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Marie H. Monfils, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
VITA
Email: marie.monfils@gmail.com
Phone: 471-4139 Lab Phone: 471-1417
Office: SEA 6.104 Lab: SEA 6.115
Monfils Lab
See also Behavioral Neuroscience
Marie Monfils received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, under the supervision of Bryan Kolb and Jeffrey Kleim, and her Master’s degree from the University of Calgary with Cam Teskey. She conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University in Joseph LeDoux’s lab. She is currently pursuing 3 research streams: (1) examining the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in synaptic and structural plasticity associated with fear memory consolidation, (2) investigating different post-consolidation manipulations that can persistently attenuate fear memories, and (3) uncovering the adaptive purpose of fear memory reconsolidation.
Representative Publications
Quirk G, Pare D, Richardson R, Herry C, Monfils MH, Schiller D, & Vicentic A (2010) Erasing fear memories with extinction training. Journal of Neuroscience.
Bruchey AK, Jones CE, & Monfils MH (2010) Fear conditioning by proxy: social transmission of fear during memory retrieval. Behavioral Brain Research.
Johansen JP, Hamanaka H, Monfils MH, Behnia R, & LeDoux JE (2010) Optical activation of lateral amygdala pyramidal cells produces associative fear learning. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
K.K. Cowansage, J.E. LeDoux, & Monfils M.H. (2010) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor: from learning to memory and synaptic consolidation. Current molecular pharmacology.
Schiller D, MH Monfils, CM Raio, DC Johnson & EA Phelps (2010) Preventing the return of fear- a non-invasive technique in humans. Nature. 463(7277):49-53
Monfils M.H., K.K. Cowansage, E. Klann & J.E. LeDoux (2009) Extinction-reconsolidation boundaries: key to persistent attenuation of fear memories. Science, EPUB ahead of print, PMID: 19342552.
Monfils MH, I Driscoll, R Vavrek, B Kolb & K Fouad (2008) FGF-2-induced functional improvement from neonatal motor cortex injury via corticospinal projections. Experimental Brain Research, 185(3):453-60.
Monfils MH, KK Cowansage & JE LeDoux (2007) BDNF: linking fear learning to memory consolidation. Molecular Pharmacology, 72(2): 235-237.
Doyere V, J Debiec, MH Monfils, GE Schafe & JE LeDoux (2007) Synapse-specific reconsolidation of distinct fear memories in the lateral amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 10(4): 414-416.
Monfils MH, I Driscoll, NR Melvin & B Kolb (2006). Developmental expression of FGF-2 in the rat brain. Neuroscience, 141(1): 213-21.
Monfils MH, E Plautz & JA Kleim (2005) In search of the motor engram: Motor plasticity as a mechanism for encoding motor experience. (Review) The Neuroscientist, 11(5): 471-483.
