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17β-Estradiol, but not estrone, increases the survival and activation of new neurons in the hippocampus in response to spatial memory in adult female rats.

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

A new beginning

scientific article published in July 2016

Accessible Virtual Arts Recreation for Wellbeing Promotion in Long-Term Care Residents

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Activation and survival of immature neurons in the dentate gyrus with spatial memory is dependent on time of exposure to spatial learning and age of cells at examination.

scientific article published on 7 January 2011

Activational levels of androgens influence risk assessment behaviour but do not influence stress-induced suppression in hippocampal cell proliferation in adult male rats.

scientific article published on 6 October 2006

Adult hippocampal cell proliferation is suppressed with estrogen withdrawal after a hormone-simulated pregnancy

scientific article published on 12 March 2008

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and voluntary running activity: circadian and dose-dependent effects.

scientific article published in April 2004

Alcohol and pregnancy: Effects on maternal care, HPA axis function, and hippocampal neurogenesis in adult females.

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Amphetamine sensitization and cross-sensitization with acute restraint stress: impact of prenatal alcohol exposure in male and female rats

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Androgens Enhance Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Males but Not Females in an Age-Dependent Manner

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Androgens increase survival of adult-born neurons in the dentate gyrus by an androgen receptor-dependent mechanism in male rats.

scientific article

Antidepressant use during pregnancy and serotonin transporter genotype (SLC6A4) affect newborn serum reelin levels.

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Antinociceptive effects of the enkephalinase inhibitor, SCH 34826, in the snail, Cepaea nemoralis

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Basal regulation of HPA and dopamine systems is altered differentially in males and females by prenatal alcohol exposure and chronic variable stress

scientific article published on 08 April 2013

Both estrogen receptor alpha and estrogen receptor beta agonists enhance cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of adult female rats

scientific article published on 23 June 2006

Brain serotonin receptor 4 is decreased after paroxetine treatment in a rat model of perinatal depression

scientific article published on September 2017

Castration differentially affects spatial working and reference memory in male rats.

scientific article published in February 2008

Chronic corticosterone during pregnancy and postpartum affects maternal care, cell proliferation and depressive-like behavior in the dam.

scientific article published on 3 August 2010

Chronic high corticosterone reduces neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult male and female rats.

scientific article published on 18 April 2010

Chronic restraint stress in adolescence differentially influences hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function and adult hippocampal neurogenesis in male and female rats.

scientific article published on 21 July 2010

Defensive behavior and hippocampal cell proliferation: differential modulation by naltrexone during stress

scientific article published in February 2002

Depression during pregnancy and postpartum: contribution of stress and ovarian hormones.

scientific article published on 12 September 2009

Developmental changes in spatial learning in the Morris water-maze in young meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus.

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Disinhibition of the prefrontal cortex leads to brain-wide increases in neuronal activation that are modified by spatial learning

ERalpha, but not ERbeta, mediates the expression of sexual behavior in the female rat.

scientific article published on 21 March 2008

Early and late effects of maternal experience on hippocampal neurogenesis, microglia, and the circulating cytokine milieu

scientific article published on 02 February 2019

Effects of aging, high-fat diet, and testosterone treatment on neural and metabolic outcomes in male brown Norway rats

scientific article published on 22 September 2018

Effects of chronic oestradiol, progesterone and medroxyprogesterone acetate on hippocampal neurogenesis and adrenal mass in adult female rats.

scientific article published in June 2014

Effects of steroid hormones on neurogenesis in the hippocampus of the adult female rodent during the estrous cycle, pregnancy, lactation and aging.

scientific article

Elevated corticosterone levels during the first postpartum period influence subsequent pregnancy outcomes and behaviours of the dam.

scientific article published in November 2011

Elevated corticosterone levels in stomach milk, serum, and brain of male and female offspring after maternal corticosterone treatment in the rat.

scientific article published in September 2010

Endocannabinoids modulate stress-induced suppression of hippocampal cell proliferation and activation of defensive behaviours

scientific article published in October 2006

Endocrine regulation of cognition and neuroplasticity: our pursuit to unveil the complex interaction between hormones, the brain, and behaviour.

scientific article published on December 2008

Endocrine substrates of cognitive and affective changes during pregnancy and postpartum

scientific article published on 03 October 2011

Enzymatic Depletion of the Polysialic Acid Moiety Associated with the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Inhibits Antidepressant Efficacy

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Estradiol and GPER Activation Differentially Affect Cell Proliferation but Not GPER Expression in the Hippocampus of Adult Female Rats

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Estradiol does not influence strategy choice but place strategy choice is associated with increased cell proliferation in the hippocampus of female rats.

scientific article published on 3 August 2010

Estradiol enhances neurogenesis in the dentate gyri of adult male meadow voles by increasing the survival of young granule neurons.

scientific article published in January 2004

Estradiol initially enhances but subsequently suppresses (via adrenal steroids) granule cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of adult female rats.

scientific article published in May 2003

Estradiol modulates effort-based decision making in female rats

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Estradiol-induced enhancement in cell proliferation is mediated through estrogen receptors in the dentate gyrus of adult female rats

scientific article published in October 2005

Everyday life memory deficits in pregnant women.

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Exposure to fox odor inhibits cell proliferation in the hippocampus of adult rats via an adrenal hormone-dependent mechanism

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Fifty years of stress and more to come: A tribute to Bruce S. McEwen

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

First reproductive experience persistently affects spatial reference and working memory in the mother and these effects are not due to pregnancy or 'mothering' alone.

scientific article published on 29 September 2006

Folic acid, but not folate, regulates different stages of neurogenesis in the ventral hippocampus of adult female rats

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Gestational and postpartum corticosterone exposure to the dam affects behavioral and endocrine outcome of the offspring in a sexually-dimorphic manner

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Gonadal hormone modulation of hippocampal neurogenesis in the adult

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Gonadal hormone modulation of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult male and female rodents.

scientific article published on 9 June 2007

High level estradiol impairs and low level estradiol facilitates non-spatial working memory

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High levels of estradiol impair spatial performance in the Morris water maze and increase 'depressive-like' behaviors in the female meadow vole.

scientific article published in November 2002

High post-partum levels of corticosterone given to dams influence postnatal hippocampal cell proliferation and behavior of offspring: A model of post-partum stress and possible depression

scientific article published on 15 June 2006

Hippocampal learning, memory, and neurogenesis: Effects of sex and estrogens across the lifespan in adults.

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Hippocampal morphology is differentially affected by reproductive experience in the mother.

scientific article published on January 2006

Hippocampal plasticity during the peripartum period: influence of sex steroids, stress and ageing

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Hippocampus-dependent learning influences hippocampal neurogenesis

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

Hippocampus-dependent learning promotes survival of new neurons in the dentate gyrus at a specific time during cell maturation.

scientific article published on 10 August 2007

Hippocampus-dependent strategy choice predicts low levels of cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus

scientific article published on 29 January 2009

Hormonal Regulation of Hippocampal Neurogenesis: Implications for Depression and Exercise

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Hormonal modulators of glial ABCA1 and apoE levels

scientific article published on 02 September 2013

Hormones and the regulation of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus and beyond: Where are we now? Introduction to the special issue on hormonal regulation of adult neurogenesis: Implications for disease.

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Hypogonadism predisposes males to the development of behavioural and neuroplastic depressive phenotypes.

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Improving pharmacological treatment in brain and mental health disorders: the need for gender and sex analyses

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Increased Hippocampal Neurogenesis and p21 Expression in Depression: Dependent on Antidepressants, Sex, Age, and Antipsychotic Exposure ⬇️

scientific article published on May 23, 2013

Inflammation in Alzheimer's Disease: Do Sex and APOE Matter?

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Influence of different estrogens on neuroplasticity and cognition in the hippocampus

scientific article published on 25 January 2010

Influence of sex and stress exposure across the lifespan on endophenotypes of depression: focus on behavior, glucocorticoids, and hippocampus

scientific article

Intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine: Results from a population-based survey in Canada

scientific article published on 5 February 2021

Low levels of estradiol facilitate, whereas high levels of estradiol impair, working memory performance on the radial arm maze.

scientific article published in October 2002

Males show stronger contextual fear conditioning than females after context pre-exposure

scientific article published in January 2010

Maternal bisphenol A (BPA) decreases attractiveness of male offspring ⬇️

scientific article published on July 5, 2011

Maternal care affects male and female offspring working memory and stress reactivity.

scientific article published on 4 July 2007

Maternal exercise increases but concurrent maternal fluoxetine prevents the increase in hippocampal neurogenesis of adult offspring

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Maternal postpartum corticosterone and fluoxetine differentially affect adult male and female offspring on anxiety-like behavior, stress reactivity, and hippocampal neurogenesis

scientific article

Motherhood alters the cellular response to estrogens in the hippocampus later in life.

scientific article published on 19 January 2010

Multiparity-induced enhancement of hippocampal neurogenesis and spatial memory depends on ovarian hormone status in middle age.

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N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activity and estradiol: separate regulation of cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of adult female meadow vole.

scientific article published in November 2003

Naloxone facilitates spatial learning in a water-maze task in female, but not male, adult nonbreeding meadow voles.

scientific article published in February 1994

Neonatal S100B protein levels after prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

scientific article published on 28 September 2009

Neural androgen receptors affect the number of surviving new neurons in the adult dentate gyrus of male mice.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Neurogenesis

scientific article published on 15 January 2006

Neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the adult tree shrew is regulated by psychosocial stress and NMDA receptor activation

scientific article published in April 1997

Neuronal Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) and Astrocytic Gonadotrophin Inhibitory Hormone (GnIH) Immunoreactivity in the Adult Rat Hippocampus.

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

Offspring-exposure reduces depressive-like behaviour in the parturient female rat.

scientific article published on 9 August 2008

Optimizing brain performance: Identifying mechanisms of adaptive neurobiological plasticity

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Ovarian hormones, but not fluoxetine, impart resilience within a chronic unpredictable stress model in middle-aged female rats.

scientific article published on 23 March 2016

Ovarian status dictates the neuroinflammatory and behavioral consequences of sub-chronic stress exposure in middle-aged female mice

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Oxytocin has sex-specific effects on social behaviour and hypothalamic oxytocin immunoreactive cells but not hippocampal neurogenesis in adult rats

scientific article published on 21 March 2020

Parity modifies the effects of fluoxetine and corticosterone on behavior, stress reactivity, and hippocampal neurogenesis.

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Paroxetine blunts the corticosterone response to swim-induced stress and increases depressive-like behavior in a rat model of postpartum depression

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

Performance (re-acquisition) of a water-maze task by adult meadow voles: effects of age of initial task acquisition and in utero environment (litter sex-ratio).

scientific article published in August 1994

Perinatal Depression: Embracing Variability toward Better Treatment and Outcomes

scientific article published in April 2019

Perinatal Depression: Heterogeneity of Disease and in Animal Models

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Personalising exercise recommendations for brain health: considerations and future directions

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

Postpartum corticosterone administration reduces dendritic complexity and increases the density of mushroom spines of hippocampal CA3 arbours in dams.

scientific article

Postpartum depression: Etiology, treatment and consequences for maternal care

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

Postpartum fluoxetine increased maternal inflammatory signalling and decreased tryptophan metabolism: Clues for efficacy

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Pregnancy decreases oestrogen receptor alpha expression and pyknosis, but not cell proliferation or survival, in the hippocampus.

scientific article

Premarin has opposing effects on spatial learning, neural activation, and serum cytokine levels in middle-aged female rats depending on reproductive history

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Prenatal alcohol exposure reduces the proportion of newly produced neurons and glia in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus in female rats

scientific article

Prior high corticosterone exposure reduces activation of immature neurons in the ventral hippocampus in response to spatial and nonspatial memory.

scientific article published on 29 November 2014

Prior sexual experience increases hippocampal cell proliferation and decreases risk assessment behavior in response to acute predator odor stress in the male rat.

scientific article published on 8 January 2009

Progesterone treatment normalizes the levels of cell proliferation and cell death in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus after traumatic brain injury

scientific article

Reduction of predator odor-induced anxiety in mice by the neurosteroid 3 alpha-hydroxy-4-pregnen-20-one (3 alpha HP).

scientific article published in May 1994

Relations of hippocampal volume and dentate gyrus width to gonadal hormone levels in male and female meadow voles.

scientific article published in March 1999

Repeated estradiol administration alters different aspects of neurogenesis and cell death in the hippocampus of female, but not male, rats.

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Reproductive experience alters corticosterone and CBG levels in the rat dam.

scientific article published on 9 September 2008

Reproductive experience alters hippocampal neurogenesis during the postpartum period in the dam.

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Reproductive experience differentially affects spatial reference and working memory performance in the mother

scientific article published on 29 June 2005

Reproductive experience does not persistently alter prefrontal cortical-dependent learning but does alter strategy use dependent on estrous phase

scientific article published in July 2013

Reproductive status influences cell proliferation and cell survival in the dentate gyrus of adult female meadow voles: a possible regulatory role for estradiol.

scientific article

Reproductive status influences the survival of new cells in the dentate gyrus of adult male meadow voles.

scientific article published in July 2003

Risk-based decision making in rats: Modulation by sex and amphetamine

scientific article published on 05 July 2020

Role of estradiol withdrawal in 'anhedonic' sucrose consumption: a model of postpartum depression

scientific article published on 28 February 2009

Running wild: neurogenesis in the hippocampus across the lifespan in wild and laboratory-bred Norway rats

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Selective activation of estrogen receptors α and β: Implications for depressive-like phenotypes in female mice exposed to chronic unpredictable stress

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Sex Differences in Maturation and Attrition of Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Sex Differences in Rodent Spontaneous Activity Levels

Sex Hormones and Cognition: Neuroendocrine Influences on Memory and Learning

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Sex and estrous cycle differences in immediate early gene activation in the hippocampus and the dorsal striatum after the cue competition task.

scientific article published on 29 October 2016

Sex and regional differences in estradiol content in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala and hippocampus of adult male and female rats.

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Sex and seasonal differences in the rate of cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of adult wild meadow voles.

scientific article published in March 1999

Sex and strategy use matters for pattern separation, adult neurogenesis, and immediate early gene expression in the hippocampus.

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Sex differences in cell proliferation, cell death and defensive behavior following acute predator odor stress in adult rats

scientific article published in June 2003

Sex differences in cortisol and memory following acute social stress in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Sex differences in dendritic atrophy of CA3 pyramidal neurons in response to chronic restraint stress

scientific article published on December 1997

Sex differences in depression: Insights from clinical and preclinical studies

scientific article published on 02 February 2019

Sex differences in hippocampal cognition and neurogenesis

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Sex differences in neurogenesis and activation of new neurons in response to spatial learning and memory.

scientific article published on 6 December 2012

Sex differences in the brain: Implications for behavioral and biomedical research.

scientific article published in February 2018

Sex differences in the expression and antagonism of swim stress-induced analgesia in deer mice vary with the breeding season.

scientific article published in December 1995

Sex hormones and adult hippocampal neurogenesis: Regulation, implications, and potential mechanisms.

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Sex, drugs, and adult neurogenesis: sex-dependent effects of escalating adolescent cannabinoid exposure on adult hippocampal neurogenesis, stress reactivity, and amphetamine sensitization

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Sex, hormones and neurogenesis in the hippocampus: hormonal modulation of neurogenesis and potential functional implications

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Sex, hormones, and genotype interact to influence psychiatric disease, treatment, and behavioral research

scientific article published on January 2017

Sex-dependent effects of maternal corticosterone and SSRI treatment on hippocampal neurogenesis across development

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Sexually dimorphic spatial learning varies seasonally in two populations of deer mice.

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Sleep deprivation can inhibit adult hippocampal neurogenesis independent of adrenal stress hormones.

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Spatial water maze learning using celestial cues by the meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus.

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Strain differences in neurogenesis and activation of new neurons in the dentate gyrus in response to spatial learning.

scientific article published on 16 October 2010

Stress resilience in females is dependent on ovarian status

scientific article published on 8 August 2015

Stress-induced suppression of hippocampal neurogenesis in adult male rats is altered by prenatal ethanol exposure

scientific article published on July 2010

Structural plasticity of the hippocampus in response to estrogens in female rodents

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Systemic and local administration of estradiol into the prefrontal cortex or hippocampus differentially alters working memory

scientific article published on 26 May 2006

Task difficulty in the Morris water task influences the survival of new neurons in the dentate gyrus.

scientific article published in July 2010

Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, but not estradiol, enhance survival of new hippocampal neurons in adult male rats

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Testosterone has antidepressant-like efficacy and facilitates imipramine-induced neuroplasticity in male rats exposed to chronic unpredictable stress

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

The hormone therapy, Premarin, impairs hippocampus-dependent spatial learning and memory and reduces activation of new granule neurons in response to memory in female rats ⬇️

scientific article published on August 28, 2012

The long and short term effects of motherhood on the brain

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

The maternal 'baby brain' revisited

scientific article published in January 2017

The neural plasticity theory of depression: assessing the roles of adult neurogenesis and PSA-NCAM within the hippocampus.

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

The promises and pitfalls of sex difference research

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

The scientific body of knowledge: Whose body does it serve? A spotlight on women's brain health

scientific article published on 28 December 2020

Upregulation of CB₁ receptor binding in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex promotes proactive stress-coping strategies following chronic stress exposure.

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Voluntary running influences the efficacy of fluoxetine in a model of postpartum depression.

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Why estrogens matter for behavior and brain health

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

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