Publications

2023

• Lee H.-S., Han J.-H. Activity patterns of individual neurons and ensembles correlated with retrieval of a contextual memory in the dorsal CA1 of mouse hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience 2023 Jan 4;43(1):113-124. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1407-22.2022. Epub 2022 Nov 4.

2022

• Cho H.-Y., Lee H.-S., Jeong Y., Han J., Yoo M., Han J.-H. Excitability-Independent Memory Allocation for Repeated Event. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16, 860027.

• Yun Y.-J., Park B.-H., Hou J., Oh J.-P., Han J.-H., Kim S.-C. Ginsenoside F1 protects the brain against amyloid beta-induced toxicity by regulating IDE and NEP. Life (Basel) 12(1):58.

2021

• Cho H.-Y., Shin W., Lee H.-S., Lee Y., Kim M., Oh J.-P., Han J., Jeong Y., Suh B., Kim E., Han J.-H. Turnover of fear engram cells by repeated experience. Current Biology 31(24): 5450-5461.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.004. Online ahead of print. [한빛사인터뷰]

• Dispatches. Learning and memory: Shuffling memory traces by relearning. Yokose et al., 2021. Current Biology 31, R1588-R1591.

• Lee Y., Oh J.-P., Han J.-H. Dissociated role of thalamic and cortical input to the lateral amygdala for consolidation of long-term fear memory. Journal of Neuroscience 41(46):9561-9570. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1167-21.2021. 

• Jeong Y., Cho H.-Y., Kim M., Oh J.-P., Kang M.S., Yoo M., Lee H.-S., Han J.-H. Synaptic plasticity-dependent competition rule influences memory formation. Nature Communications  12, 3915. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24269-4. [한빛사인터뷰]

• Kang M.S., Han J.-H. Optogenetic inhibition of medial entorhinal cortex inputs to the hippocampus during a short period of time right after learning disrupts contextual fear memory formation. Molecular Brain 14(1):2. 

2020

• Lee H.-S., Han J.-H. Successful in vivo calcium imaging with a head-mount miniaturized microscope in the amygdala of freely behaving mouse. Journal of  Visualized Experiments 162. doi: 10.3791/61659. 

• Oh J.-P., Han J.-H. A critical role of hippocampus for formation of remote cued fear memory. Molecular Brain 13(1):112. 

• Yoo M., Park S., Jung I., and Han J.-H. Persistence of fear memory depends on a delayed elevation of BAF53b and FGF1 expression in the lateral amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience 40(37): 7133-7141. 

2019

• Han J.*, Oh J.-P.*, Yoo M.*, Cui C.-H., Jeon B.-M., Kim S.-C.†, and Han J.-H†. Minor ginsenoside F1 improves memory in APP/PS1 mice. Molecular Brain 12: 77. 

• Park J., Longo F., Park S.J., Lee S., Bae M., Tyagi R., Han J.-H., Kim S., Santini E., Klann E., Snyder S.H. Inositol polyphosphate multikinase mediates extinction of fear memory.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116(7): 2707-2712. 

2018

• Jhang J., Lee H., Kang M.S., Lee H.-S., Park H.† , Han J.-H.† Anterior Cingulate Cortex and its input to the Basolateral Amygdala Control Innate Fear Response. Nature Communications 9(1): 2744. 

2017

• Cho H.-Y.*, Kim M.*, Han J.-H. Specific disruption of contextual memory recall by sparse additional activity in the dentate gyrus. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 145: 190-198.

• Yoo M.*, Choi K.-Y.*, Kim J., Kim M., Shim J., Choi J., Cho H.-Y., Oh J.-P., Kim H.-S., Kaang B.-K., and Han J.-H. BAF53b, a neuron-specific nucleosome remodeling factor, is induced after learning and facilitates long-term memory consolidation. Journal of Neuroscience 37: 3689-3697. 

2016

• Lee S.-H.*, Shim J.*, Cheong Y.-H.*, Choi S.-L., Jun Y.-W., Lee S.-H., Chae Y.-S., Han J.-H., Lee Y.-S., Lee J.-A., Lim C.-S., Si K., Kassabov S., Antonov I., Kandel E.R., Kaang B.-K., Jang D.-J. ApCREB4, a non-prion domain containing homolog of ApCREB, is involved in the initiation of long-term facilitation. Molecular Brain 9: 91.

• Kim J.-I., Cho H.-Y., Han J.-H., Kaang B.-K. Which neurons will be the engram - activated neurons and/or more excitable neurons? Experimental Neurobiology 25: 55-63. 

• Kim H.-S., Cho H.-Y., Augustine G.J., Han J.-H. Selective Control of Fear Expression by Optogenetic Manipulation of Infralimbic Cortex after Extinction. Neuropsychopharmacology 41(5): 261-73. 

2015

• Choi K.-Y., Yoo M. and Han J.-H. Toward understanding the role of the neuron-specific BAF chromatin remodeling complex in memory formation. Experimental Molecular Medicine 3;47: e155. 

2014

• Kwon J. T., Nakajima R., Kim H.-S., Jeong Y., Augustine G.J., Han J.-H. Optogenetic activation of presynaptic inputs in lateral amygdala forms associative fear memory. Learning & Memory 21: 627-63. 

• Kim, J.*, Kwon J.-T.*, Kim H.-S., Josselyn, S.A., Han J.-H. Memory recall and modifications by activating neurons with elevated CREB. Nature Neuroscience 17(1): 65-72. 

2013

• Sargin D., Mercaldo V., Yiu A.P., Higgs G., Han J.-H., Frankland P.W. and Josselyn S.A. CREB regulates spine density of lateral amygdala neurons: implications for memory allocation. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 7: 209. 

• Kim J., Kwon J.-T., Kim H.-S., and Han J.-H. CREB and neuronal selection for memory trace. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 7: 44. 

2012

• Kwon J.-T., Jhang J., Kim H.-S., Lee S., Han J.-H. Brain region-specific activity patterns after recent or remote memory retrieval of auditory conditioned fear. Learning & Memory 19: 487-494.

• Cole C.J., Mercaldo V., Restivo L., Yiu A.P., Sekeres M., Han J.-H., Vetere G., Pekar T., Ross P.J., Neve R.L., Frankland P.W., Josselyn S.A. MEF2 negatively regulates learning-induced structural plasticity and memory formation. Nature Neuroscience 15(9): 1255-1264. 

<2009

• Han J.-H., Kushner S.A., Hsiang H.L., Yiu A.P., Buch T., Waisman A., Bontempi B., Neve R.L., Frankland P.W., Josselyn S.A. Selective erasure of a fear memory. Science 323: 1492-1496 (2009). 

• Han J.-H.*, Kushner S.A.*, Yiu A.P., Cole C.A., Matynia A., Brown R.A., Neve R., Guzowski J.F., Silva A.J., Josselyn S.A. Neuronal competition and selection during memory formation. Science 316: 457-460 (2007). 

(* co-first author; † co-corresponding author)