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B.S. University of California, Irvine 1977
M.S. Kent State University, 1981
Ph.D. Kent State University, 1983
Post-doctoral Fellowship
Stanford University, 1983 - 1986
Recent Publications:

1. Foy, Mr., Kim, J.J., Shors, T.J. & Thompson, R.F. Neurobiological foundations of stress, In S. yehuda, and D.I. Mostofsky (Eds.), Stress, Nutrition and Medical Disorders. New Jersey: Humana Press, Inc., in press.

2. Foy, M.R. & Foy, J.G. Reversal of long-delay conditioned taste aversion learning in rats by sex hormone manipulation. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 2003, 38, 203-213.

2. Bi, R., Foy, M.R., Thompson, R.F. & Baudry, M. Effects of estrogen, age, and calpain on MAP Kinase and NMDA receptors in female rat brain. Neurobiology of Aging, 2003, 24, 9774-983.

4. Foy, M.R. Long-term depression (hippocampus). In J.J. Smelser, and P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (Vol. 13, pp.9074-9078. Elsevier Science, 2001.

5. Foy, M.R. 17ß-estradiol: Effect on CA1 hippocampal synaptic plasticity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2001, 76, 239-252.

6. Bi, R., Foy, M.R., Vouimba, R.M., Thompson, R.F. & Baudry, M. Cyclic changes in estrogen regulate synaptic plasticity through the MAP kinase pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2001, 98, 13391-13395.

7. Foy, M.R. Estrogen and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. In J. Steinmetz, M, Gluck, & P. Solomon (Eds.), Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Kearning: A Festrscrift in Honor of Richard F. Thompson. Lawrence Earlbaum, Assoc., Inc., 2001, pp. 317-330. 

8. King, D.A.T., Krupa, D.J., Foy, M.R. & Thompson, R.F. Mechanisms of Neural conditioning. International Review of Neurobiology, 2001, 45, 313-337, 2001.

9. Vouimba, R., Foy, J.G., & Thompson, R.F. 17ß-estradiol suppresses facilitation of long-term depression in aged rats. Brain Research Bull., 2000, 53, 783-787.

10. Foy, M.R., Henderson, V., Berger, T.W. &Thompson, R.F. Estrogen and neural plasticity. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2000, 99, 148-152.

11. Bi, R., Broutman, G., Foy, M.R., Thompson, R.F. & Baudry, M. The tyrosine kinase and MAP kinase pathways mediate multiple effects of estrogen in hippocampus. Proc. National Academy of Sciences, 2000, 97, 3602-3607. 

12. Foy, M.R., Xu, J., Xie, X., Brinton, R.D., Thompson, R.F. & Berger, T.W. 17ß-estradiol enhances NMDA receptor-mediated EPSP's and long-term potentation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 1999, 81, 925-929. 

13. Kim, J.J., Foy, M.R. and Thompson, R.F. Behavioral stress modifies hippocampal plasticity through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation. Proc. National Academy of Sciences, 1996, 93, 4650-4753.

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