List of works - Maya Opendak

Adult neurogenesis: a substrate for experience-dependent change.

scientific article published on 21 February 2015

Adverse caregiving in infancy blunts neural processing of the mother

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Bidirectional control of infant rat social behavior via dopaminergic innervation of the basolateral amygdala

scientific article published in 2021

Corticosterone administration targeting a hypo-reactive HPA axis rescues a socially-avoidant phenotype in scarcity-adversity reared rats

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Development of Threat Expression Following Infant Maltreatment: Infant and Adult Enhancement but Adolescent Attenuation

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Developmental and neurobehavioral transitions in survival circuits

Developmental transitions in amygdala PKC isoforms and AMPA receptor expression associated with threat memory in infant rats

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

During infant maltreatment, stress targets hippocampus, but stress with mother present targets amygdala and social behavior

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Early Life Trauma Has Lifelong Consequences for Sleep And Behavior

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Early life adversity during the infant sensitive period for attachment: Programming of behavioral neurobiology of threat processing and social behavior

scientific article

Early life trauma increases threat response of peri-weaning rats, reduction of axo-somatic synapses formed by parvalbumin cells and perineuronal net in the basolateral nucleus of amygdala

scientific article published on 18 October 2018

Enhancing Executive Functions Through Social Interactions: Causal Evidence Using a Cross-Species Model

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Immature Neurons and Radial Glia, But Not Astrocytes or Microglia, Are Altered in Adult Cntnap2 and Shank3 Mice, Models of Autism

scientific article published on September 2016

Infant Trauma Alters Social Buffering of Threat Learning: Emerging Role of Prefrontal Cortex in Preadolescence

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Lasting Adaptations in Social Behavior Produced by Social Disruption and Inhibition of Adult Neurogenesis.

scientific article published on June 2016

Neurobiology of maternal regulation of infant fear: the role of mesolimbic dopamine and its disruption by maltreatment

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

New neurons maintain efficient stress recovery

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Sexual experience enhances cognitive flexibility and dendritic spine density in the medial prefrontal cortex.

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Unique infant neurobiology produces distinctive trauma processing

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Unique neurobiology during the sensitive period for attachment produces distinctive infant trauma processing