A5023241285- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Family Support in Illness
- Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
- Music Therapy and Health
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018-2024
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
2019-2021
Tufts University
2009-2019
University of Washington
2017
Columbia University
2017
Harvard University
2017
Dalhousie University
2017
Massachusetts General Hospital
2017
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2017
Hudson Institute
2017
Maternal mood disorders such as depression and chronic anxiety can negatively affect the lives of not only mothers, but also partners, offspring, future generations. Chronic exposure to psychosocial stress is common in postpartum one strongest predictors social conflict. The objective current study was evaluate effects (CSS) during lactation on maternal behavior (which consists care aggression toward a novel conspecific) lactating rats, well growth dams their offspring. It hypothesized that...
Background Due to its potent effects on social behavior, including maternal oxytocin has been identified as a potential mediator of postpartum depression and anxiety. The objective this study was examine the relationship between peripartum synthetic administration development depressive anxiety disorders within first year postpartum. We hypothesized that women exposed would have reduced risk compared with those without any exposure. Methods Population-based data available through...
Depression and anxiety can be severely detrimental to the health of both affected woman her offspring. In a rodent model postpartum depression anxiety, chronic social stress exposure during lactation induces deficits in maternal care increases anxiety. Here, we extend previous findings by expanding behavioral analyses, assessing lactation, examining several neural systems within amygdalar hypothalamic regions involved control response expression that may mediating changes stressed dams....
Abstract Sex differences in human cognitive performance are well characterized. However, the neural correlates of these remain elusive. This issue may be clarified using nonhuman primates, for which sociocultural influences minimized. We used marmoset ( Callithrix jacchus ) to investigate sex two aspects executive function: reversal learning and intradimensional/extradimensional (ID/ED) set shifting. Stress reactivity motor function were also assessed. In agreement with literature, females...
While it has often been speculated that prior reproductive experience improves subsequent maternal care, few studies have examined specific changes in behavior during a first versus second lactation.During lactation mothers display heightened aggression toward male intruders, purportedly to protect vulnerable young.In the current study, was primiparous and agematched, multiparous females on postpartum days 5 (PPD5) PPD15.Expression of oxytocin (OXT), receptor (OXT-R), arginine vasopressin...
Exposure to chronic stress is a reliable predictor of depressive disorders, and social common ethologically relevant stressor in both animals humans. However, many animal models depression were developed males are not applicable or effective studies postpartum females. Recent have reported significant effects during lactation, an stressor, on maternal behavior, growth, behavioral neuroendocrinology. This manuscript will describe this paradigm using repeated exposure lactating dam novel male...
Latina mothers, who have one of the highest fertility rates among ethnic groups in United States (US), often experience discrimination. Psychosocial influences during pregnancy, such as discrimination stress, promotes inflammation. However, role epigenetic markers inflammation a mediator between, and predictor of, maternal stress neuropsychiatric outcomes has not been extensively studied. The current study investigates DNA methylation at FOXP3 Treg-cell-specific demethylated region (TSDR),...