My research focus is on the analysis of biobehavioral emotion systems, including aggression and defense, and on the behavioral and physiological consequences of social stress. Much of this work has involved central and peripheral drug effects on defensive behaviors that serve as preclinical models of anxiety, panic, and depression. The laboratory is particularly interested in gender differences in these, in both animals and peopl

Ribeiro-Barbosa ER, Canteras NS, Cezario AF, Blanchard RJ, Blanchard DC. 2005. An alternative experimental procedure for studying predator-related defensive responses. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 29; 1255-63.

Blanchard, DC, Canteras NS, Markham CM, Pentkowski NS and Blanchard RJ. 2005. Lesions of structures showing for expression to cat presentation: Effects on responsivity to a cat, cat odor, and nonpredator threat. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 29: 1243-53.

Apfelbach R., Blanchard, DC, Blanchard RJ, Hayes RA , and McGregor, I. 2005. The effects of predator odors in mammalian prey species: A review of field and laboratory studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 29: 1123:42

Blanchard RJ, Griebel G, Farrokhi C, Markham C, Yang M, Blanchard DC. AVP V1b selective antagonist SSR149415 blocks aggressive behaviors in hamsters. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2005 Jan;80(1):189-197.

Wall PM, Blanchard RJ, Yang M, Blanchard DC. Differential effects of infralimbic vs. ventromedial orbital PFC lidocaine infusions in CD-1 mice on defensive responding in the mouse defense test battery and rat exposure test. Brain Res. 2004 Sep 10;1020(1-2):73-85.

Markham CM, Blanchard DC, Canteras NS, Cuyno CD, Blanchard RJ. Modulation of predatory odor processing following lesions to the dorsal premammillary nucleus. Neurosci Lett. 2004 Nov 30;372(1-2):22-6.

Wall PM, Blanchard RJ, Markham C, Yang M, Blanchard DC. (2004) Infralimbic D1 receptor agonist effects on spontaneous novelty exploration and anxiety-like defensive responding in CD-1 mice. Behav Brain Res. 2004 Jun 4;152(1):67-79.

Blanchard, D.C., Yang M., Hebert, M.A., and Blanchard, R.J. (2006) Defensive behaviors. In Fink,G. (Ed) Encyclopedia of Stress, 2nd edition. New York, Academic Press, p. 652-656.

Blanchard, D.C., and Blanchard, R.J. 2005 Stress and Aggressive Behaviors. In Nelson, R.Biology of Aggression, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 275-294.

Gerlai, R, Blanchard, R, and Blanchard DC. 2006 Animal models of anxiety: The ethological perspective. In Fisch, GS and Flint J (Eds.) Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience: Transgenic and Knockout Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Fisch, GS and Flint J (Eds.) Humana Press, Totowa, NJ pp 221-236.