61207-Sangha, Susan

Susan Sangha, PhD

Associate Professor Of Psychiatry

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Bio

Susan Sangha, PhD, received her bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia and her doctoral degree from the University of Calgary. She completed postdoctoral training at the Universität Münster in Germany and the Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center, University of California at San Francisco. She joined the faculty of Purdue University as an assistant professor where she rose to associate professor in Psychological Sciences. Dr. Sangha joined Indiana University School of Medicine in January 2022. Her research focuses on the neural circuits for emotion regulation, using a stimulus discrimination task she developed in animal models to assess how safety cues can regulate fear and reward behaviors.

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Key Publications

Sangha S, Fitzgerald JM (2024). Translational Approaches to the Neurobiological Study of Conditional Discrimination and Inhibition: Implications for Psychiatric Disease. Behavioral Neuroscience, Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000594.
Krueger JN, Patel NN, Shim K, Ng K, Sangha S (2024). Conditioned inhibition of fear and reward in male and female rats. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory 208: 107881.  
Ng K, Pollock M, Escobedo A, Bachman B, Miyazaki N, Bartlett EL, Sangha S (2024). Suppressing fear in the presence of a safety cue requires infralimbic cortical signaling to central amygdala. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49: 359-367.
Fitzgerald J, Webb EK, Sangha S (2023). Psychological and Physiological Correlates of Stimulus Discrimination in Adults. Psychophysiology, e14327.
Ng K, Sangha S (2023). Encoding of conditioned inhibitors of fear in the infralimbic cortex. Cerebral Cortex 33: 5658-5670
Hackleman A, Ibrahim M, Shim K, Sangha S (2023). Interaction of stress and alcohol on discriminating fear from safety and reward in male and female rats.  Psychopharmacology 240: 609-621

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