Dr Roger Marek
ARC DECRA Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
+61 7 334 66358
Book Chapter
Marek, Roger and Sah, Pankaj (2018). Neural circuits mediating fear learning and extinction. In Systems neuroscience (pp. 35-48) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94593-4_2
Journal Articles
Marek, Roger, Sun, Yajie and Sah, Pankaj (2019) Neural circuits for a top-down control of fear and extinction. Psychopharmacology, 236 1: 313-320. doi:10.1007/s00213-018-5033-2
Marek, Roger, Jin, Jingji, Goode, Travis D., Giustino, Thomas F., Wang, Qian, Acca, Gillian M., Holehonnur, Roopashri, Ploski, Jonathan E., Fitzgerald, Paul J., Lynagh, Timothy, Lynch, Joseph W., Maren, Stephen and Sah, Pankaj (2018) Author Correction: Hippocampus-driven feed-forward inhibition of the prefrontal cortex mediates relapse of extinguished fear. Nature Neuroscience, 21 9: 1291-1291. doi:10.1038/s41593-018-0183-4
Marek, Roger, Xu, Li, Sullivan, Robert K. P. and Sah, Pankaj (2018) Excitatory connections between the prelimbic and infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex show a role for the prelimbic cortex in fear extinction. Nature Neuroscience, 21 5: 654-658. doi:10.1038/s41593-018-0137-x
Marek, Roger, Jin, Jingji, Goode, Travis D., Giustino, Thomas F., Wang, Qian, Acca, Gillian M., Holehonnur, Roopashri, Ploski, Jonathan E., Fitzgerald, Paul J., Lynagh, Timothy, Lynch, Joseph W., Maren, Stephen and Sah, Pankaj (2018) Hippocampus-driven feed-forward inhibition of the prefrontal cortex mediates relapse of extinguished fear. Nature Neuroscience, 21 3: 1-9. doi:10.1038/s41593-018-0073-9
Strobel, Cornelia, Marek, Roger, Gooch, Helen, Sullivan, Robert K. P. and Sah, Pankaj (2015) Prefrontal and auditory input to intercalated neurons of the Amygdala. Cell Reports, 10 9: 1435-1442. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.02.008
Suarez, Rodrigo, Fenlon, Laura R., Marek, Roger, Avitan, Lilach A, Sah, Pankaj, Goodhill, Geoffrey J. and Richards, Linda J. (2014) Balanced interhemispheric cortical activity is required for correct targeting of the corpus callosum. Neuron, 82 6: 1289-1298. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.04.040
Marek, Roger, Strobel, Cornelia, Bredy, Timothy W. and Sah, Pankaj (2013) The amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex: partners in the fear circuit. Journal of Physiology, 591 10: 2381-2391. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2012.248575
Michel, Stephan, Marek, Roger, vanderLeest, Henk T., vanSteensel, Mariska J., Schwartz, William J., Colwell, Christopher S. and Meijer, Johanna H. (2013) Mechanism of bilateral communication in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. European Journal of Neuroscience, 37 6: 964-971. doi:10.1111/ejn.12109
Wei, Wei, Coelho, Carlos M., Li, Xiang, Marek, Roger, Yan, Shanzhi, Anderson, Shawn, Meyers, David, Mukherjee, Chandrani, Sbardella, Gianluca, Castellano, Sabrina, Milite, Ciro, Rotili, Dante, Mai, Antonello, Cole, Philip A., Sah, Pankaj, Kobor, Michael S. and Bredy, Timothy W. (2012) p300/CBP-associated factor selectively regulates the extinction of conditioned fear. Journal of Neuroscience, 32 35: 11930-11941. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0178-12.2012
Marek, Roger, Coelho, Carlos M., Sullivan, Robert K. P., Baker-Andresen, Danay, Li, Xiang, Ratnu, Vikram, Dudley, Kevin J., Meyers, David, Mukherjee, Chandrani, Cole, Philip A., Sah, Pankaj and Bredy, Timothy W. (2011) Paradoxical enhancement of fear extinction memory and synaptic plasticity by inhibition of the histone acetyltransferase p300. Journal of Neuroscience, 31 20: 7486-7491. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0133-11.2011
Langguth, Berthold, Sand, Philipp, Marek, Roger, Landgrebe, Michael, Frank, Elmar, Hajak, Goeran and Eichhammer, Peter (2009) Allelic Variation in the Serotonin Transporter Promoter Modulates Cortical Excitability (Retracted article. See vol. 67, pg. 193, 2010). Biological Psychiatry, 66 3: 283-286. doi:10.1016/biopsych.2009.02.2005
Thesis
Marek, Roger (2013). Investigation of the connectivity of the medial PFC and amygdala linked to fear memory PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland.