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A negative correlation between the induction of long-term potentiation and activation of immediate early genes

scientific article published in August 1991

A trip down memory lane about sex differences in the brain

scientific article published on February 2016

Activation of immediate early genes after acute stress.

scientific article published in January 1991

Acute stress and re-exposure to the stressful context suppress spontaneous unit activity in the basolateral amygdala via NMDA receptor activation

scientific article

Acute stress impairs (or induces) synaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) but does not affect paired-pulse facilitation in the stratum radiatum of rat hippocampus

scientific article published on July 1, 1992

Acute stress impairs trace eye blink conditioning in females without altering the unconditioned response

scientific article

Acute stress persistently enhances estrogen levels in the female rat.

scientific article published in December 1999

Acute stress rapidly and persistently enhances memory formation in the male rat.

scientific article

Associative learning increases adult neurogenesis during a critical period ⬇️

scientific article published on December 12, 2010

Associative memory formation increases the observation of dendritic spines in the hippocampus.

scientific article published on January 2003

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-induced gene expression reveals novel actions of VGF in hippocampal synaptic plasticity

scientific article

Can new neurons replace memories lost?

scientific article published on 10 December 2003

Changing the rate and hippocampal dependence of trace eyeblink conditioning: Slow learning enhances survival of new neurons ⬇️

scientific article published on September 29, 2010

Chemotherapy disrupts learning, neurogenesis and theta activity in the adult brain

scientific article

Contribution of stress and gender to exploratory preferences for familiar versus unfamiliar conspecifics

scientific article

Control of interocular suppression as a function of differential image blur

scientific article published on June 1, 1992

Critical brain circuits at the intersection between stress and learning

scientific article

Detection of amblyopia with P-VEP during chloral hydrate sedation

scientific article published in July 1987

Developmental mercury exposure elicits acute hippocampal cell death, reductions in neurogenesis, and severe learning deficits during puberty

scientific article

Distinctive stress effects on learning during puberty

scientific article

Do sex differences in rumination explain sex differences in depression?

scientific article published on January 2017

Early acquisition, but not retention, of the classically conditioned eyeblink response is N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor dependent

scientific article published in October 1996

Effect of adrenalectomy and demedullation on the stress-induced impairment of long-term potentiation

scientific article published on January 1990

Effect of stress and long-term potentiation (LTP) on subsequent LTP and the theta burst response in the dentate gyrus

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

Enhanced glutamatergic neurotransmission facilitates classical conditioning in the freely moving rat.

scientific article published in February 1995

Estrogen and learning: strategy over parsimony

scientific article

Estrogen-mediated effects on depression and memory formation in females

scientific article (2003)

Exposure to inescapable stress persistently facilitates associative and nonassociative learning in rats

scientific article published in December 1994

Female rats learn trace memories better than male rats and consequently retain a greater proportion of new neurons in their hippocampi.

scholarly article

Females do not express learned helplessness like males do.

scientific article published on 22 August 2007

From stem cells to grandmother cells: how neurogenesis relates to learning and memory

scientific article published in September 2008

Glucocorticoids are necessary for enhancing the acquisition of associative memories after acute stressful experience

scientific article

Growth hormone is produced within the hippocampus where it responds to age, sex, and stress

scholarly article

High levels of estrogen enhance associative memory formation in ovariectomized females

scientific article published on August 2004

Hippocampal responses to corticosterone and stress, one of which is the 35,000 M(r) protein, glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase

scientific article

Increased synthesis of two polypeptides in area CA1 of the hippocampus in response to repetitive electrical stimulation

scientific article published in December 1991

Inescapable stress enhances extracellular acetylcholine in the rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex but not the nucleus accumbens or amygdala

scientific article published on October 1996

Inescapable versus escapable shock modulates long-term potentiation in the rat hippocampus.

scientific article published in April 1989

Is there a link between adult neurogenesis and learning?

scientific article

Learning during middle age: a resistance to stress?

scientific article

Learning during motherhood: A resistance to stress

scientific article

Learning during stressful times

scientific article published on March 2004

Learning enhances adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal formation

scientific article

Learning enhances the survival of new neurons beyond the time when the hippocampus is required for memory

scientific article

Learning increases the survival of newborn neurons provided that learning is difficult to achieve and successful

scientific article published on 18 October 2010

Learning to learn: theta oscillations predict new learning, which enhances related learning and neurogenesis

scientific article

Long-term potentiation is associated with increased [3H]AMPA binding in rat hippocampus

scientific article

Long-term potentiation: what's learning got to do with it?

scientific article

MAP Train My Brain: Meditation Combined with Aerobic Exercise Reduces Stress and Rumination While Enhancing Quality of Life in Medical Students

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

MAP Training My Brain™: Meditation Plus Aerobic Exercise Lessens Trauma of Sexual Violence More Than Either Activity Alone.

scientific article

MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity

scientific article

Males and females respond differently to controllability and antidepressant treatment

scientific article

Memory traces of trace memories: neurogenesis, synaptogenesis and awareness

scientific article published on May 2004

Mental and Physical (MAP) Training: a neurogenesis-inspired intervention that enhances health in humans

scientific article

Mental and physical skill training increases neurogenesis via cell survival in the adolescent hippocampus

scientific article published on 13 August 2016

Moderate drinking? Alcohol consumption significantly decreases neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus

scientific article

NMDA receptor antagonism in the lateral/basolateral but not central nucleus of the amygdala prevents the induction of facilitated learning in response to stress

scientific article

Neurogenesis and helplessness are mediated by controllability in males but not in females

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Neurogenesis and learning: acquisition and asymptotic performance predict how many new cells survive in the hippocampus

scientific article published on 6 April 2007

Neurogenesis and the spacing effect: learning over time enhances memory and the survival of new neurons

scientific article published on 10 May 2007

Neurogenesis in adulthood: a possible role in learning

scientific article

Neurogenesis in the adult is involved in the formation of trace memories

scientific article (publication date: 15 March 2001)

Neurogenesis may relate to some but not all types of hippocampal-dependent learning

scientific article

Neurogenesis, learning and associative strength

scientific article published on June 2008

New spines, new memories

scientific article published on April 2004

Once a mother, always a mother: Maternal experience protects females from the negative effects of stress on learning ⬇️

scientific article published on December 19, 2011

Opioid antagonist eliminates the stress-induced impairment of long-term potentiation (LTP).

scientific article

Opposite effects of stressful experience on memory formation in males versus females

scientific article

P100 amplitude variability of the pattern visual evoked potential

scientific article published on 01 July 1986

Physical Skill Training Increases the Number of Surviving New Cells in the Adult Hippocampus ⬇️

scientific article published on February 20, 2013

Postnatal decrease in transforming growth factor alpha is associated with enlarged ventricles, deficient amygdaloid vasculature and performance deficits

scientific article published in January 2000

Preparing for adulthood: thousands upon thousands of new cells are born in the hippocampus during puberty, and most survive with effortful learning

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Prozac during puberty: distinctive effects on neurogenesis as a function of age and sex.

scientific article published on 02 July 2009

Rapid estrogen signaling in the brain: implications for the fine-tuning of neuronal circuitry

scientific article

Recording pattern visual evoked potentials under chloral hydrate sedation

scientific article published on 01 May 1986

Rumination in major depressive disorder is associated with impaired neural activation during conflict monitoring.

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Saving new brain cells.

scientific article published in March 2009

Selective increase of AMPA binding to the AMPA/quisqualate receptor in the hippocampus in response to acute stress

scientific article

Sex differences and opposite effects of stress on dendritic spine density in the male versus female hippocampus.

scientific article

Sex differences in learning processes of classical and operant conditioning.

scientific article

Sexual Conspecific Aggressive Response (SCAR): A Model of Sexual Trauma that Disrupts Maternal Learning and Plasticity in the Female Brain

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Sexual trauma and the female brain

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Significant life events and the shape of memories to come: a hypothesis

scientific article

Stages of estrous mediate the stress-induced impairment of associative learning in the female rat ⬇️

scientific article published on February 16, 1998

Stress enhances excitatory trace eyeblink conditioning and opposes acquisition of inhibitory conditioning

scientific article published in December 1998

Stress facilitates classical conditioning in males, but impairs classical conditioning in females through activational effects of ovarian hormones ⬇️

scientific article published on March 31, 1998

Stress persistently increases NMDA receptor-mediated binding of [3H]PDBu (a marker for protein kinase C) in the amygdala, and re-exposure to the stressful context reactivates the increase

scientific article

Stress, anxiety, and dendritic spines: what are the connections?

scientific article published on 20 April 2012

Stress-induced facilitation of classical conditioning

scientific article

Stress-induced sensitization and facilitated learning require NMDA receptor activation ⬇️

scientific article published on March 7, 1995

Stressful Life Memories Relate to Ruminative Thoughts in Women With Sexual Violence History, Irrespective of PTSD

Stressful experience and learning across the lifespan

scientific article

Stressful experience has opposite effects on dendritic spines in the hippocampus of cycling versus masculinized females.

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Superimposition of a cartoon program as an aid in recording pattern visual evoked potentials in children.

scientific article

Suppression and the pattern visual evoked potential

scientific article published on 01 September 1986

Taking neurogenesis out of the lab and into the world with MAP Train My Brain™

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Temporal discontiguity is neither necessary nor sufficient for learning-induced effects on adult neurogenesis

scientific article

Testosterone in utero and at birth dictates how stressful experience will affect learning in adulthood

scientific article

The Prefrontal Cortex Communicates with the Amygdala to Impair Learning after Acute Stress in Females but Not in Males ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

The Role of the Hippocampus in Trace Conditioning: Temporal Discontinuity or Task Difficulty? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2001

The basolateral nucleus of the amygdala is necessary to induce the opposing effects of stressful experience on learning in males and females

scientific article published on May 2008

The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is critically involved in enhancing associative learning after stressful experience

scientific article

The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis modulates learning after stress in masculinized but not cycling females

scientific article published on June 2008

The contribution of adrenal and reproductive hormones to the opposing effects of stress on trace conditioning in males versus females

scientific article published in February 2001

The contribution of stressor intensity, duration, and context to the stress-induced facilitation of associative learning

scientific article published in July 1997

The hippocampus is necessary for enhancements and impairments of learning following stress

scientific article

The modulation of Pavlovian memory

scientific article

The motirod: a novel physical skill task that enhances motivation to learn and thereby increases neurogenesis especially in the female hippocampus

scientific article published on 24 December 2014

The mouse antiphosphotyrosine immunoreactive kinase, TIK, is indistinguishable from the double-stranded RNAdependent, interferon-induced protein kinase, PKR ⬇️

scientific article published on October 11, 1993

The neuropeptide VGF produces antidepressant-like behavioral effects and enhances proliferation in the hippocampus

scientific article

The opposite effects of stress on dendritic spines in male vs. female rats are NMDA receptor-dependent

scientific article

The stressed female brain: neuronal activity in the prelimbic but not infralimbic region of the medial prefrontal cortex suppresses learning after acute stress

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Trace conditioning and the hippocampus: the importance of contiguity.

scientific article published on August 2006

Training your brain: Do mental and physical (MAP) training enhance cognition through the process of neurogenesis in the hippocampus? ⬇️

scientific article published on August 5, 2012

Transcriptional profiling reveals regulated genes in the hippocampus during memory formation.

scientific article

Transient and persistent consequences of acute stress on long-term potentiation (LTP), synaptic efficacy, theta rhythms and bursts in area CA1 of the hippocampus

scientific article published in July 1997

Unpredictable and uncontrollable stress impairs neuronal plasticity in the rat hippocampus

scientific article published on May 1990

Use it or lose it: how neurogenesis keeps the brain fit for learning

scientific article (publication date: 14 February 2012)

Vasopressin induction of long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate gyrus

scientific article

d-cycloserine reverses the detrimental effects of stress on learning in females and enhances retention in males

scientific article published on 8 August 2009

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