Peña, Catherine J.

Ventral hippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens regulate susceptibility to depression

Bagot, R. C., Parise, E. M., Peña, C. J., Zhang, H.-X., Maze, I., Chaudhury, D., Persaud, B., Cachope, R., Bolaños-Guzmán, C. A., Cheer, J. F., et al. (2015) · Nature Communications

Treatment of Major DepressionNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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Early life stress confers lifelong stress susceptibility in mice via ventral tegmental area OTX2

Peña, C. J., Kronman, H. G., Walker, D. M., Cates, H. M., Bagot, R. C., Purushothaman, I., Issler, O., Loh, Y.-H. E., Leong, T., Kiraly, D. D., et al. (2017) · Science

Stress Responses and CortisolNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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Epigenetic basis of mental illness

Nestler, E. J., Peña, C. J., Kundakovic, M., Mitchell, A., & Akbarian, S. (2016) · The Neuroscientist

Epigenetics and DNA MethylationStress Responses and Cortisol

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Circuit-wide Transcriptional Profiling Reveals Brain Region-Specific Gene Networks Regulating Depression Susceptibility

Bagot, R. C., Cates, H. M., Purushothaman, I., Lorsch, Z. S., Walker, D. M., Wang, J., Huang, X., Schlüter, O. M., Maze, I., Peña, C. J., et al. (2016) · Neuron

Treatment of Major DepressionNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

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β-catenin mediates stress resilience through Dicer1/microRNA regulation

Dias, C., Feng, J., Sun, H., Shao, N. Y., Mazei-Robison, M. S., Damez-Werno, D., Scobie, K., Bagot, R., LaBonté, B., Ribeiro, E., et al. (2014) · Nature

Resilience and Mental HealthStress Responses and Cortisol

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Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors

Heller, E. A., Cates, H. M., Peña, C. J., Sun, H., Shao, N., Feng, J., Golden, S. A., Herman, J. P., Walsh, J. J., Mazei-Robison, M., et al. (2014) · Nature Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorEpigenetics and DNA Methylation

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Early life stress alters transcriptomic patterning across reward circuitry in male and female mice

Peña, C. J., Smith, M., Ramakrishnan, A., Cates, H. M., Bagot, R. C., Kronman, H. G., Patel, B., Chang, A. B., Purushothaman, I., Dudley, J., et al. (2019) · Nature Communications

Stress Responses and CortisolChild Abuse and Trauma

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Epigenetic signaling in psychiatric disorders: stress and depression

Bagot, R. C., Labonté, B., Peña, C. J., & Nestler, E. J. (2014) · Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Epigenetics and DNA MethylationStress Responses and Cortisol

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Epigenetic Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders

Peña, C. J., Bagot, R. C., Labonté, B., & Nestler, E. J. (2014) · Journal of Molecular Biology

Epigenetics and DNA MethylationStress Responses and Cortisol

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Sex-Specific Role for the Long Non-coding RNA LINC00473 in Depression

Issler, O., van der Zee, Y. Y., Ramakrishnan, A., Wang, J., Tan, C., Loh, Y.-H. E., Purushothaman, I., Walker, D. M., Lorsch, Z. S., Hamilton, P. J., et al. (2020) · Neuron

Treatment of Major DepressionCancer-related molecular mechanisms research

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Developmental Timing of the Effects of Maternal Care on Gene Expression and Epigenetic Regulation of Hormone Receptor Levels in Female Rats

Peña, C. J., Neugut, Y. D., & Champagne, F. A. (2013) · Endocrinology

Neuroendocrine regulation and behaviorStress Responses and Cortisol

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Effects of maternal care on the development of midbrain dopamine pathways and reward-directed behavior in female offspring

Peña, C. J., Neugut, Y. D., Calarco, C. A., & Champagne, F. A. (2014) · European Journal of Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeuroendocrine regulation and behavior

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Targeted Epigenetic Remodeling of the Cdk5 Gene in Nucleus Accumbens Regulates Cocaine- and Stress-Evoked Behavior

Heller, E. A., Hamilton, P. J., Burek, D. D., Lombroso, S. I., Peña, C. J., Neve, R. L., & Nestler, E. J. (2016) · The Journal of Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorEpigenetics and DNA Methylation

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Long-term behavioral and cell-type-specific molecular effects of early life stress are mediated by H3K79me2 dynamics in medium spiny neurons

Kronman, H., Torres-Berrío, A., Sidoli, S., Issler, O., Godino, A., Ramakrishnan, A., Mews, P., Lardner, C. K., Parise, E. M., Walker, D. M., et al. (2021) · Nature Neuroscience

Stress Responses and CortisolEpigenetics and DNA Methylation

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Environmental programming of susceptibility and resilience to stress in adulthood in male mice

Peña, C. J., Nestler, E. J., & Bagot, R. C. (2019) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Stress Responses and CortisolChild Abuse and Trauma

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Progress in Epigenetics of Depression

Peña, C. J., & Nestler, E. J. (2018) · Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science

Epigenetics and DNA MethylationStress Responses and Cortisol

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Aberrant H3.3 dynamics in NAc promote vulnerability to depressive-like behavior

Lepack, A. E., Bagot, R. C., Peña, C. J., Loh, Y.-H. E., Farrelly, L. A., Lu, Y., Powell, S. K., Lorsch, Z. S., Issler, O., Cates, H. M., et al. (2016) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Genomics and Chromatin DynamicsTreatment of Major Depression

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Crystallin Mu in Medial Amygdala Mediates the Effect of Social Experience on Cocaine Seeking in Males but Not in Females

Walker, D. M., Zhou, X., Cunningham, A. M., Ramakrishnan, A., Cates, H. M., Lardner, C. K., Peña, C. J., Bagot, R. C., Issler, O., Van der Zee, Y., et al. (2022) · Biological Psychiatry

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeuroendocrine regulation and behavior

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