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Susan J. Sara

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Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action CNRS-College de France, Paris, Île-de-France, France 
Area:
learning, memory, neuromodulation, noradarenaline
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http://www.lppa.college-de-france.fr/EN/equipes/people/Sara/index.htm
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After obtaining a degree in Physiological Psychology from Sarah Lawrence College (New York), SJS studied Phenomenological Psychology and Neurosciences at the University of Louvain (Belgium), obtaining a Ph.D. in 1976. This was followed by post-doctoral work at Oxford University with the late Professor J. Gray and New York University Medical School (Dept of Neurology).

Recruited by the CNRS in 1981, her research addresses the question of how attention, motivation and emotion are mediated in the nervous system to influence short and long term memory processes. Focus is on neuromodulatory systems, especially noradrenaline, using a multidisciplinary approach - single unit recording in behaving rats, pharmacology and immunocytochemistry, always in close conjunction with behavioural analysis. The temporal dynamics of long term memory consolidation, retrieval and reconsolidation has been an important part of this work over the years.

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Corneliu Giurgea grad student University of Louvain

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Selim Onat research assistant 2001-2002 Laboratory of Neuromodulation and Cognitive Processes
Valerie Devauges grad student CNRS-Gif sur Yvette
Sophie Tronel grad student 1998-2004 CNRS-College de France
Sebastien Bouret grad student 2000-2005 Universite Paris 6
Oxana Eschenko post-doc 2003-2006 University Pierre et Marie Curie

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Oberto V, Gao H, Biondi A, et al. (2023) Activation of prefrontal cortex and striatal regions in rats after shifting between rules in a T-maze. Learning & Memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). 30: 133-138
Poe GR, Foote S, Eschenko O, et al. (2020) Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
Xiang L, Harel A, Gao H, et al. (2019) Behavioral correlates of activity of optogenetically identified locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons in rats performing T-maze tasks. Scientific Reports. 9: 1361
Novitskaya Y, Sara SJ, Logothetis NK, et al. (2016) Ripple-triggered stimulation of the locus coeruleus during post-learning sleep disrupts ripple/spindle coupling and impairs memory consolidation. Learning & Memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). 23: 238-48
Sara SJ. (2015) Locus Coeruleus in time with the making of memories. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 35: 87-94
Sara SJ, Bouret S. (2012) Orienting and reorienting: the locus coeruleus mediates cognition through arousal. Neuron. 76: 130-41
Eschenko O, Magri C, Panzeri S, et al. (2012) Noradrenergic neurons of the locus coeruleus are phase locked to cortical up-down states during sleep. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 22: 426-35
Sara SJ. (2010) Reactivation, retrieval, replay and reconsolidation in and out of sleep: connecting the dots. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 4: 185
Ramadan W, Eschenko O, Sara SJ. (2009) Hippocampal sharp wave/ripples during sleep for consolidation of associative memory. Plos One. 4: e6697
Mölle M, Eschenko O, Gais S, et al. (2009) The influence of learning on sleep slow oscillations and associated spindles and ripples in humans and rats. The European Journal of Neuroscience. 29: 1071-81
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