2019 Student/Postdoc Travel Award Recipients Publications:
Region-specific Effects of Maternal Separation on Perineuronal Net and Parvalbumin-expressing Interneuron Formation in Male and Female Rats. Kelsea R.Gildawie, Jennifer A.Honeycutt, Heather C.Brenhouse. Department of Psychology, Developmental Neuropsychobiology Laboratory, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neuroscience, Volume 428, 21 January 2020, Pages 23-37
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.12.010
Preschool Language Ability Is Predicted by Toddler Hand Preference Trajectories. Developmental Psychology. Gonzalez, S. L., Campbell, J. M., Marcinowski, E. C., Michel, G. F., Coxe, S., & Nelson, E. L. (2020, January 30). Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000900
Student’s current position (Sandy L. Gonzalez): Research Scientist at New York University
Altered motor development following late gestational alcohol and cannabinoid exposure in rats. Breit, K. R., Zamudio, B. & Thomas, J. D. (2019). Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 73, 31-41. doi: 10.1016/ntt.2019.03.005 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892036218301004?via%3Dihub
The effects of alcohol and cannabinoid exposure during the brain growth spurt on behavioral development in rats. Breit, K. R., Zamudio, B. & Thomas, J. D. (2019).[special issue]. Birth Defects Research, 111(12), 760-774. doi: 10.1002/bdr2.1487
Kristin Breit has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Biopsychology position at West Chester University! She will be continuing to research the effects of prenatal cannabis, nicotine, and alcohol exposure on brain and behavioral development.
Female and male rats readily consume and prefer oxycodone to water in a chronic, continuous access, two-bottle oral voluntary paradigm. Zanni G, DeSalle MJ, Deutsch HM, Barr GA, Eisch AJ. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine,Philadelphia, PA, USA. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32001238
PUBERTY ALLOWS REVERSIBILITY OF THE EFFECTS OF EARLY LIFE DEPRIVATION FOR POST-INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILDREN, Gunnar, M.R., DePasquale, C.E., Reid, B.M., Donzella, B., & Miller, B.S. (2019) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(48), 23984-23988. doi:10.1073/pnas.1909699116
2018 Student/Postdoc Travel Award Recipients Publications:
Altered corticolimbic connectivity reveals sex-specific adolescent outcomes in a rat model of early life adversity
Northeastern University, United States McLean Hospital, United States
2016 Student/Postdoc Travel Award Recipients Publications:
| Yee JR, Kenkel WM, Kulkarni P, Moore K, Perkeybile AM, Toddes S, Amacker JA, Carter CS, Ferris CF. BOLD fMRI in awake prairie voles: A platform for translational social and affective neuroscience. Neuroimage. 2016 Sep;138:221-232. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.046. Epub 2016 May 27. PubMed PMID: 27238726; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4933013. |
| Kopala-Sibley DC, Jelinek C, Kessel EM, Frost A, Allmann AES, Klein DN. Parental depressive history, parenting styles, and child psychopathology over 6 years: The contribution of each parent’s depressive history to the other’s parenting styles. Dev Psychopathol. 2017 Oct;29(4):1469-1482. doi: 10.1017/S0954579417000396. Epub 2017 Apr 17. PubMed PMID: 28414019; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5755697. |
| Callaghan BL, Tottenham N. The Neuro-Environmental Loop of Plasticity: A Cross-Species Analysis of Parental Effects on Emotion Circuitry Development Following Typical and Adverse Caregiving. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 Jan;41(1):163-76. doi: 10.1038/npp.2015.204. Epub 2015 Jul 21. Review. PubMed PMID: 26194419; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4677125. |
| Welch MG, Firestein MR, Austin J, Hane AA, Stark RI, Hofer MA, Garland M, Glickstein SB, Brunelli SA, Ludwig RJ, Myers MM. Family Nurture Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit improves social-relatedness, attention, and neurodevelopment of preterm infants at 18 months in a randomized controlled trial. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2015 Nov;56(11):1202-11. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12405. Epub 2015 Mar 11. PubMed PMID: 25763525. |
| Preciado A, D’Anna-Hernandez K. Acculturative stress is associated with trajectory of anxiety symptoms during pregnancy in Mexican-American women. J Anxiety Disord. 2017 May;48:28-35. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.10.005. Epub 2016 Oct 7. PubMed PMID: 27780654; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5737703. |
| Kan JM, Richardson R. Ghosts of mother’s past: Previous maternal stress leads to altered maternal behavior following a subsequent pregnancy in rats. Dev Psychobiol. 2018 Jan 22. doi: 10.1002/dev.21609. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29355916. |
| Kan JM, Callaghan BL, Richardson R. A mother’s past can predict her offspring’s future: Previous maternal separation leads to the early emergence of adult-like fear behavior in subsequent male infant rat offspring. Behav Neurosci. 2016 Oct;130(5):511-20. doi: 10.1037/bne0000157. Epub 2016 Aug 18. PubMed PMID: 27537827. |
| Doherty TS, Forster A, Roth TL. Global and gene-specific DNA methylation alterations in the adolescent amygdala and hippocampus in an animal model of caregiver maltreatment. Behav Brain Res. 2016 Feb 1;298(Pt A):55-61. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.05.028. Epub 2015 May 28. PubMed PMID: 26027495; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4662928. |
| Cyr M, Yang X, Horga G, Marsh R. Abnormal fronto-striatal activation as a marker of threshold and subthreshold Bulimia Nervosa. Hum Brain Mapp. 2018 Jan 10. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23955. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29322687. |
| Kahle S, Miller JG, Lopez M, Hastings PD. Sympathetic recovery from anger is associated with emotion regulation. J Exp Child Psychol. 2016 Feb;142:359-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.10.004. Epub 2015 Nov 17. PubMed PMID: 26597139. |
| Caulfield JI, Caruso MJ, Michael KC, Bourne RA, Chirichella NR, Klein LC, Craig T, Bonneau RH, August A, Cavigelli SA. Peri-adolescent asthma symptoms cause adult anxiety-related behavior and neurobiological processes in mice. Behav Brain Res. 2017 May 30;326:244-255. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.02.046. Epub 2017 Mar 8. PubMed PMID: 28284954; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5497519. |
| Pusalkar M, Ghosh S, Jaggar M, Husain BF, Galande S, Vaidya VA. Acute and Chronic Electroconvulsive Seizures (ECS) Differentially Regulate the Expression of Epigenetic Machinery in the Adult Rat Hippocampus. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2016 Sep 21;19(9). pii: pyw040. doi: 10.1093/ijnp/pyw040. Print 2016 Sep. PubMed PMID: 27207907; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5043647. |
| Gobinath AR, Richardson RJ, Chow C, Workman JL, Lieblich SE, Barr AM, Galea LAM. Voluntary running influences the efficacy of fluoxetine in a model of postpartum depression. Neuropharmacology. 2018 Jan;128:106-118. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.09.017. Epub 2017 Sep 28. PubMed PMID: 28964735. |
| Herrington JA, Del Rosso LA, Capitanio JP. Biobehavioral consequences of prenatal exposure to a matrilineal overthrow and relocation in captive infant rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys. Am J Primatol. 2016 Sep;78(9):895-903. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22557. Epub 2016 May 4. PubMed PMID: 27150125; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5378313. |
| Luikinga SJ, Kim JH, Perry CJ. Developmental perspectives on methamphetamine abuse: Exploring adolescent vulnerabilities on brain and behavior. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2017 Nov 8. pii: S0278-5846(17)30416-5. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.11.010. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 29128447. |
| Popoola DO, Nizhnikov ME, Cameron NM. Strain-specific programming of prenatal ethanol exposure across generations. Alcohol. 2017 May;60:191-199. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2017.01.002. Epub 2017 Jan 4. PubMed PMID: 28433421; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5605132. |
| Vieites V, Nazareth A, Reeb-Sutherland BC, Pruden SM. A new biomarker to examine the role of hippocampal function in the development of spatial reorientation in children: a review. Front Psychol. 2015 Apr 24;6:490. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00490. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 25964770; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4408750. |
| Brown KL, Freeman JH. Retention of eyeblink conditioning in periweanling and adult rats. Dev Psychobiol. 2016 Dec;58(8):1055-1065. doi: 10.1002/dev.21439. Epub 2016 Jun 8. PubMed PMID: 27279383. |
| Nelson EL, Gonzalez SL, Coxe S, Campbell JM, Marcinowski EC, Michel GF. Toddler hand preference trajectories predict 3-year language outcome. Dev Psychobiol. 2017 Nov;59(7):876-887. doi: 10.1002/dev.21560. Epub 2017 Sep 9. PubMed PMID: 28888047; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5630522. |
| Marcinowski EC, Campbell JM, Faldowski RA, Michel GF. Do hand preferences predict stacking skill during infancy? Dev Psychobiol. 2016 Dec;58(8):958-967. doi: 10.1002/dev.21426. Epub 2016 May 10. PubMed PMID: 27163298. |
| Belnap SC, Lickliter R. Coordinated movement is influenced by prenatal light experience in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus virginianus). Behav Brain Res. 2017 Jun 1;327:103-111. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.039. Epub 2017 Mar 27. PubMed PMID: 28359880. |
| Pitula CE, DePasquale CE, Mliner SB, Gunnar MR. Peer Problems Among Postinstitutionalized, Internationally Adopted Children: Relations to Hypocortisolism, Parenting Quality, and ADHD Symptoms. Child Dev. 2017 Nov 8. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12986. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29115672. |
| Perry NB, Dollar JM, Calkins SD, Bell MA. Developmental Cascade and Transactional Associations Among Biological and Behavioral Indicators of Temperament and Maternal Behavior. Child Dev. 2017 May 26. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12842. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28548307; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5702592. |
| Willing J, Cortes LR, Brodsky JM, Kim T, Juraska JM. Innervation of the medial prefrontal cortex by tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive fibers during adolescence in male and female rats. Dev Psychobiol. 2017 Jul;59(5):583-589. doi: 10.1002/dev.21525. Epub 2017 May 31. PubMed PMID: 28561889; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5515298. |
| Cowan CS, Callaghan BL, Richardson R. The effects of a probiotic formulation (Lactobacillus rhamnosus and L. helveticus) on developmental trajectories of emotional learning in stressed infant rats. Transl Psychiatry. 2016 May 31;6(5):e823. doi: 10.1038/tp.2016.94. PubMed PMID: 27244232; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5545650. |
| Drzewiecki CM, Willing J, Juraska JM. Synaptic number changes in the medial prefrontal cortex across adolescence in male and female rats: A role for pubertal onset. Synapse. 2016 Sep;70(9):361-8. doi: 10.1002/syn.21909. Epub 2016 Jun 10. PubMed PMID: 27103097; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4945496. |
| Grassi-Oliveira R, Honeycutt JA, Holland FH, Ganguly P, Brenhouse HC. Cognitive impairment effects of early life stress in adolescents can be predicted with early biomarkers: Impacts of sex, experience, and cytokines. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2016 Sep;71:19-30. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.04.016. Epub 2016 Apr 30. PubMed PMID: 27235636; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5412140. |
| Moser A, Zimmermann L, Dickerson K, Grenell A, Barr R, Gerhardstein P. They can interact, but can they learn? Toddlers’ transfer learning from touchscreens and television. J Exp Child Psychol. 2015 Sep;137:137-55. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.04.002. Epub 2015 May 15. PubMed PMID: 25978678. |
| Bath KG, Manzano-Nieves G, Goodwill H. Early life stress accelerates behavioral and neural maturation of the hippocampus in male mice. Horm Behav. 2016 Jun;82:64-71. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.04.010. Epub 2016 May 4. PubMed PMID: 27155103; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5308418. |
| Mooney-Leber SM, Brummelte S. Neonatal pain and reduced maternal care: Early-life stressors interacting to impact brain and behavioral development. Neuroscience. 2017 Feb 7;342:21-36. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.05.001. Epub 2016 May 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 27167085. |
| Lapp HE, Hunter RG. The dynamic genome: transposons and environmental adaptation in the nervous system. Epigenomics. 2016 Feb;8(2):237-49. doi: 10.2217/epi.15.107. Epub 2016 Jan 21. Review. PubMed PMID: 26791965. |
| VanTieghem MR, Tottenham N. Neurobiological Programming of Early Life Stress: Functional Development of Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry and Vulnerability for Stress-Related Psychopathology. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2017 Apr 25. doi: 10.1007/7854_2016_42. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28439771. |
| Hendrix CL, Stowe ZN, Newport DJ, Brennan PA. Physiological attunement in mother-infant dyads at clinical high risk: The influence of maternal depression and positive parenting. Dev Psychopathol. 2017 Sep 19:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0954579417001158. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28925341. |
| Burris JL, Barry-Anwar RA, Rivera SM. An eye tracking investigation of attentional biases towards affect in young children. Dev Psychol. 2017 Aug;53(8):1418-1427. doi: 10.1037/dev0000345. Epub 2017 May 22. PubMed PMID: 28530439. |
| Burris JL, Barry-Anwar RA, Sims RN, Hagerman RJ, Tassone F, Rivera SM. Children With Fragile X Syndrome Display Threat-Specific Biases Toward Emotion. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2017 Sep;2(6):487-492. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.06.003. Epub 2017 Jun 21. PubMed PMID: 29348038. |
| Nieto SJ, Kosten TA. Female Sprague-Dawley rats display greater appetitive and consummatory responses to alcohol. Behav Brain Res. 2017 Jun 1;327:155-161. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.037. Epub 2017 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 28365196. |
| Zbukvic IC, Park CH, Ganella DE, Lawrence AJ, Kim JH. Prefrontal Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Extinction in Adolescence Compared to Adulthood in Rats. Front Behav Neurosci. 2017 Feb 22;11:32. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00032. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28275342; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5319962. |
| Boomhower SR, Newland MC. Effects of adolescent exposure to methylmercury and d-amphetamine on reversal learning and an extradimensional shift in male mice. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2017 Apr;25(2):64-73. doi: 10.1037/pha0000107. Epub 2017 Mar 13. PubMed PMID: 28287789; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5367946. |
| Boomhower SR, Newland MC. Adolescent methylmercury exposure affects choice and delay discounting in mice. Neurotoxicology. 2016 Dec;57:136-144. doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2016.09.016. Epub 2016 Sep 24. PubMed PMID: 27677934; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5123936. |
| Boomhower SR, Newland MC. Effects of adolescent exposure to methylmercury and d-amphetamine on reversal learning and an extradimensional shift in male mice. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2017 Apr; 25(2): 64–73. Published online 2017 Mar 13. doi: 10.1037/pha0000107 |
| Kott JM, Mooney-Leber SM, Shoubah FA, Brummelte S. Effectiveness of different corticosterone administration methods to elevate corticosterone serum levels, induce depressive-like behavior, and affect neurogenesis levels in female rats. Neuroscience. 2016 Jan 15;312:201-14. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.11.006. Epub 2015 Nov 10. PubMed PMID: 26556064. |
| Blankenship TL, O’Neill M, Deater-Deckard K, Diana RA, Bell MA. Frontotemporal function]al connectivity and executive functions contribute to episodic memory performance. Int J Psychophysiol. 2016 Sep;107:72-82. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.06.014. Epub 2016 Jul 5. PubMed PMID: 27388478; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4986699. |
| Heroux NA, Robinson-Drummer PA, Sanders HR, Rosen JB, Stanton ME. Differential involvement of the medial prefrontal cortex across variants of contextual fear conditioning. Learn Mem. 2017 Jul 17;24(8):322-330. doi: 10.1101/lm.045286.117. Print 2017 Aug. PubMed PMID: 28716952; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5516685. |
| Swann HE, Kempe RB, Van Orden AM, Brumley MR. Serotonergic activation of locomotor behavior and posture in one-day old rats. Behav Brain Res. 2016 Apr 1;302:104-14. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.01.006. Epub 2016 Jan 12. PubMed PMID: 26795091; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4769103. |
| Swann HE, Kauer SD, Allmond JT, Brumley MR. Stimulation of 5-HT2A receptors recovers sensory responsiveness in acute spinal neonatal rats. Behav Neurosci. 2017 Feb;131(1):92-98. doi: 10.1037/bne0000176. Epub 2016 Dec 22. PubMed PMID: 28004950; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5269442. |
| Sun SY, Baker LL, Bradley NS. Ankle muscle tenotomy does not alter ankle flexor muscle recruitment bias during locomotor-related repetitive limb movement in late-stage chick embryos. Dev Psychobiol. 2017 Nov 28. doi: 10.1002/dev.21594. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29193030. |
| Lucchini M, Fifer WP, Sahni R, Signorini MG. Novel heart rate parameters for the assessment of autonomic nervous system function in premature infants. Physiol Meas. 2016 Sep;37(9):1436-46. doi: 10.1088/0967-3334/37/9/1436. Epub 2016 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 27480495; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5021440. |
| Siddiqui S, Fifer WP, Ordonez-Retamar M, Nugent JD, Williams IA. An antenatal marker of neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease. J Perinatol. 2017 Aug;37(8):953-957. doi: 10.1038/jp.2017.59. Epub 2017 May 4. PubMed PMID: 28471442; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5578909. |
| McLaurin KA, Booze RM, Mactutus CF. Progression of temporal processing deficits in the HIV-1 transgenic rat. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 6;6:32831. doi: 10.1038/srep32831. PubMed PMID: 27596023; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5011765. |
| McLaurin KA, Booze RM, Mactutus CF. Evolution of the HIV-1 transgenic rat: utility in assessing the progression of HIV-1-associated neurocognitive disorders. J Neurovirol. 2017 Jul 20. doi: 10.1007/s13365-017-0544-x. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28730408; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5775943. |
| Whedon M, Perry NB, Calkins SD, Bell MA. Changes in frontal EEG coherence across infancy predict cognitive abilities at age 3: The mediating role of attentional control. Dev Psychol. 2016 Sep;52(9):1341-52. doi: 10.1037/dev0000149. Epub 2016 Jul 21. PubMed PMID: 27441486; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5003730. |
| Kao K, Doan SN, St John AM, Meyer JS, Tarullo AR. Salivary cortisol reactivity in preschoolers is associated with hair cortisol and behavioral problems. Stress. 2017 Oct 24:1-8. doi: 10.1080/10253890.2017.1391210. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29065770. |
| Dettmer AM, Murphy AM, Guitarra D, Slonecker E, Suomi SJ, Rosenberg KL, Novak MA, Meyer JS, Hinde K. Cortisol in Neonatal Mother’s Milk Predicts Later Infant Social and Cognitive Functioning in Rhesus Monkeys. Child Dev. 2017 Mar 29. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12783. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28369689. |
| Baker KD, Richardson R. Pharmacological evidence that a failure to recruit NMDA receptors contributes to impaired fear extinction retention in adolescent rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2017 Sep;143:18-26. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.10.014. Epub 2016 Nov 1. PubMed PMID: 27815216. |
| Hendrix CL, Stowe ZN, Newport DJ, Brennan PA. Physiological attunement in mother-infant dyads at clinical high risk: The influence of maternal depression and positive parenting. Dev Psychopathol. 2017 Sep 19:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0954579417001158. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28925341. |
| Vieites V(1), Reeb-Sutherland BC(2). Individual differences in non-clinical maternal depression impact infant affect and behavior during the still-face paradigm across the first year. Infant Behav Dev. 2017 May;47:13-21. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.02.005. Epub 2017 Mar 12. |
| Travaglia A, Bisaz R, Sweet ES, Blitzer RD, Alberini CM. Infantile amnesia reflects a developmental critical period for hippocampal learning. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Sep;19(9):1225-33. doi: 10.1038/nn.4348. Epub 2016 Jul 18. Erratum in: Nat Neurosci. 2017 Jun 27;20(7):1033. PubMed PMID: 27428652; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5003643. |