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1. Divencha, I., Drysdale, A. Hartley, C.A., Johnson, D.C.*, Glatt, C., Lee, F.S., & Casey, B.J. (2015). FAAH genetic variation enhances fronto-amygdala function in mouse and human. Nature Communications 6.
2. Johnson, D.C. & Casey, B.J. (2015). Extinction during memory reconsolidation blocks recovery of fear in adolescents. Scientific Reports 5, 8863.
3. Johnson, D.C. & Casey, B.J. (2015). Easy to remember, difficult to forget: the development of fear regulation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 11, 42-55.
4. Pattwell, S., Duhoux, S., Hartley, C., Johnson, D.C., Jing, D., Elliott, M., Ruberry, E., Powers, A., Mehta, N., Yang, R., Soliman, F., Glatt, C., Casey, B.J., Ninan, I., & Lee, F.S. (2012). Altered fear learning across development in both mouse and human. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences USA 109, 16318–16323.
5. Schiller, D., Monfils, M.H., Raio, C.M., Johnson, D.C., LeDoux, J.E., & Phelps, E.A., (2010). Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms. Nature 463 (7277), 49-53.

* Co first author

       Links to PDFs of some of the above research papers will be available in the future.

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 SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

1. Johnson, D.C., Casey, B.J., Hartley, C., Powers, A. (2014). Reconsolidation update: a method for preventing the return of fear in adolescents. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA.
2. Johnson, D.C., Casey, B.J., Hartley, C., Powers, A. (2014). Reconsolidation update: a method for preventing the return of fear in adolescents. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
3. Schiller, D. Monfils, M.H., Raio CM, Johnson, D.C., LeDoux, J.E., Phelps, E.A. (2008). Retrieval prior to extinction prevents the return of fear. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Attention and Performance XXII, Stowe, VT.
4. Schiller, D. Monfils, M.H., Raio CM, Johnson, D.C., LeDoux, J.E., Phelps, E.A. (2008). Behavioral blockade of the return of fear in humans. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
5. Schiller, D., Monfils, M.H., Raio CM, Johnson, D.C., LeDoux, J.E., Phelps, E.A. (2008). Extinction training during memory reconsolidation prevents the return of fear in humans. Poster presented at the Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting, Weehawken, NJ.
6. Sharot, T., Johnson, D., Dudai, Y. Raio CM, & Phelps, E. (2008). The (near) future is bright: how emotion modulates simulation of everyday future events. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Fransisco, CA.
7. Johnson, D., Szary, J., Sharot, T., Phelps, E.A. (2007). Neural mechanisms of the optimism bias.  NYU Undergraduate Research Poster Contest.

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