Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170100392

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Impaired fear inhibition in adolescence. This project aims to test whether an imbalance in the adolescent brain impairs fear regulation. Recent evidence shows that adolescents, both rodent and human, do not effectively inhibit fear. This project will systematically isolate the role of specific neural circuits by selectively manipulating their activity in a cell type specific manner during fear inhibition in adolescent rats. Understanding neural processes that impair fear regulation during a vulnerable period of development could lead to a more complete neurobiological theory of fear regulation in adolescence, and improve treatments for anxious youth.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2017

End Date: 12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $340,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council