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Gestational stress disrupts dopamine and oxytocin signaling in the postpartum reward system of rats: implications for mood, motivation and mothering Benedetta Leuner Achikam Haim, Christopher Albin-Brooks, Holly Brothers, Michaela Breach, Benedetta Leuner Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Autocrine VEGF drives neural stem cell proximity to the adult hippocampus vascular niche Elizabeth Kirby Tyler J. Dause, Jiyeon K. Denninger, Robert Osap, Ashley E. Walters, Joshua D. Rieskamp, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Beyond Birth Control: The Neuroscience of Hormonal Contraceptives Benedetta Leuner Jesse M. Lacasse, Carina Heller, Sarah Kheloui, Nafissa Ismail, Ami P. Raval, Kristen M. Schuh, Natalie C. Tronson, Benedetta Leuner Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Control of feeding by a bottom-up midbrain-subthalamic pathway Megha Sehgal Fernando M. C. V. Reis , Sandra Maesta-Pereira, Matthias Ollivier, Peter J. Schuette, Ekayana Sethi, Blake A. Miranda, Emily Iniguez, Meghmik Chakerian, Eric Vaughn, Megha Sehgal, Darren C. T. Nguyen, Faith T. H. Yuan, Anita Torossian, Juliane M. Ikebara, Alexandre H. Kihara, Alcino J. Silva, Jonathan C. Kao, Baljit S. Khakh, Avishek Adhikari Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Early spatial recognition memory deficits in 5XFAD female mice are associated with disruption of prefrontal parvalbumin neurons Laurence Coutellier Anish Ganesh, Wajih Choudhury, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience (co-editor) Elizabeth Kirby Elizabeth D. Kirby, Melissa J. Glenn, Noah J. Sandstrom, Christina L. Williams Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Neural stem and progenitor cells support and protect adult hippocampal function via vascular endothelial growth factor secretion Elizabeth Kirby Lisa N. Miller, Ashley E. Walters, Jiyeon K. Denninger, Meretta A. Hanson, Alec H. Marshall, Aidan C. Johantges, Manal Hosawi, Gwendolyn Sebring, Joshua D. Rieskamp, Tianli Ding, Raina Rindani, Kelly S. Chen, Megan E. Goldberg, Sakthi Senthilvelan, Abigail Volk, Fangli Zhao, Candice Askwith, Jason C. Wester, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Open-source, high performance miniature multiphoton microscopy systems for freely behaving animals Megha Sehgal Blake A. Madruga , Conor C. Dorian, Megha Sehgal, Alcino J. Silva, Matthew Shtrahman, Daniel Aharoni, Peyman Golshani Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Excitatory amino acid transporter 1 supports adult hippocampal neural stem cell self-renewal Elizabeth Kirby Joshua D. Rieskamp, Ileanexis Rosado-Burgos, Jacob E. Christofi, Eliza Ansar, Dalia Einstein, Ashley E. Walters, Valentina Valentini, John P. Bruno, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Microglia depletion facilitates the display of maternal behavior and alters activation of the maternal brain network in nulliparous female rats Kathryn Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Courtney N. Dye, Dominic Franceschelli, Benedetta Leuner, Kathryn M. Lenz Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Miniscope-LFOV: A large-field-of-view, single-cell-resolution, miniature microscope for wired and wire-free imaging of neural dynamics in freely behaving animals Megha Sehgal Changliang Guo, Garrett J. Blair, Megha Sehgal, Federico N. Sangiuliano Jimka, Arash Bellafard, Alcino J. Silva, Peyman Golshani, Michele A. Bass, Hugh Tad Blair, Daniel Aharoni Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Prenatal allergic inflammation in rats confers sex-specific alterations to oxytocin and vasopressin innervation in social brain regions Kathryn Lenz Michaela R. Breach, Habib E. Akouri, Sophia Costantine, Claire M. Dodson, Nolan McGovern, Kathryn M. Lenz Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Prepubertal ovariectomy confers resilience to stress-induced anxiety in adult female mice Laurence Coutellier Emma M. Woodward, Amanda Ringland, Jennifer Ackerman, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Sex Differences in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Key Role for the Immune System Kathryn Lenz Michaela R. Breach, Kathryn M. Lenz Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Sex-specific timelines for adaptations of prefrontal parvalbumin neurons in response to stress and changes in anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors Laurence Coutellier Emma Woodward, Claudia Rangel-Barajas, Amanda Ringland, Marian L. Logrip, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Synaptic and intrinsic plasticity within overlapping lateral amygdala ensembles following fear conditioning Megha Sehgal Megha Sehgal , Vanessa E. Ehlers, James R. Moyer Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
A retrograde mechanism coordinates memory allocation across brain regions Megha Sehgal Ayal Lavi, Megha Sehgal, Andre F. de Sousa , Donara Ter-Mkrtchyan, Fardad Sisan, Alessandro Luchetti, Anna Okabe, Cameron Bear, Alcino J. Silva Behavioral Neuroscience 2022
Immune System Alterations and Postpartum Mental Illness: Evidence From Basic and Clinical Research Kathryn Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Courtney N. Dye, Kathryn M. Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Behavioral Neuroscience 2022
The neural stem cell secretome across neurodevelopment Elizabeth Kirby Tyler J. Dause, Jiyeon K. Denninger, Bryon M. Smith, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2022
Age- and sex-specific effects of stress on parvalbumin interneurons in preclinical models: relevance to sex differences in clinical neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders Laurence Coutellier Emma M. Woodward, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2021
Microglia Regulate Cell Genesis in a Sex-dependent Manner in the Neonatal Hippocampus Kathryn Lenz Lars H. Nelson, Pavan Peketi, Kathryn M. Lenz Behavioral Neuroscience 2020