research
Research
My main research interests are the underlying mechanisms of social and cued fear, with focus on therapeutical approaches. For this, I am using several behavioral paradigms, as well as pharmacological and histological techniques in both mice and rats. The behavioral paradigms include cued fear conditioning, social fear conditioning, social approach-avoidance, social and object discrimination, elevated plus-maze, forced swim test. The pharmacological and histological techniques include stereotaxic surgery, central (icv, local) and i.p. drug administration, receptor autoradiography.
profile
Profile
2013 to date
Post-doctoral researcher (ELITE-Network Bavaria funded) in Prof. Neumann's group at the University of Regensburg, Germany
2009 – 2013
PhD student in neurobiology in Prof. Neumann's group at the University of Regensburg, Germany
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2007-2009
M Sc. in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences (ECN) at the University of Regensburg, Germany (Master thesis: Role of oxytocin in social memory and social approach behavior in male C57BL/6 mice).
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2002-2006
undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Timisoara, Romania
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April 15th, 1984 in Timisoara, Romania
publications
Publications
2013
Toth I, Neumann ID (2013) Animal models of social avoidance and social fear. Cell and Tissue Research. doi:10.1007/s00441-013-1636-4
Toth I, Neumann ID, Slattery DA (2013) Social fear conditioning as an animal model of social anxiety disorder. Curr Protoc Neurosci. Chapter 9: Unit 9.42. doi: 10.1002/0471142301.ns0942s63.
Lukas M*, Toth I*, Veenema AH, Neumann ID (2013) Oxytocin mediates rodent social memory within the lateral septum and the medial amygdala depending on the relevance of the social stimulus: Male juvenile versus female adult conspecifics. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 38(6): 916-26. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.09.018.
2012
Toth I, Neumann ID, Slattery DA (2012) Central administration of oxytocin receptor ligands affects cued fear extinction in rats and mice in a timepoint-dependent manner. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 223(2):149-58. doi: 10.1007/s00213-012-2702-4.
Toth I, Neumann ID, Slattery DA (2012) Social fear conditioning: a novel and specific animal model to study social anxiety disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 37(6):1433-43. doi: 10.1038/npp.2011.329
Toth I, Dietz M, Peterlik D, Huber SE, Fendt M, Neumann ID, Flor PJ, Slattery DA (2012) Pharmacological interference with metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 7 but not subtype 5 differentially affects within- and between-session extinction of Pavlovian conditioned fear. Neuropharmacology. 62(4):1619-26.
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2011
Lukas M, Toth I, Reber SO, Slattery DA, Veenema AH, Neumann ID (2011) The neuropeptide oxytocin facilitates pro-social behavior and prevents social avoidance in rats and mice. Neuropsychopharmacology. 36(11):2159-68. doi:10.1038/npp.2011.95
