Marie-France Marin holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Montreal and completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Quebec in Montreal, an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Montreal, a researcher at the Montreal Mental Health University Institute Research Centre, and a research member of the Réseau intersectoriel de recherche en santé de l’Université du Québec. Her expertise focuses on the impact of stress and stress hormones on the modulation of emotional memories. During her postdoctoral training, she furthered her knowledge of the modulation of memory processes, with a particular focus on fear-related and traumatic memories. In 2016, she founded the Stress, Trauma, Emotions, Anxiety, and Memory Lab (STEAM Lab). She and her team pursue two main research axes: one focusing on the mechanisms by which stress and sex hormones influence fear and safety learning and the other focusing on the intergenerational transmission of the risk for psychopathologies in families with a parent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Overall, supported by major funding agencies, her research aims to document the environmental and biological factors that increase one’s vulnerability to developing various stress or fear-related psychopathologies. Recently, she was awarded a Canada Research Chair in hormonal modulation of cognitive and emotional functions.
Experience
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2018–presentProfessor, University of Quebec in Montreal
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2018–presentAdjunct professor, University of Montreal
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2016–presentResearcher, Montreal Mental Health University Institute Research Centre
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2016–2018Research assistant professor, University of Montreal
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2015–2016Assistant researcher, Massachusetts General Hospital
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2015–2016Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Education
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2023University of Quebec in Montreal, Prix du mérite – Recherche et création – catégorie relève
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2023Government of Quebec, Prix du Québec – Prix Relève scientifique
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2022University of Quebec in Montreal, Excellence in Research Award – Young Researcher
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2019Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie , Prix Émergence en Recherche
Publications
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2023Morphologic Alterations of the Fear Circuitry: The Role of Sex Hormones and Oral Contraceptives, Frontiers in Endocrinology
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2023When asking ‘are you stressed?’ is not enough: Hair cortisol, subjective stress, and alcohol use during the first year of the pandemic, Psychoneuroendocrinology
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2023The role of sex hormones, oral contraceptive use, and its parameters on visuospatial abilities, verbal fluency, and verbal memory, Hormones and Behavior
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2023Parent-Child Physiological Concordance Predicts Stronger Observational Fear Learning in Children with a Less Secure Relationship with Their Parent, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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2023Using unconditioned responses to predict fear acquisition, fear extinction learning, and extinction retention patterns: Sex hormone status matters, Behavioural Brain Research
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2023Vulnerability to anxiety differently predicts cortisol reactivity and state anxiety during a laboratory stressor in healthy girls and boys, Journal of Affective Disorders
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2022Pre-pandemic socio-emotional vulnerability, internalizing and externalizing symptoms predict changes in hair cortisol concentrations in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in children, Psychoneuroendocrinology
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2022The impact of Canadian medical delays and preventative measures on breast cancer experience: A silent battle masked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
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2022The Association of Childhood Maltreatment, Sex, and Hair Cortisol Concentrations with Trajectories of Depressive and Anxious Symptoms Among Adult Psychiatric Inpatients, Psychosomatic Medicine
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2022A longitudinal investigation of psychological distress in children during COVID-19: The role of socio-emotional vulnerability, European Journal of Psychotraumatology
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2022A Year Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Deleterious Impact of Hormonal Contraception on Psychological Distress in Women, Frontiers in Psychiatry
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2020Relationship security with father predicts vicarious fear transmission in children more sensitive to anxiety, Frontiers in Psychology
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2020Vicarious conditioned fear acquisition and extinction in child-parent dyads, Scientific reports
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2020Multimodal Categorical and Dimensional Approaches to Understanding Threat Conditioning and Its Extinction in Individuals With Anxiety Disorders, JAMA Psychiatry
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2019High cortisol awakening response in the aftermath of workplace violence exposure moderates the association between acute stress disorder symptoms and PTSD symptoms, Psychoneuroendocrinology
Grants and Contracts
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2022Modulation hormonale des fonctions cognitives et émotionnelles
- Role:
- Principal investigator
- Funding Source:
- Canada Research Chairs
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2021Laboratoire Hormones, Cognition & Émotions
- Role:
- Principal investigator
- Funding Source:
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
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2021Intergenerational transmission of vulnerability to PTSD: When children learn fear from their parent
- Role:
- Principal investigator
- Funding Source:
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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2020Long-lasting effects of oral contraceptive use during adolescence: An investigation of neural, endocrine, and cognitive systems
- Role:
- Principal investigator
- Funding Source:
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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2018Interaction between stress and sex hormones on fear and extinction memories
- Role:
- Principal investigator
- Funding Source:
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Professional Memberships
- Outgoing president of the Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie
- Associate Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
- Research Member of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology
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