Barry Setlow, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 

Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235

Office: 275 Psychology Building
email: bsetlow@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-2507
Fax: (979) 845-4727



Research Interests

  • Role of limbic-striatal systems in associative learning
  • Neural correlates of goal-directed behavior in limbic-striatal systems
  • Roles of associative learning in drug addiction
  • Behavioral studies employing lesion and intra-cerebral drug microinjection techniques
  • Electrophysiological studies in behaving animals

Education

Ph.D., Department of Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, 1998

Recent Publications

Setlow, B. (1996). Multiple memory systems and cortico-striatal anatomy: a new approach.  Revista Mexicana de Psicología. 13, 101-106.

Setlow, B. (1997). Georges Ungar and memory transfer.  The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 6, 181-192.

Setlow, B. (1997). The nucleus accumbens and learning and memory.  Journal of Neuroscience Research. 49, 515-521.

Setlow, B. & McGaugh, J. L. (1998). Sulpiride infused into the nucleus accumbens post-training impairs memory of spatial water maze training.  Behavioral Neuroscience. 112, 603-610.

Setlow, B. & McGaugh, J. L. (1999). Involvement of the posteroventral caudate-putamen in memory consolidation in the Morris water maze.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 71, 240-247.

Setlow, B. & McGaugh, J. L. (1999). Differential effects of immediate posttraining sulpiride microinfusions into the nucleus accumbens shell and core on Morris water maze retention. Psychobiology. 27, 248-255.

Setlow, B., Roozendaal, B., & McGaugh, J. L. (2000). Involvement of a basolateral amygdala complex - nucleus accumbens pathway in glucocorticoid-induced modulation of memory storage.  European Journal of Neuroscience. 12, 367-375.

Setlow, B. & McGaugh, J. L. (2000). D2 dopamine receptor blockade immediately post-training enhances retention in spatial and cued versions of the water maze.  Learning and Memory.  7, 187-191.

Cahill, L., Vazdarjanova, A. I., & Setlow, B. (2000). The basolateral amygdala complex is involved with, but not necessary for, rapid acquisition of Pavlovian fear conditioning. European Journal of Neuroscience. 12, 3044-3050.

Cahill, L., Pham, C., & Setlow, B. (2000). Impaired memory consolidation in rats produced with b-adrenergic blockade.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 74, 259-266.

Roozendaal, B., de Quervain, D. J.-F., Ferry, B., Setlow, B.,  & McGaugh, J. L. (2001). Basolateral amygdala - nucleus accumbens interactions in mediating glucocorticoid effects on memory consolidation. The Journal of Neuroscience. 21, 2518-2525.

Schoenbaum, G., Garmon, J. W., & Setlow, B. (2001). A novel method for detecting licking behavior during recording of electrophysiological signals from the brain. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 106, 139-146.

Schoenbaum, G., & Setlow, B. (2001). Integrating orbitofrontal cortex into prefrontal theory: common processing themes across species and subdivisions. Learning and Memory.8, 134-147.

Guzowski, J. F., Setlow, B., Wagner, E. K., & McGaugh, J. L. (2001). Experience-dependent gene expression in the rat hippocampus following spatial learning: a comparison of the immediate-early genes Arc, c-fos, and zif268. The Journal of Neuroscience. 21, 5089-5098.

Schoenbaum, G., Setlow, B., & Gallagher, M. (2002). Orbitofrontal cortex: modeling prefrontal function in rats.  In: The Neuropsychology of Memory, 3rd Edition.  L. Squire and D. Schacter, Eds. pp. 463-477.

Setlow, B., Holland, P. C., & Gallagher, M. (2002). Disconnection of the basolateral amygdala complex and nucleus accumbens impairs appetitive Pavlovian second-order conditioned responses. Behavioral Neuroscience. 116, 267-275.

Schoenbaum, G., Nugent, S. L., Saddoris, M. P., & Setlow, B. (2002). Orbitofrontal lesions in rats impair reversal but not acquisition of go, no-go odor discriminations.Neuroreport. 13, 885-890.

Setlow, B., Gallagher, M., & Holland, P. C. (2002). The basolateral complex of the amygdala is necessary for acquisition but not expression of CS motivational value in appetitive Pavlovian second-order conditioning. European Journal of Neuroscience. 15, 1841-1853.

Petrovich, G. D., Setlow, B., Holland, P. C., & Gallagher, M. (2002). Amygdalo-hypothalamic circuit allows learned cues to override satiety and promote eating. The Journal of Neuroscience. 22, 8748-8753.

Schoenbaum, G., Setlow, B., Nugent, S. L., Saddoris, M. P., & Gallagher, M.  (2003). Lesions of orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala disrupt acquisition of odor-guided discriminations and reversals.  Learning and Memory. 10, 129-140.

Setlow, B., Schoenbaum, G., & Gallagher, M.  (2003). Neural encoding in ventral striatum during olfactory discrimination learning. Neuron. 38, 625-636.

Schoenbaum, G., Setlow, B., Saddoris, M. P., & Gallagher, M. (2003). Encoding predicted outcome and acquired value in orbitofrontal cortex during cue sampling depends upon input from basolateral amygdala. Neuron. 39, 855-867.

Schoenbaum, G., & Setlow, B. (2003). Lesions of nucleus accumbens disrupt acquisition of odor-guided discriminations and reversals. The Journal of Neuroscience. 23, 9833-9841.

Schoenbaum, G., Setlow, B., & Ramus, S. J. (2003). A systems approach to orbitofrontal cortex function: recordings in rat orbitofrontal cortex reveal interactions with different learning systems. Behavioural Brain Research. 146, 19-29.

Pickens, C. L., Saddoris, M P., Setlow, B., Gallagher, M., Holland, P. C., & Schoenbaum, G. (2003). Different roles for orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala in a reinforcer devaluation task. The Journal of Neuroscience. 23, 11078-11084.

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