Psychology Department -> People -> Faculty Directory ->
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 2 research streams: (1) examining the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in synaptic and structural plasticity associated with fear memory consolidation, and (2) investigating different post-consolidation manipulations that can persistently attenuate fear memories.
Representative Publications
Monfils M.H., K.K. Cowansage, E. Klann & J.E. LeDoux (in press) Extinction-reconsolidation boundaries: key to persistent attenuation of fear memories. Science, EPUB ahead of print, PMID: 19342552.
K.K. Cowansage, J.E. LeDoux, & Monfils M.H. (under review) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor: from learning to memory and synaptic consolidation. Current molecular pharmacology.
Schiller D., M.H. Monfils, C. Raio, D.C. Johnson, & E.A. Phelps (under review) Preventing fear memories from resurfacing: a novel, non-invasive technique in humans.
Monfils M.H., D.E. Bush & J.E. LeDoux (invited review, in press) Neural substrates of conditioned fear, defense, and anxiety, Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Neuroscience. George Koob, Richard F. Thompson & Michel Le Moal (Eds), Elsevier Press.
Monfils M.H., K.K. Cowansage & J.E. LeDoux (2007) BDNF: linking fear learning to memory consolidation. Molecular Pharmacology, 72(2): 235-237.
Doyere V., J. Debiec, M.H. Monfils, G.E. Schafe & J.E. LeDoux (2007) Synapse-specific reconsolidation of distinct fear memories in the lateral amygdala. Nature Neuroscience, 10(4): 414-416.
Monfils, M.H., I. Driscoll, H. Kamitakahara, B. Wilson, C. Flynn, G.C. Teskey, J.A. Kleim & B. Kolb (2006). FGF-2-induced cell proliferation stimulates anatomical, neurophysiological, and functional recovery from neonatal motor cortex injury. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24(3): 739-749.
Monfils M.H., I. Driscoll, N.R. Melvin & B. Kolb (2006). Developmental expression of FGF-2 in the rat brain. Neuroscience, 141(1): 213-21.
Monfils M.H., E. Plautz & J.A. Kleim (2005) In search of the motor engram: Motor plasticity as a mechanism for encoding motor experience. (Review) The Neuroscientist, 11(5): 471-483.
Monfils M.H. & G.C. Teskey (2004) Skilled-learning-induced potentiation in rat sensorimotor cortex: a transient form of behavioural long-term potentiation. Neuroscience, 125(2): 329-336.
