The primary focus of my research program is to determine the contributions of different brain structures to learning, memory, and emotion. Specific aims are to: 1) understand the neural circuits involved in acquiring, storing, and retrieving memory; 2) delineate the mechanisms involved in long-term consolidation and temporally graded retrograde amnesia; and 3) determine how deficits in emotion may undermine mnemonic function. Related research projects normally involve assessing whether surgical lesions and pharmacological manipulations in rats cause anterograde and/or retrograde amnesia as well as changes in fear and anxiety in several types of behavioural paradigms