Professor
McGuinn Hall 430B
Email: michael.mcdannald@bc.edu
PSYC2285 Behavioral Neuroscience
PSYC3390 Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders
PSYC5587 Cellular Perspectives on Motivated Behavior
The McDannald lab is interested in how the brain computes threat and how threat information is used to guide behavior.
Strickland JS, McDannald MA (2022). Brainstem networks construct threat probability and prediction error from neuronal building blocks. Nature Communications 13, 6192.
Walker RA, Suthard RL, Perison TN, Sheehan NM, Dwyer CC, Lee JK, Enabulele EK, Ray MH and McDannald MA (2022). Dorsal Raphe 5-HT Neurons Utilize, But Do Not Generate, Negative Aversive Prediction Errors. eNeuro 0132-21.2022.
Ray MH, Moaddab M, and McDannald MA (2022). Threat and bidirectional valence signaling in the nucleus accumbens core. Journal of Neuroscience 42 (5) 817-833.
Moaddab M, and McDannald MA (2021). Retrorubral field is a hub for diverse threat and aversive outcome signals. Current Biology 31(10): 2099-2110.
Moaddab M, Ray MH and McDannald MA (2021). Ventral pallidum neurons dynamically signal relative threat. Communications Biology 4(1): 43.
Ray MH, Russ AN, Walker RA and McDannald MA (2020). The nucleus accumbens core is necessary to scale fear to degree of threat. Journal of Neuroscience 40(24): 4750-4760.
Walker RA, Wright KM, Jhou TC and McDannald MA (2020). The ventrolateral periaqueductal gray updates fear via positive prediction error. European Journal of Neuroscience 51(3): 866-880.