

THE NEIGH LAB
Specializing in: Psychoneuroendocrinology and Psychoneuroimmunology
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Neuroendocrine drivers of risk and resilience: The influence of metabolism & mitochondria.
By: Turkson S, Kloster A, Hamilton PJ, Neigh GN.
Front Neuroendocrinol. 2019 Jul; 54:100770.
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Traumatic stress history interacts with sex and chronic peripheral inflammation to alter mitochondrial function of synaptosomes.
By: Shaw GA, Hyer MM, Targett I, Council KR, Dyer SK, Turkson S, Burns CM, Neigh GN.
Brain Behav Immun. 2020 May 7: S0889-1591(20)30167-7.
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Experimental design and analysis for consideration of sex as a biological variable.
By: Diester CM, Banks ML, Neigh GN, Negus SS.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2019 Dec; 44(13):2159-2162.
High Fructose Diet Induces Sex-specific Modifications in Synaptic Respiration and Affective-like Behaviors in Rats.
By: Kloster A, Hyer MM, Dyer S, Salome-Sanchez C, Neigh GN.
Neuroscience. 2019 Dec 24: S0306-4522(19)30829-2.
Chronic repeated predatory stress induces resistance to quinine adulteration of ethanol in male mice.
By: Shaw GA, Bent MAM, Council KR, Pais AC, Amstadter A, Wolstenholme JT, Miles MF, Neigh GN.
Behav Brain Res. 2020 Mar 16; 382:112500.
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Chronic adolescent stress sex-specifically alters the hippocampal transcriptome in adulthood.
By: Rowson SA, Bekhbat M, Kelly SD, Binder EB, Hyer MM, Shaw G, Bent MA, Hodes G, Tharp G, Weinshenker D, Qin Z, Neigh GN.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2019 Jun; 44(7):1207-1215.
Sex Differences in Neurocognitive Function in Adults with HIV: Patterns, Predictors, and Mechanisms.
By: Rubin LH, Neigh GN, Sundermann EE, Xu Y, Scully EP, Maki PM.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2019 Sep 14; 21(10):94.
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Chronic adolescent stress sex-specifically alters central and peripheral neuro-immune reactivity in rats.
By: Bekhbat M, Howell PA, Rowson SA, Kelly SD, Tansey MG, Neigh GN.
Brain Behav Immun. 2019 Feb; 76:248-257
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Adolescent maturation of the prefrontal cortex: Role of stress and sex in shaping adult risk for compromise.
By: Shaw GA, Dupree JL, Neigh GN.
Genes Brain Behav. 2020 Mar; 19(3):e12626.
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Sex Differences in Synaptic Plasticity: Hormones and Beyond.
By: Hyer MM, Phillips LL, Neigh GN.
Front Mol Neurosci. 2018 Jul 31; 11:266.
Locomotor sensitization to cocaine in adolescent and adult female Wistar rats.
By: Rowson SA, Foster SL, Weinshenker D, Neigh GN.
Behav Brain Res. 2018 Sep 3; 349:158-162.
Reduced marker of vascularization in the anterior hippocampus in a female monkey model of depression.
By: Kalidindi A, Kelly SD, Singleton KS, Guzman D, Merrill L, Willard SL, Shively CA, Neigh GN.
Physiol Behav. 2017 Apr 1; 172:12-15.
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Neural effects of inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and HIV: Parallel, perpendicular, or progressive?
By: Nemeth CL, Bekhbat M, Neigh GN.
Neuroscience. 2015 Aug 27; 302:165-73.
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High-fructose diet during periadolescent development increases depressive-like behavior and remodels the hypothalamic transcriptome in male rats.
By: Harrell CS, Burgado J, Kelly SD, Johnson ZP, Neigh GN.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015; 62:252-64
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Microglial activation occurs in the absence of anxiety-like behavior following microembolic stroke in female, but not male, rats.
By: Nemeth CL.; Reddy C; Bekhbat M; Bailey J. Neigh GN.
J Neuroinflamm; 2014 Nov 6. 11(1):174.
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Development of the HPA axis: where and when do sex differences manifest?
By: Panagiotakopoulos L, Neigh GN.
Front Neuroendocrinol. 2014 Aug; 35(3):285-302.
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Stress-induced sex differences: adaptations mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor.
By: Bourke CH, Harrell CS, Neigh GN.
Horm Behav. 2012 Aug; 62(3):210-8.
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Behavioral effects of chronic adolescent stress are sustained and sexually dimorphic.
By: Bourke CH, Neigh GN.
Horm Behav. 2011 Jun; 60(1):112-20.
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