VOUIMBA, Rose-Marie
Institution: Bordeaux University, France
Laboratory/Department: Institut de Neurosciences cognitives et intégratives d’Aquitaine (INCIA), CNRS UMR 5287
Position: Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Research topic:
- Early changes in spinal motor networks from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mouse models
- Interactions between emotions and memory systems: from normal to pathological aging
Methodologies: Electrophysiology in vitro and in vivo, multisite recordings in freely moving mice and rats, stereotaxy, excitotoxic lesion, intracerebral microinjection, behavioral models
3 significant publications:
- Boitard C, Maroun M, Tantot F, Cavaroc A, Sauvant J, Marchand A, Layé S, Capuron L, Darnaudery M, Castanon N, Coutureau E, Vouimba RM, Ferreira G. (2015) Juvenile obesity enhances emotional memory and amygdala plasticity through glucocorticoids. J Neurosci. 35(9):4092-103. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3122-14.2015.
- Vouimba RM, Richter-Levin G. (2013) Different patterns of amygdala priming differentially affect dentate gyrus plasticity and corticosterone, but not CA1 plasticity. Front Neural Circuits. 3;7:80. doi:10.3389/fncir.2013.00080.
- Vouimba RM, Maroun M. (2011) Learning-induced changes in mPFC-BLA connections after fear conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement of fear. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 36(11):2276-85. doi: 10.1038/npp.2011.115.
Participation in the EMN-Online teaching:
S2 – Behavior, Emotion and Cognition
