Karim Nader
Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Professor Nader is interested in understanding what are the neurobiological processes involved in acquiring and storing motional memories, with specific emphasis on fear. One of the main thrusts of the lab is the study of memory reconsolidation. When a memory is retrieved, it is transformed into a vulnerable state in which it can be lost, changed or strengthened depending on the experimental manipulation. He asks questions at the behavioral, physiological and molecular levels of analysis. In addition, he is performing research testing various motivational theories of goal directed behavior.
Research Interest
Behavioral Neuroscience
Publications
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Wang, S, Alverez, L. & Nader, K. (2009). Cellular and systems mechanisms of memory strength as a constraint on auditory fear reconsolidation. Nature Neuroscience, 21 June 2009.
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Hardt, O., Migues, P. Hastings, M, Wong, J. & Nader, K. (2009). PKMζ maintains recent and remote long-term object location but not object identity memory in dorsal hippocampus. Hippocamus, Oct 5th.
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Hardt, O., Einarsson, E. & Nader, K. (2010). A bridge over troubled water: Reconsolidation as a link between cognitive and neuroscienctific memory research traditions. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 141-67.
