Publications
M. J. SANDERS, Post-training and pre-training chronic stressors have dramatically different effects on Pavlovian fear in mice. Program No. 582.8. 2009 Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience.
Sanders, M.J., Toppen, J. (May 2009). Chronic Restraint and Variable Stress Differentially Enhance Fear in Mice. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychology Association.
Sanders, M.J., Nielson, K.A., English, S., & Meltzer, M. (2008, December). Of aged mice and aged men: Translational research on cognitive changes with aging. Poster session presented at the Annual Forward Thinking Poster Session and Colloquy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
M. J. SANDERS, J. TOPPEN, D. R. ZIEGLER, W. E. CULLINAN (2008). Sex determines the differential effects of chronic restraint and chronic variable stress on fear conditioning and Fos activation in mice. 489.13. 2008 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2008. Online.
Blaeser, F., Sanders, M.J., Truong, N., Ko, S., Wu, L.J., Wozniak, D.F., Fanselow, M.S., Zhuo, M., Chatila, T.A. (2006). Long term memory deficits in pavlovian fear conditioning in CaMKK-alpha deficient mice. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 23, 9105-9115.
Taylor, A., Rahman, S., Tio, D., Sanders, M.J., Bando, J., Truong, A., Prolo, P. (2006). Lasting neuro-endocrine-immune effects of traumatic brain injury in rats. Journal of Neurotrauma, 23, 1802-1813.
Wiltgen, B.J., Sanders, M.J., Anagnostaras, S.G., Sage, J.R., Fanselow, M.S. (2006). Context fear learning in the absence of the hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 5484-5491.
Sanders, M.J., Kieffer, B.L., Fanselow, M.S. (2005). Deletion of the mu opioid receptor results in impaired acquisition of Pavlovian context fear. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 84, 33-41.
Wiltgen, B.J., Sanders, M.J., Ferguson, C., Homanics, G.E., Fanselow M.S. (2005). Trace fear conditioning is enhanced in mice lacking the delta subunit of the GABAA receptor. Learning and Memory, 12, 327-333.
Walwyn, W., Maidment, N.T., Sanders, M.J., Evans, C.J., Kieffer, B.L., Hales T.G. (2005). Induction of delta opioid receptor function by up-regulation of membrane receptors in mouse primary afferent neurons. Molecular Pharmacology, 68, 1688-1698.
Sanders, M.J., Fanselow, M.S. (2003). Pre-training prevents context fear conditioning deficits produced by hippocampal NMDA receptor blockade. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 80, 123-129.
Sanders, M.J., Dietrich, W.D., Green, E.J. (2001). Behavioral, electrophysiological, and histopathological consequences of mild fluid-percussion injury in the rat. Brain Research, 904, 141-144.
Wiltgen, B.J., Behne, N.S., Sanders, M.J., Fanselow, M.S. (2001). Sex differences, context pre-exposure and the immediate shock deficit in pavlovian context conditioning with mice. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, 26-32.
Sanders, M.J., Sick, T.J., Perez-Pinzon, M.A., Dietrich, W.D., Green, E.J. (2000). Chronic failure in the maintenance of long-term potentiation following fluid percussion injury in the rat. Brain Research, 861, 69-76.
Sanders, M.J., Dietrich, W.D., Green, E.J. (1999). Cognitive function following traumatic brain injury: Effects of injury severity and recovery period in a parasagittal fluid percussive injury model. Journal of Neurotrauma, 16, 915-925.
Kao, K., Sanders, M.J., Green, E.J. (1997). Physiological evidence for hippocampal disinhibition resulting from activation of the median raphe. Brain Research, 752, 90-98.
Chapters
Sanders, M.J., & Fanselow, M.S. (2006). Behavioral neuroscience of pavlovian fear conditioning. In M.J. Anderson (Ed.), Tasks and techniques: A sampling of the methodologies for the investigation of animal learning, behavior and cognition. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Invited Review
Sanders, M.J., Wiltgen, B.W., Fanselow, M.S. (2003). The place of the hippocampus in fear conditioning. European Journal of Pharmacology, 463, 217-223.
