Ms Gemma Cockcroft

(she/her/hers)

University Position

Research Assistant

Interests

Chief Research Assistant in a unit that studies various forms of cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Key Publications

Differential Effects of the Inactivation of Anterior and Posterior Orbitofrontal Cortex on Affective Responses to Proximal and Distal Threat, and Reward Anticipation in the Common Marmoset.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab240
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 30 Mar 2022
Authors: ZM Stawicka, R Massoudi, L Oikonomidis, L McIver, K Mulvihill, SKL Quah, GJ Cockcroft, HF Clarke, NK Horst, CM Wood, AC Roberts

Glutamate Within the Marmoset Anterior Hippocampus Interacts with Area 25 to Regulate the Behavioral and Cardiovascular Correlates of High-Trait Anxiety.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2451-18.2018
Journal: J Neurosci
E-pub date: 17 Apr 2019
Authors: JL Zeredo, SKL Quah, CU Wallis, L Alexander, GJ Cockcroft, AM Santangelo, J Xia, Y Shiba, JW Dalley, RN Cardinal, AC Roberts, HF Clarke

Publications

Differential Contribution of Anterior and Posterior Midcingulate Subregions to Distal and Proximal Threat Reactivity in Marmosets.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab121
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 26 Aug 2021
Authors: SS Rahman, K Mulvihill, CM Wood, SKL Quah, NK Horst, HF Clarke, GJ Cockcroft, AM Santangelo, AC Roberts

Hippocampal Interaction With Area 25, but not Area 32, Regulates Marmoset Approach-Avoidance Behavior.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz015
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 17 Dec 2019
Authors: CU Wallis, GJ Cockcroft, RN Cardinal, AC Roberts, HF Clarke

Fractionating Blunted Reward Processing Characteristic of Anhedonia by Over-Activating Primate Subgenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.11.021
Journal: Neuron
E-pub date: 16 Jan 2019
Authors: L Alexander, PLR Gaskin, SJ Sawiak, TD Fryer, YT Hong, GJ Cockcroft, HF Clarke, AC Roberts

Converging Prefronto-Insula-Amygdala Pathways in Negative Emotion Regulation in Marmoset Monkeys.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.06.016
Journal: Biol Psychiatry
E-pub date: 15 Dec 2017
Authors: Y Shiba, L Oikonomidis, S Sawiak, TD Fryer, YT Hong, G Cockcroft, AM Santangelo, AC Roberts

Novel Primate Model of Serotonin Transporter Genetic Polymorphisms Associated with Gene Expression, Anxiety and Sensitivity to Antidepressants.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2016.41
Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
E-pub date: 31 Aug 2016
Authors: AM Santangelo, M Ito, Y Shiba, HF Clarke, EH Schut, G Cockcroft, AC Ferguson-Smith, AC Roberts

Role of Central Serotonin in Anticipation of Rewarding and Punishing Outcomes: Effects of Selective Amygdala or Orbitofrontal 5-HT Depletion.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu102
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 1 Sep 2015
Authors: R Rygula, HF Clarke, RN Cardinal, GJ Cockcroft, J Xia, JW Dalley, TW Robbins, AC Roberts

Serotonergic, brain volume and attentional correlates of trait anxiety in primates.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2014.324
Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
E-pub date: 1 May 2015
Authors: Y Mikheenko, Y Shiba, S Sawiak, K Braesicke, G Cockcroft, H Clarke, AC Roberts

Orbitofrontal dopamine depletion upregulates caudate dopamine and alters behavior via changes in reinforcement sensitivity.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0718-14.2014
Journal: J Neurosci
E-pub date: 28 May 2014
Authors: HF Clarke, RN Cardinal, R Rygula, YT Hong, TD Fryer, SJ Sawiak, V Ferrari, G Cockcroft, FI Aigbirhio, TW Robbins, AC Roberts