Brady Riedner

Rebekah Phillips

Former Visiting Scientists

Hayley Foo, Ph.D.

Dilip Das, M.D.