Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
F.Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Luke Johnson’s research program is the Micro Anatomy of Fear and Stress. He investigates the micro circuitry of the amygdala and its encoding of fear memory. He gained his PhD from Oxford University, UK. He did postdoctoral training at Yale and at NYU with Dr Joseph LeDoux. He is currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and a Scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS), at the Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, MD. USA.

Representative publications:

E. M. Prager, L. R. Johnson, Stress at the Synapse: Signal Transduction Mechanisms of Adrenal Steroids at Neuronal Membranes. Sci. Signal. 2, re5 (2009).

http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/2/86/re5

Johnson, LR, LeDoux, JE, Doyere, V. Hebbian Reverberations in Emotional Memory Networks (2009) Front. Neurosci. 4

http://frontiersin.org/neuroscience

Johnson LR, Hou M, Ponce-Alvarez A, Gribelyuk L, Alphs H, Albert Jr L, Brown BL, LeDoux J and Doyere V (2008) A recurrent network in the lateral amygdala: a mechanism for coincidence detection. Front. Neural Circuits 2 :3. doi:10.3389/neuro.04.003.2008

http://frontiersin.org/neuralcircuits/paper/10.3389/neuro.04/003.2008/