Professor of Psychology and Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Area: Biopsychology

Contact Information

Email: maren@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 4046 East Hall & 4137A Undergraduate Science Building
Psychology Phone: 734-936-6532

Alternate Office: lab
Alternate Phone: 734-647-6980

Research and Teaching Interests

My research interests center on the neurobiology of learning and memory, with a special emphasis on the neural systems and cellular mechanisms of emotional learning and memory (e.g., fear conditioning); contextual modulation of memory formation and retrieval; synaptic plasticity and memory storage.

Recent Publications

• Maren, S. (2007). The threatened brain. Science, 317: 1043-1044.
• Maren, S. and Hobin, J. A. (2007). Hippocampal regulation of context-dependent neuronal activity in the lateral amygdala. Learning & Memory, 14:318-324.
• Maren, S. and Chang, C. H (2006). Recent fear is resistant to extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103:18020-18025.
• Corcoran KA, Desmond TJ, Frey KA, Maren S. (2005) Hippocampal inactivation disrupts the acquisition and contextual encoding of fear extinction. J Neurosci, 2005 25:8978-87.
• Maren, S. (2005). Building and burying fear memories in the brain. The Neuroscientist, 11:89-99.
• Maren S, Quirk GJ. (2004). Neuronal signalling of fear memory. Nature Rev Neurosci, 5:844-852.

Editorial Boards

Associate Editor, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
Neural Plasticity and Debates in Neuroscience
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Recent Awards

2004 Fellow of the American Psychological Association
2001 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience)

Notable Media Attention

Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=965F9C20-E7F2-99DF-3CC5BF77DAD5C7A1
Cosmos Magazine http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/830
2002 BBC Frontiers radio program: 'Fear'

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