Neuronal circuits of associative learning

Selected publications

• Prefrontal circuits encode both general danger and specific threat representations
  Mario Martin-Fernandez, Ana Paula Menegolla, Guillem Lopez-Fernandez, Nanci Winke, Daniel Jercog, Ha-Rang Kim, Delphine Girard, Cyril Dejean, Cyril Herry.
  Nat Neurosci. 2023-10-30.
  DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01472-8
• Changes of Neuronal Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex Related to the Expression and Extinction of Conditioned Fear Responses
  Cyril Herry, René Garcia.
  Prefrontal Cortex: From Synaptic Plasticity to Cognition. . : 131-151.
  DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-7949-4_6
• Dissociation of fear initiation and maintenance by breathing-driven prefrontal oscillations
  Sophie Bagur, Julie M. Lefort, Marie M. Lacroix, Gaëtan de Lavilléon, Cyril Herry, Clara Billand, Hélène Geoffroy, Karim Benchenane.
  . 2018-11-12.
  DOI: 10.1101/468264
• Neuronal coding mechanisms mediating fear behavior
  Robert R Rozeske, Cyril Herry.
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2018-10-01. 52 : 60-64.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.04.017
• Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray-Projecting Neurons Mediate Context Fear Discrimination
  Robert R. Rozeske, Daniel Jercog, Nikolaos Karalis, Fabrice Chaudun, Suzana Khoder, Delphine Girard, Nânci Winke, Cyril Herry.
  Neuron. 2018-02-01. 97 (4) : 898-910.e6.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.044
• Protocols to Study Declarative Memory Formation in Mice and Humans: Optogenetics and Translational Behavioral Approaches
  Azza Sellami, Alice Abed, Laurent Brayda-Bruno, Nicole Etchamendy, Stéphane Valério, Marie Oulé, Laura Pantaléon, Valérie Lamothe, Mylène Potier, Katy Bernard, Maritza Jabourian, Cyril Herry, Nicole Mons, Aline Marighetto.
  BIO-PROTOCOL. 2018-01-01. 8 (12)
  DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.2888
• Temporal binding function of dorsal CA1 is critical for declarative memory formation
  Azza Sellami, Alice Shaam Al Abed, Laurent Brayda-Bruno, Nicole Etchamendy, Stéphane Valério, Marie Oulé, Laura Pantaléon, Valérie Lamothe, Mylène Potier, Katy Bernard, Maritza Jabourian, Cyril Herry, Nicole Mons, Pier-Vincenzo Piazza, Howard Eichenbaum, Aline Marighetto.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2017-09-05. 114 (38) : 10262-10267.
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619657114
• Facilitation of Contextual Fear Extinction by Orexin-1 Receptor Antagonism Is Associated with the Activation of Specific Amygdala Cell Subpopulations.
  África Flores, Cyril Herry, Rafael Maldonado, Fernando Berrendero.
  International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2017-04-27. 20 (8) : 654-659.
  DOI: 10.1093/ijnp/pyx029
• Blood on the Tracks: Two Pathways for Predation
  Robert R. Rozeske, Cyril Herry.
  Cell. 2017-01-01. 168 (1-2) : 17-19.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.042
• Prefrontal neuronal assemblies temporally control fear behaviour
  Cyril Dejean, Julien Courtin, Nikolaos Karalis, Fabrice Chaudun, Hélène Wurtz, Thomas C. M. Bienvenu, Cyril Herry.
  Nature. 2016-07-01. 535 (7612) : 420-424.
  DOI: 10.1038/nature18630
• Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour
  Philip Tovote, Maria Soledad Esposito, Paolo Botta, Fabrice Chaudun, Jonathan P. Fadok, Milica Markovic, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Charu Ramakrishnan, Lief Fenno, Karl Deisseroth, Cyril Herry, Silvia Arber, Andreas Lüthi.
  Nature. 2016-06-01. 534 (7606) : 206-212.
  DOI: 10.1038/nature17996
• Preventing long-lasting fear recovery using bilateral alternating sensory stimulation: A translational study.
  H. Wurtz, M. El-Khoury-Malhame, F.H. Wilhelm, T. Michael, E.M. Beetz, J. Roques, E. Reynaud, J. Courtin, S. Khalfa, C. Herry.
  Neuroscience. 2016-05-01. 321 : 222-235.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.06.012
• 4-Hz oscillations synchronize prefrontal–amygdala circuits during fear behavior
  Nikolaos Karalis, Cyril Dejean, Fabrice Chaudun, Suzana Khoder, Robert R Rozeske, Hélène Wurtz, Sophie Bagur, Karim Benchenane, Anton Sirota, Julien Courtin, Cyril Herry.
  Nat Neurosci. 2016-02-15. 19 (4) : 605-612.
  DOI: 10.1038/nn.4251
• Neuronal Circuits for Fear Expression and Recovery: Recent Advances and Potential Therapeutic Strategies
  Dejean C, Courtin J, Rozeske RR, Bonnet MC, Dousset V, Michelet T, Herry C..
  Biol Psychiatry. 2015-09-01. 78 (5) : 298-306.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.03.017
• Encoding of fear learning and memory in distributed neuronal circuits
  Cyril Herry, Joshua P Johansen.
  Nat Neurosci. 2014-11-21. 17 (12) : 1644-1654.
  DOI: 10.1038/nn.3869
• Comportement de peur : rôle des interneurones exprimant la parvalbumine du cortex préfrontal médian
  Julien Courtin, Cyril Dejean, Cyril Herry.
  Med Sci (Paris). 2014-11-01. 30 (11) : 943-945.
  DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20143011004
• Prefrontal neuronal circuits of contextual fear conditioning.
  R. R. Rozeske, S. Valerio, F. Chaudun, C. Herry.
  Genes, Brain and Behavior. 2014-10-27. 14 (1) : 22-36.
  DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12181
• Persistence of amygdala gamma oscillations during extinction learning predicts spontaneous fear recovery.
  J. Courtin, N. Karalis, C. Gonzalez-Campo, H. Wurtz, C. Herry.
  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2014-09-01. 113 : 82-89.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.09.015
• Amygdala interneuron subtypes control fear learning through disinhibition
  Steffen B. E. Wolff, Jan Gründemann, Philip Tovote, Sabine Krabbe, Gilad A. Jacobson, Christian Müller, Cyril Herry, Ingrid Ehrlich, Rainer W. Friedrich, Johannes J. Letzkus, Andreas Lüthi.
  Nature. 2014-05-01. 509 (7501) : 453-458.
  DOI: 10.1038/nature13258
• Frequency of Cocaine Self-Administration Influences Drug Seeking in the Rat: Optogenetic Evidence for a Role of the Prelimbic Cortex
  Elena Martín-García, Julien Courtin, Prisca Renault, Jean- François Fiancette, Hélène Wurtz, Amélie Simonnet, Florian Levet, Cyril Herry, Véronique Deroche-Gamonet.
  Neuropsychopharmacol. 2014-03-17. 39 (10) : 2317-2330.
  DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.66
• Long-Range Connectivity Defines Behavioral Specificity of Amygdala Neurons
  Verena Senn, Steffen B.E. Wolff, Cyril Herry, François Grenier, Ingrid Ehrlich, Jan Gründemann, Jonathan P. Fadok, Christian Müller, Johannes J. Letzkus, Andreas Lüthi.
  Neuron. 2014-01-01. 81 (2) : 428-437.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.11.006
• Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons shape neuronal activity to drive fear expression
  Julien Courtin, Fabrice Chaudun, Robert R. Rozeske, Nikolaos Karalis, Cecilia Gonzalez-Campo, Hélène Wurtz, Azzedine Abdi, Jerome Baufreton, Thomas C. M. Bienvenu, Cyril Herry.
  Nature. 2013-11-20. 505 (7481) : 92-96.
  DOI: 10.1038/nature12755
• Medial prefrontal cortex neuronal circuits in fear behavior.
  J. Courtin, T.C.M. Bienvenu, E.Ö. Einarsson, C. Herry.
  Neuroscience. 2013-06-01. 240 : 219-242.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.03.001
• A disinhibitory microcircuit for associative fear learning in the auditory cortex
  Johannes J. Letzkus, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Elisabeth M. M. Meyer, Philip Tovote, Julien Courtin, Cyril Herry, Andreas Lüthi.
  Nature. 2011-12-01. 480 (7377) : 331-335.
  DOI: 10.1038/nature10674
• Nouveaux circuits neuronaux amygdaliens contrôlant le comportement de peur
  Stéphane Ciocchi, Andreas Lüthi, Cyril Herry.
  Med Sci (Paris). 2011-05-01. 27 (5) : 455-457.
  DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2011275003
• Context-Dependent Encoding of Fear and Extinction Memories in a Large-Scale Network Model of the Basal Amygdala
  Ioannis Vlachos, Cyril Herry, Andreas Lüthi, Ad Aertsen, Arvind Kumar.
  PLoS Comput Biol. 2011-03-17. 7 (3) : e1001104.
  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001104
• Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits
  Stephane Ciocchi, Cyril Herry, François Grenier, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Johannes J. Letzkus, Ioannis Vlachos, Ingrid Ehrlich, Rolf Sprengel, Karl Deisseroth, Michael B. Stadler, Christian Müller, Andreas Lüthi.
  Nature. 2010-11-11. 468 (7321) : 277-282.
  DOI: 10.1038/nature09559
• Erasing fear memories with extinction training.
  G. J. Quirk, D. Pare, R. Richardson, C. Herry, M. H. Monfils, D. Schiller, A. Vicentic.
  Journal of Neuroscience. 2010-11-10. 30 (45) : 14993-14997.
  DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4268-10.2010
• Impaired fear extinction in mice lacking protease nexin-1
  Marita Meins, Cyril Herry, Christian Müller, Stéphane Ciocchi, Eliza Moreno, Andreas Lüthi, Denis Monard.
  European Journal of Neuroscience. 2010-05-31. 31 (11) : 2033-2042.
  DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07221.x
• Neuronal circuits of fear extinction
  Cyril Herry, Francesco Ferraguti, Nicolas Singewald, Johannes J. Letzkus, Ingrid Ehrlich, Andreas Lüthi.
  European Journal of Neuroscience. 2010-02-01. 31 (4) : 599-612.
  DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07101.x
• Amygdalar neuronal circuits implicated in fear conditioning and extinction learning
  Cyril Herry.
  Neuroscience Research. 2010-01-01. 68 : e19.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2010.07.318
• Perineuronal Nets Protect Fear Memories from Erasure
  N. Gogolla, P. Caroni, A. Luthi, C. Herry.
  Science. 2009-09-03. 325 (5945) : 1258-1261.
  DOI: 10.1126/science.1174146
• Amygdala Inhibitory Circuits and the Control of Fear Memory
  Ingrid Ehrlich, Yann Humeau, François Grenier, Stephane Ciocchi, Cyril Herry, Andreas Lüthi.
  Neuron. 2009-06-01. 62 (6) : 757-771.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.05.026
• Switching on and off fear by distinct neuronal circuits
  Cyril Herry, Stephane Ciocchi, Verena Senn, Lynda Demmou, Christian Müller, Andreas Lüthi.
  Nature. 2008-07-01. 454 (7204) : 600-606.
  DOI: 10.1038/nature07166
• Biphasic ERK1/2 activation in both the hippocampus and amygdala may reveal a system consolidation of contextual fear memory.
  P TRIFILIEFF, L CALANDREAU, C HERRY, N MONS, J MICHEAU.
  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2007-11-01. 88 (4) : 424-434.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.05.004
• Processing of temporal unpredictability in human and animal amygdala.
  C. Herry, D. R. Bach, F. Esposito, F. Di Salle, W. J. Perrig, K. Scheffler, A. Luthi, E. Seifritz.
  Journal of Neuroscience. 2007-05-30. 27 (22) : 5958-5966.
  DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5218-06.2007
• Generalization of amygdala LTP and conditioned fear in the absence of presynaptic inhibition
  Hamdy Shaban, Yann Humeau, Cyril Herry, Guillaume Cassasus, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Stephane Ciocchi, Samuel Barbieri, Herman van der Putten, Klemens Kaupmann, Bernhard Bettler, Andreas Lüthi.
  Nat Neurosci. 2006-07-02. 9 (8) : 1028-1035.
  DOI: 10.1038/nn1732
• Extinction of auditory fear conditioning requires MAPK/ERK activation in the basolateral amygdala
  Cyril Herry, Pierre Trifilieff, Jacques Micheau, Andreas Lüthi, Nicole Mons.
  European Journal of Neuroscience. 2006-07-01. 24 (1) : 261-269.
  DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04893.x
• Foreground contextual fear memory consolidation requires two independent phases of hippocampal ERK/CREB activation.
  P. Trifilieff.
  Learning & Memory. 2006-05-01. 13 (3) : 349-358.
  DOI: 10.1101/lm.80206
• Dendritic Spine Heterogeneity Determines Afferent-Specific Hebbian Plasticity in the Amygdala
  Yann Humeau, Cyril Herry, Nicola Kemp, Hamdy Shaban, Elodie Fourcaudot, Stephanie Bissière, Andreas Lüthi.
  Neuron. 2005-01-01. 45 (1) : 119-131.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.12.019
• Resistance to extinction is associated with impaired immediate early gene induction in medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala
  Cyril Herry, Nicole Mons.
  Eur J Neurosci. 2004-08-01. 20 (3) : 781-790.
  DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03542.x
• Behavioral and paired-pulse facilitation analyses of long-lasting depression at excitatory synapses in the medial prefrontal cortex in mice
  Cyril Herry, René Garcia.
  Behavioural Brain Research. 2003-11-01. 146 (1-2) : 89-96.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.09.017
• Prefrontal Cortex Long-Term Potentiation, But Not Long-Term Depression, Is Associated with the Maintenance of Extinction of Learned Fear in Mice
  Cyril Herry, René Garcia.
  J. Neurosci.. 2002-01-15. 22 (2) : 577-583.
  DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-02-00577.2002
• Plasticity in the Mediodorsal Thalamo-Prefrontal Cortical Transmission in Behaving Mice
  Cyril Herry, Rose-Marie Vouimba, René Garcia.
  Journal of Neurophysiology. 1999-11-01. 82 (5) : 2827-2832.
  DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.5.2827