June-Seek Choi
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About
June-Seek Choi is a neuroscientist whose research sits at the intersection of fear learning, defensive behavior, and threat processing. His work focuses on understanding how the brain orchestrates responses to danger, with particular emphasis on naturalistic threat paradigms that move beyond traditional laboratory freezing models to capture the full repertoire of defensive behavior, including active flight responses. Among his notable contributions, Choi has investigated how sensory and motivational states shape both immediate and delayed defensive reactions, earning 10 citations for this foundational work. His research has illuminated critical sex differences in fear expression, demonstrating that female rats display estrous-cycle-dependent flight responses under naturalistic threat conditions — a finding with significant implications for understanding anxiety disorders across sexes. He has also identified a key neural mechanism involving calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) neurons in the parabrachial nucleus, revealing their role in modulating active defensive behavior and functioning as a general alarm system in the brain. Choi's more recent work spans robotics-based behavioral modeling and prefrontal cortex population coding during foraging, reflecting a broad commitment to ecologically valid neuroscience. His growing citation record signals an emerging influence in behavioral and systems neuroscience.
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