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Maternal Buffering of Infant?s Fear In Typically Developing Rats and In Rat Models for Psychiatric Disorders
(2021)
Social buffering is broadly defined as an individual’s ability to suppress the physiological, behavioral, and/or emotional consequences of adverse events in another individual. A particularly potent and vital form of social ...
The Impact of Child and Adult Stressors on Multiple Sclerosis Biopsychosocial Disease Features
(2022)
Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory demyelinating autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that disproportionately affects people in North America. Although the etiology and cure remain ...
The Road to Identifying Disease Causing Genes: Association Tests, Genotype Imputations, and Sampling Strategies for Sequencing Studies.
(2013)
Technological advances now allow investigators to use sequencing data to identify genetic risk variants for complex diseases. However, it is still expensive to sequence a large sample of individuals. While genotype imputation ...
Cognitive Function, Self-care, and Glycemic Control in Rural Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
(2017)
Cognitive Function, Self-Care, and Glycemic Control in Rural Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Abstract
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) has increased dramatically over the past two decades, particularly among ...
Effects of Sex and Prenatal Stress on Vulnerability to Drugs.
(2012)
The importance of neurodevelopmental events in utero is well established. When these processes are disrupted, the consequences are severe and long-lasting. Such is the case when prenatal growth overlaps with maternal ...
The Neurosteroids Allopregnanolone and DHEA Modulate Neurocircuits implicated in Emotion Regulation and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
(2013)
The neurosteroids dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and allopregnanolone are integral components of the stress response and exert positive modulatory effects on emotion in human and animal studies. Though these antidepressant ...
The Impact of Serotonin Transporter Gene Variation on Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Goal-Directed Cognition
(2011)
In order to enable goal-directed behavior in a dynamically changing environment, the human brain must meet two competing requirements: (1) the goal representations must be stably and robustly maintained in the face of ...