2024
Early adversity causes sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice
Islam R, White J, Arefin T, Mehta S, Liu X, Polis B, Giuliano L, Ahmed S, Bowers C, Zhang J, Kaffman A. Early adversity causes sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice. Biology Of Sex Differences 2024, 15: 39. PMID: 38715106, PMCID: PMC11075329, DOI: 10.1186/s13293-024-00616-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLateral entorhinal cortexContextual fear conditioningDorsal hippocampusHippocampal developmentSex differencesFear conditioningEarly adversityLimited beddingSevere deficitsModel of early adversitySex-specific deficitsReelin-positive neuronsPerforant pathwayReelin-positive cellsDiffusion magnetic resonance imagingEx vivo diffusion magnetic resonance imagingContextual freezingContextual memoryAdolescent miceHippocampal functionLife adversityEntorhinal cortexHippocampusDeficitsAdolescent males
2011
Early-life stress, corpus callosum development, hippocampal volumetrics, and anxious behavior in male nonhuman primates
Jackowski A, Perera TD, Abdallah CG, Garrido G, Tang CY, Martinez J, Mathew SJ, Gorman JM, Rosenblum LA, Smith EL, Dwork AJ, Shungu DC, Kaffman A, Gelernter J, Coplan JD, Kaufman J. Early-life stress, corpus callosum development, hippocampal volumetrics, and anxious behavior in male nonhuman primates. Psychiatry Research 2011, 192: 37-44. PMID: 21377844, PMCID: PMC4090111, DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.11.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAnxietyBehavior, AnimalBrain MappingCorpus CallosumCross-Sectional StudiesFearGene FrequencyGenotypeHippocampusImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLinear ModelsMacaca radiataMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleSerotonin Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsStress, PsychologicalConceptsBrain developmentNonhuman primatesCorpus callosum measurementsMale bonnet monkeysMiddle temporal gyrus volumeCorpus callosum developmentMale nonhuman primatesEarly life stressReduced hippocampusCorpus callosumMRI measuresBonnet monkeysPsychiatric disordersMRI scansHippocampal volumetricsSerotonin transporter genotypeCC sizeStress paradigmHippocampusStress reactivityMorphometry assessmentBehavioral assessmentTransporter genotypeAnxious behaviorEarly stress