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A Novel Role of the WNT-Dishevelled-GSK3 Signaling Cascade in the Mouse Nucleus Accumbens in a Social Defeat Model of Depression

scientific article published on June 22, 2011

A prefrontal-paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

A standardized protocol for repeated social defeat stress in mice.

scientific article published on 21 July 2011

ACF chromatin-remodeling complex mediates stress-induced depressive-like behavior

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AKT signaling within the ventral tegmental area regulates cellular and behavioral responses to stressful stimuli.

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Akt-dependent and isoform-specific regulation of dopamine transporter cell surface expression.

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Antidepressant actions of histone deacetylase inhibitors

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BDNF is a negative modulator of morphine action

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Basal forebrain projections to the lateral habenula modulate aggression reward

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Brain feminization requires active repression of masculinization via DNA methylation

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Cell-Type-Specific Role of ΔFosB in Nucleus Accumbens In Modulating Intermale Aggression

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Cell-type specific expression of p11 controls cocaine reward

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Cell-type-specific role for nucleus accumbens neuroligin-2 in depression and stress susceptibility.

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Chromatin remodeling is a key mechanism underlying cocaine-induced plasticity in striatum

scientific article (publication date: 20 October 2005)

Cocaine induction of ERK proteins in dorsal striatum of Fischer rats.

scientific article published on 4 November 2005

Cocaine regulates MEF2 to control synaptic and behavioral plasticity

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Constance E. Lieber, Theodore R. Stanley, and the Enduring Impact of Philanthropy on Psychiatry Research

scientific article published on July 2016

Corrigendum: a standardized protocol for repeated social defeat stress in mice

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

DeltaFosB accumulates in a GABAergic cell population in the posterior tail of the ventral tegmental area after psychostimulant treatment.

scientific article published in May 2005

DeltaFosB induction in orbitofrontal cortex mediates tolerance to cocaine-induced cognitive dysfunction.

scientific article published in September 2007

Depression and social defeat stress are associated with inhibitory synaptic changes in the nucleus accumbens

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Drug experience epigenetically primes Fosb gene inducibility in rat nucleus accumbens

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Effects of acute and chronic social defeat stress are differentially mediated by the dynorphin/kappa-opioid receptor system

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Effects of inhibitor of κB kinase activity in the nucleus accumbens on emotional behavior.

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Epigenetic basis of opiate suppression of Bdnf gene expression in the ventral tegmental area

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Epigenetic modulation of inflammation and synaptic plasticity promotes resilience against stress in mice

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Epigenetic regulation of RAC1 induces synaptic remodeling in stress disorders and depression

scientific article published on 17 February 2013

Essential role of BDNF in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway in social defeat stress

scientific article (publication date: 10 February 2006)

Essential role of the histone methyltransferase G9a in cocaine-induced plasticity

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Estrogen receptor α drives pro-resilient transcription in mouse models of depression

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Excitatory transmission at thalamo-striatal synapses mediates susceptibility to social stress

scientific article published on June 2015

Fluoxetine epigenetically alters the CaMKIIα promoter in nucleus accumbens to regulate ΔFosB binding and antidepressant effects

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GR-owing up stressed: implications for anxiety and addiction.

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Genetic and Stress-Induced Loss of NG2 Glia Triggers Emergence of Depressive-like Behaviors through Reduced Secretion of FGF2.

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Genome-wide analysis of chromatin regulation by cocaine reveals a role for sirtuins

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Gonadal hormones differentially modulate cocaine-induced conditioned place preference in male and female rats.

scientific article published in January 2003

HDAC2 regulates atypical antipsychotic responses through the modulation of mGlu2 promoter activity.

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Hippocampal GluA1-containing AMPA receptors mediate context-dependent sensitization to morphine.

scientific article published on November 2011

Histone deacetylase 5 epigenetically controls behavioral adaptations to chronic emotional stimuli

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IRS2-Akt pathway in midbrain dopamine neurons regulates behavioral and cellular responses to opiates.

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Immune and Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Stress Vulnerability and Resilience

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Impaired striatal Akt signaling disrupts dopamine homeostasis and increases feeding

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Individual differences in the peripheral immune system promote resilience versus susceptibility to social stress

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Insulin receptor substrate-2 in the ventral tegmental area regulates behavioral responses to cocaine.

scientific article published on October 2008

Integrating Interleukin-6 into depression diagnosis and treatment

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Integrative Analysis of Sex-Specific microRNA Networks Following Stress in Mouse Nucleus Accumbens

scientific article published on 23 December 2016

IκB kinase regulates social defeat stress-induced synaptic and behavioral plasticity

scientific article published on January 2011

Kalirin-7 mediates cocaine-induced AMPA receptor and spine plasticity, enabling incentive sensitization

scientific article published on July 2013

Learning to deal with life's ups and downs.

scientific article published on June 2013

Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors.

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MK-801 attenuates cocaine induction of c-fos and preprodynorphin mRNA levels in Fischer rats

scientific article published in October 2003

Mechanisms of Psychostimulant-Induced Structural Plasticity

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Mefloquine in the nucleus accumbens promotes social avoidance and anxiety-like behavior in mice

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Molecular adaptations of the blood-brain barrier promote stress resilience vs. depression

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Molecular adaptations underlying susceptibility and resistance to social defeat in brain reward regions

scientific article (publication date: 19 October 2007)

Neurobiology of resilience

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Neuroimmune mechanisms of depression

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Neuroinflammation Regulates Cognitive Impairment in Socially Defeated Mice

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

New translational perspectives for blood-based biomarkers of PTSD: From glucocorticoid to immune mediators of stress susceptibility

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Next generation antidepressants

scientific article published on March 7, 2013

Nuclear factor kappa B signaling regulates neuronal morphology and cocaine reward.

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Orexin signaling in GABAergic lateral habenula neurons modulates aggressive behavior in male mice

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Orexin signaling mediates the antidepressant-like effect of calorie restriction

scientific article published on March 2008

PTEN knockdown alters dendritic spine/protrusion morphology, not density

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Parkinson's Disease-Linked LRRK2-G2019S Mutation Alters Synaptic Plasticity and Promotes Resilience to Chronic Social Stress in Young Adulthood.

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Paternal transmission of stress-induced pathologies.

scientific article published on 16 June 2011

Pathogenesis of depression: Insights from human and rodent studies

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Persistent conditioned place preference to aggression experience in adult male sexually-experienced CD-1 mice

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Phosphorylation of DeltaFosB mediates its stability in vivo

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Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons require juvenile social experience to establish adult social behavior

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Prenatal Stress Induces Schizophrenia-Like Alterations of Serotonin 2A and Metabotropic Glutamate 2 Receptors in the Adult Offspring: Role of Maternal Immune System

scientific article published on January 16, 2013

Progesterone attenuates cocaine-induced conditioned place preference in female rats.

scientific article published in November 2007

Progesterone inhibits behavioral responses and estrogen increases corticosterone levels after acute cocaine administration.

scientific article published in April 2005

RGS9-2 is a negative modulator of mu-opioid receptor function

scientific article (publication date: October 2007)

Rac1 is essential in cocaine-induced structural plasticity of nucleus accumbens neurons

scientific article published on June 2012

Rapid regulation of depression-related behaviours by control of midbrain dopamine neurons

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Recent advances in the study of aggression

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Reduced Slc6a15 in Nucleus Accumbens D2-Neurons Underlies Stress Susceptibility.

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Regulation of impulsive and aggressive behaviours by a novel lncRNA

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Regulator of G protein signaling 4 [corrected] is a crucial modulator of antidepressant drug action in depression and neuropathic pain models

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

Repressive Epigenetic Changes at the mGlu2 Promoter in Frontal Cortex of 5-HT2A Knockout Mice

scientific article published on March 18, 2013

Role for mTOR signaling and neuronal activity in morphine-induced adaptations in ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons

scientific article published on December 2011

Role of nuclear factor kappaB in ovarian hormone-mediated stress hypersensitivity in female mice.

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Sex Differences in Nucleus Accumbens Transcriptome Profiles Associated with Susceptibility versus Resilience to Subchronic Variable Stress.

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Sex differences in cocaine-induced behavioral responses, pharmacokinetics, and monoamine levels.

scientific article published in April 2004

Sex differences in the conditioned rewarding effects of cocaine.

scientific article published in April 2003

Social stress induces neurovascular pathology promoting depression

scientific article published on 13 November 2017

Stress and CRF gate neural activation of BDNF in the mesolimbic reward pathway

scientific article published on 24 November 2013

Sub-chronic variable stress induces sex-specific effects on glutamatergic synapses in the nucleus accumbens

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Subregional, Dendritic Compartment, and Spine Subtype Specificity in Cocaine Regulation of Dendritic Spines in the Nucleus Accumbens

scientific article published on May 16, 2012

Synaptic proteins in the hippocampus indicative of increased neuronal activity in CA3 in schizophrenia

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

The addicted synapse: mechanisms of synaptic and structural plasticity in nucleus accumbens.

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The brain reward circuitry in mood disorders

scientific article published on August 14, 2013

The potential for viral gene therapy in psychiatry.

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Transcriptional mechanisms: underlying addiction-related structural plasticity.

scientific article published on August 2010

Understanding the epigenetic basis of sex differences in depression.

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Unmasking Proteolytic Activity for Adult Visual Cortex Plasticity by the Removal of Lynx1

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VGF and its C-terminal peptide TLQP-62 in ventromedial prefrontal cortex regulate depression-related behaviors and the response to ketamine

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Vendor differences in cocaine-induced behavioral activity and hormonal interactions in ovariectomized Fischer rats.

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Viral-mediated expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase-2 in the ventral tegmental area modulates behavioral responses to cocaine

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Whole blood transcriptional signatures associated with rapid antidepressant response to ketamine in patients with treatment resistant depression

scientific article published on 10 January 2022

Wilm's tumor 1 promotes memory flexibility

scientific article published on 21 August 2019