In prep or under review

Meyer H. Safety conditioning during adolescence facilitates fear regulation in adulthood in mice. Submitted May 2025.

Blocker B°, Jain R°, Burnell H°, Meyer H. The impact of fear cue and context exposure on subsequent fear extinction. In preparation, target submission June 2025.

Meyer H, Khotala P, Gerhard D, Lee, F. Bioavailability of brain-derived neurotrophic factor influences fear and safety learning and in age specific manner. In preparation, target submission June 2025.

Research

Magalhães, G., Blocker, B., Burnell, H., Subedi, S., & Meyer, H. (2025). Age and sex independently influence safety learning in mice. Behavioural brain research, 487, 115594. read

Burnell, H. G., Blocker, B. R. J., & Meyer, H. C. (2025). Environmental Enrichment Has Age- and Sex-Specific Effects on Fear Regulation in Mice. Developmental psychobiology, 67(2), e70038. read

Ávila-Gómez, P., Shingai, Y., Dash, S., Liu, C., Callegari, K., Meyer, H., Khodarkovskaya, A., Aburakawa, D., Uchida, H., Faraco, G., Garcia-Bonilla, L., Anrather, J., Lee, F. S., Iadecola, C., & Sanchez, T. (2024). Molecular and Functional Alterations in the Cerebral Microvasculature in an Optimized Mouse Model of Sepsis-Associated Cognitive Dysfunction. eNeuro, 11(9), ENEURO.0426-23.2024. read

Meyer, H.C. & Lee, F.S. (2023). Intermixed safety cues facilitate extinction retention in adult and adolescent mice. Physiology & Behavior, 271, 114336. read

Gerhard, D.M., Tse, N., Lee, F.S., & Meyer, H.C. (2023). Developmental age and FAAH genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice. Developmental Psychobiology, 65, e22409. read

Gerhard, D.M. & Meyer, H.C. (2021). Extinction trial spacing across days differentially impacts fear regulation in adult and adolescent male mice. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Special Issue in memory of David Bucci, 186, 107543. read

Meyer, H. C.*, Gerhard, D. M.*, Amelio, P. A., & Lee, F. S. (2021). Pre-adolescent stress disrupts adult, but not adolescent, safety learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 400, 113005. *Co-first authorship. read

Meyer, H. C.*, Odriozola, P.*, Cohodes, E. M., Mandell, J. D., Li, A., Yang, R., ... & Lee, F. S.**, & Gee, D. G.** (2019). Ventral hippocampus interacts with prelimbic cortex during inhibition of threat response via learned safety in both mice and humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(52), 26970-26979. *Co-first authorship, **Co-senior authorship. read

Chu, C., Murdock, M. H., Jing, D., Won, T. H., Chung, H., Kressel, A. M., ... & Artis, D. (2019). The microbiota regulate neuronal function and fear extinction learning. Nature, 574(7779), 543-548. read

Giza, J. I., Kim, J., Meyer, H. C., Anastasia, A., Dincheva, I., Zheng, C. I., ... & Lee, F. S. (2018). The BDNF Val66Met prodomain disassembles dendritic spines altering fear extinction circuitry and behavior. Neuron, 99(1), 163-178. read

DeAngeli, N. E., Miller, S. B., Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2017). Increased sign‐tracking behavior in adolescent rats. Developmental psychobiology, 59(7), 840-847. read

Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2017). Negative occasion setting in juvenile rats. Behavioural processes, 137, 33-39. read

Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2016). Age differences in appetitive Pavlovian conditioning and extinction in rats. Physiology & behavior, 167, 354-362. read

Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2016). Imbalanced activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens impairs behavioral inhibition. Current biology, 26(20), 2834-2839. read

Meyer, H. C., Chodakewitz, M. I., & Bucci, D. J. (2016). Nicotine administration enhances negative occasion setting in adolescent rats. Behavioural brain research, 302, 69-72. read

Meyer, H. C., Putney, R. B., & Bucci, D. J. (2015). Inhibitory learning is modulated by nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Neuropharmacology, 89, 360-367. read

Todd, T. P., Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2015). Contribution of the retrosplenial cortex to temporal discrimination learning. Hippocampus, 25(2), 137-141. read

Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2014). The contribution of medial prefrontal cortical regions to conditioned inhibition. Behavioral neuroscience, 128(6), 644. read

Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2014). The ontogeny of learned inhibition. Learning & Memory, 21(3), 143-152. read

Reviews

Opendak, M., Meyer, H., Callaghan, B. L., Abramson, L., John, S. R., Bath, K., Lee, F., Tottenham, N., & Sullivan, R. (2025). Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration. Translational psychiatry, 15(1), 53. read

Casey, B. J., Lin, Y. C., & Meyer, H. C. (2025). Examining threat responses through a developmental lens. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 35(1), 19–33. read

Benito, K., Pittig, A., Abramowitz, J., Arch, J. J., Chavira, D., de Kleine, R., De Nadai, A. S., Hermans, D., Hofmann, S. G., Hoyer, J., Huppert, J. D., Kircanski, K., McEvoy, P. M., Meyer, H., Monfils, M.-H., Papini, S., Rief, W., Rosenfield, D., Storch, E. A., … Smits, J. A. J. (2024). Mechanisms of Change in Exposure Therapy for Anxiety and Related Disorders: A Research Agenda. Clinical Psychological Science, eLocator21677026241240727. read

Meyer, H.C.*, Fields, A.*, Vannucci, A., Gerhard, D.M., Bloom, P.A., Heleniak, C., ... & Lee, F.S. The Added Value of Crosstalk Between Developmental Circuit Neuroscience and Clinical Practice to Inform the Treatment of Adolescent Anxiety. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 3, 169-178. *Co-first authorship read

Meyer, H., Sangha, S., Radley, J., LaLumiere, R., & Baratta, M. (2021). Environmental Certainty Influences the Neural Systems Regulating Responses to Threat and Stress. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 1037-1055. read

Gerhard, D. M., Meyer, H. C., & Lee, F. S. (2021). An adolescent sensitive period for threat responding: impacts of stress and sex. Biological psychiatry, 89(7), 651-658. read

Cohen, A. O., & Meyer, H. C. (2020). Ventral Hippocampus Projections to Prelimbic Cortex Support Contextual Fear Memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(44), 8410-8412. read

Meyer, H. C., & Lee, F. S. (2019). Translating developmental neuroscience to understand risk for psychiatric disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 176(3), 179-185. read

Callaghan, B., Meyer, H., Opendak, M., Van Tieghem, M., Harmon, C., Li, A., ... & Tottenham, N. (2019). Using a developmental ecology framework to align fear neurobiology across species. Annual review of clinical psychology, 15, 345-369. read

Gee, D. G., Bath, K. G., Johnson, C. M., Meyer, H. C., Murty, V. P., van den Bos, W., & Hartley, C. A. (2018). Neurocognitive development of motivated behavior: Dynamic changes across childhood and adolescence. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(44), 9433-9445. read

Meyer, H. C., Lee, F. S., & Gee, D. G. (2018). The role of the endocannabinoid system and genetic variation in adolescent brain development. Neuropsychopharmacology, 43(1), 21-33. read

Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2017). Setting the occasion for adolescent inhibitory control. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 143, 8-17. read

Meyer, H. C., & Bucci, D. J. (2016). Neural and behavioral mechanisms of proactive and reactive inhibition. Learning & Memory, 23(10), 504-514. read

Chapters & Media

Casey BJ, Meyer H. (2024). Adolescent Anxiety Is Hard to Treat. New Drug-Free Approaches May Help. Scientific American Magazine, 330(6), 48-53. read

Gerhard, D., Li, A., Lee, F., Meyer, H. (2024). Biological Mechanisms of Anxiety Disorders: Animal and Human Studies. In D. Charney, E. Nestler, J. Buxbaum, E. Binder, J. Gordon, & M. Picciotto (Eds.), Charney and Nestler’s Neurobiology of Mental Illness, 6th Edition. Oxford University Press.

Meyer, H. C., & Pattwell, S. S. (2020). Memory across Development, with Insights from Emotional Learning: A Nonlinear Process. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 243.