Manuscripts and Publications

Manuscripts and Preprints

  1. Miranda-Barrientos J, Adirahu S, Rehg J, Totty MS, Hallock H, Li Y, Carr G, and Martinowich K. (2025). Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test. (under review).


  2. Mourao F, Totty MS, Tuna T, and Maren S. (2025). Hippocampal-prelimbic coupling during context-dependent exintction retrieval in rats.. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.03.652056.


  3. Tucker A, Eisdorfer JT, Thackray J, Vo K, Thomas H, Tandon A, Moses J, Singletary B, Gillespie T, Smith A, Pauken A, Nadella S, Pitonak M, Letchuman S, Jang J, Totty MS, Jalufka FL, Aceves M, Adler AF, Maren S, Blackmon H, McCreedy DA, Abraira V, Dulin J (2025). Functional synaptic connectivity of engrafted spinal cord neurons with locomotor circuitry in the injured spinal cord. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.05.644402.


  4. Tuna T#, Totty MS#, Badarnee M, Mourao M, Peters S, Milad M (2025). Associative coding of conditioned fear in the thalamic reuniens in rodents and humans. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.18.643915.


  5. Totty MS#, Cervera-Juanes#, R., Bach, S.V.#, Ben Ameur, L., Valentine, M.R., Simons, E., Romac, M.D., Trinh, H., Henderson, K., Del Rosario, I., et al. Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.18.618721.

Published

  1. Totty MS, Hicks S, and Guo B (2025). SpotSweeper: spatially-aware quality control for spatial transcriptomics. Nature Methods. DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02713-3.


  2. Liu J, Totty MS , Bayer H, Maren S (2025). Integrating aversive memories in the basolateral amygdala. Biological Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.03.019.

  3. Totty MS, Tuna T, Ramanathan K, Jin J, Peters S*, and Maren S (2023). Thalamic nucleus reuniens coordinates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony to suppress extinguished fear. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42315-1.


  4. Totty MS and Maren S (2022). Neural oscillations in Aversively Motivated Behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.936036.

  5. Binette AN#, Totty MS#, Maren S (2022). Sex differences in the immediate extinction deficit and renewal of extinguished fear in rats. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264797.

  6. Liu J#, Totty MS#, Melissari L, Bayer H, Maren S (2022). Convergent coding of recent and remote fear memory in the basolateral amygdala. Biological Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.12.018.

  7. Totty MS, Warren N, Huddleston I*, Ramanathan K, Ressler R, Oleksiak C, Maren S (2021). Behavioral and brain mechanisms mediating conditioned flight behavior in rats. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87559-3.

  8. Giustino TF, Ramanathan KR, Totty MS, Miles OM, and Maren S (2020). Locus coeruleus norepinephrine drives stress-induced increases in basolateral amygdala firing and impairs extinction learning. Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1092-19.2019.

  9. Totty MS, Payne M, Maren S (2019). Event boundaries do not cause the immediate extinction deficit after Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46010-4.

  10. Totty MS, Chesney LA, Geist PA, Datta S (2017). Sleep-dependent oscillatory synchronization: a role in fear memory consolidation. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00049.

  11. Totty MS and Wade E (2017). Muscle Activation and Inertial Motion Data for Non-Invasive Classification of Activities of Daily Living. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2017.2738440.