Nathan Holmes

Dr Nathan Holmes is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on the neurobiological and behavioral mechanisms underlying attention, learning, and memory, particularly how motivational states like fear alter information processing in normal and diseased brains, with implications for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

• Neurobiology of fear and memory
• Protein synthesis in memory consolidation
• Neural substrates of sensory preconditioning
• Role of amygdala and cortical circuits in fear extinction

His publications and grants highlight expertise in modeling PTSD in rats, investigating synaptic transmission, and exploring oxytocin's role in fear regulation. Current projects examine fear extinction mechanisms and contextual fear processing.

Scientific Awards

• Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2020-2023)
• NHMRC Project Grant (2018-2020)
• DECRA Award (2015-2017)

Dr Holmes supervises multiple PhD candidates studying fear memory encoding, molecular substrates of conditioned fear, and cortical-amygdala interactions in sensory preconditioning. He is affiliated with the Society for Neuroscience, Australian Neuroscience Society, and Australian Learning Group.