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About
Jeiwon Cho is a neuroscientist whose research sits at the intersection of fear, memory, and survival behavior, with a particular focus on how the brain encodes and responds to naturalistic predatory threats. Working primarily with foraging rat models, Cho has made significant contributions to understanding the neural circuits underlying predator-induced fear — a more ecologically valid framework than traditional Pavlovian conditioning paradigms. Cho's most influential work, "Alterations of Hippocampal Place Cells in Foraging Rats Facing a 'Predatory' Threat" (2015, 70 citations), revealed how hippocampal spatial coding is dynamically disrupted under real-world threat conditions. Building on this, her 2018 study (63 citations) demonstrated dynamic information exchange between the prelimbic cortex and lateral amygdala during predatory encounters, advancing understanding of how fear circuits operate during active, goal-directed behavior. More recently, Cho's research has expanded to include the periaqueductal gray's role in activating antipredatory amygdala responses, and the concept of "fearful-place" coding across the amygdala-hippocampal network. Collectively, her work challenges laboratory-bound fear models and provides a richer, evolutionarily grounded picture of how the brain detects and responds to genuine danger.
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