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Steve Maren

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Contact Information

405 N. Mathews Ave.
1327A Beckman Institute
M/C 251
Urbana, IL 61801
Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Psychology

Research Interests

Neurobiology of emotional learning and memory; Fear and anxiety; Psychopathology; Synaptic plasticity

Education

Biological Sciences (Neurobiology), PhD, University of Southern California
Psychology, BS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Awards and Honors

2019 Gantt Medal, Pavlovian Society

Additional Campus Affiliations

Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences

Highlighted Publications

Totty, M. S., Tuna, T., Ramanathan, K. R., Jin, J., Peters, S. E., & Maren, S. (2023). Thalamic nucleus reuniens coordinates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony to suppress extinguished fear. Nature communications, 14(1), Article 6565. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42315-1

Binette, A. N., Liu, J., Bayer, H., Crayton, K. L., Melissari, L., Sweck, S. O., & Maren, S. (2023). Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Regulate Stress-Induced Fear Extinction Impairments in Male and Female Rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(22), 4162-4173. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1442-22.2023

Vasudevan, K., Hassell, J. E., & Maren, S. (2024). Hippocampal Engrams and Contextual Memory. Advances in neurobiology, 38, 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62983-9_4

Plas, S. L., Tuna, T., Bayer, H., Juliano, V. A. L., Sweck, S. O., Arellano Perez, A. D., Hassell, J. E., & Maren, S. (2024). Neural circuits for the adaptive regulation of fear and extinction memory. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, Article 1352797. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1352797

Liu, J., Totty, M. S., Melissari, L., Bayer, H., & Maren, S. (2022). Convergent Coding of Recent and Remote Fear Memory in the Basolateral Amygdala. Biological Psychiatry, 91(9), 832-840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.12.018

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Recent Publications

Bayer, H., Hassell, J. E., Oleksiak, C. R., Garcia, G. M., Vaughan, H. L., Juliano, V. A. L., & Maren, S. (Accepted/In press). Pharmacological stimulation of infralimbic cortex after fear conditioning facilitates subsequent fear extinction. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49(13), 1951-1957. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01961-9

Oleksiak, C. R., Plas, S. L., Carriaga, D., Vasudevan, K., Maren, S., & Moscarello, J. M. (2024). Ventral hippocampus mediates inter-trial responding in signaled active avoidance. Behavioural Brain Research, 470, Article 115071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115071

Plas, S. L., Oleksiak, C. R., Pitre, C., Melton, C., Moscarello, J. M., & Maren, S. (2024). Acute stress yields a sex-dependent facilitation of signaled active avoidance in rats. Neurobiology of Stress, 31, Article 100656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2024.100656

Plas, S. L., Tuna, T., Bayer, H., Juliano, V. A. L., Sweck, S. O., Arellano Perez, A. D., Hassell, J. E., & Maren, S. (2024). Neural circuits for the adaptive regulation of fear and extinction memory. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, Article 1352797. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1352797

Vasudevan, K., Hassell, J. E., & Maren, S. (2024). Hippocampal Engrams and Contextual Memory. Advances in neurobiology, 38, 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62983-9_4

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