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Sanggeon Park 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 threat. His work investigates the neural circuits underlying fear learning and antipredatory responses, centering on key brain regions including the amygdala, hippocampus, and periaqueductal gray (PAG). Park's most-cited contribution, "'Fearful-Place' Coding in the Amygdala-Hippocampal Network" (2020), explores how spatially contextualized fear memories are represented across interconnected brain structures — a finding with significant implications for understanding anxiety and trauma-related disorders. Building on this, his subsequent research on the dorsal periaqueductal gray and basolateral amygdala has advanced our understanding of how the brain distinguishes between conditioned fear responses and innate reactions to naturalistic predatory threats, suggesting the dPAG-BLA circuit functions as a prediction error mechanism in fear memory formation. With nearly 20 citations accumulated across a focused body of work, Park's research is gaining meaningful traction in the behavioral neuroscience community, positioning him as an emerging voice in the study of survival circuits and the neurobiology of fear.