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Evaluation of the Observational Associations and Shared Genetics Between Glaucoma With Depression and Anxiety

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Effects of RhoA on Depression-Like Behavior in Prenatally Stressed Offspring Rats

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An accumbal microcircuit for the transition from acute to chronic pain

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Erasing “bad memories”: reversing aberrant synaptic plasticity as therapy for neurological and psychiatric disorders

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Antipsychotic Drugs Reverse MK801-Inhibited Cell Migration and F-actin Condensation by Modulating the Rho Signaling Pathway in B35 Cells

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Balance between direct and indirect pathways of the nucleus accumbens controls social behavior in micePreprint

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Protection of Tricholoma matsutake and Its Bioactive Components against Cognitive Impairment: Modulating Oxidative Stress, Alleviating Neuroinflammation, and Preserving Synaptic Plasticity

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Chronic Adolescent Restraint Stress Downregulates miRNA-200a Expression in Male and Female C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ Mice

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Advances in research on stress and behavior: special issue, 2020

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Negative emotional behavior during fentanyl abstinence is mediated by adaptations in nucleus accumbens neuron subtypesPreprint

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G protein-biased LPAR1 agonism promotes prototypic antidepressant effectsPreprint

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Nucleus accumbens neuron subtype translatome signatures in socially stressed females

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MeCP2 regulates cell-type-specific functions of depressive-like symptoms in the nucleus accumbens

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A Mentored Pathway into the Sciences for Underrepresented Populations: A Newly Crafted Educational Modality for Women Exploring Career Opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine

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Concurrent maternal stress and THC exposure during pregnancy alters adolescent behavioral outcomes and corticolimbic molecular programsPreprint

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Aging impairs recovery from stress-induced depression in rats possibly by alteration of microRNA-101 expression and Rac1/RhoA pathway in the prefrontal cortexPreprint

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Aging impairs recovery from stress-induced depression in male rats possibly by alteration of microRNA-101 expression and Rac1/RhoA pathway in the prefrontal cortex

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Additional file 3 of Mice carrying a schizophrenia-associated mutation of the Arhgap10 gene are vulnerable to the effects of methamphetamine treatment on cognitive function: association with morphological abnormalities in striatal neurons

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Additional file 4 of Cocaine-induced neuron subtype mitochondrial dynamics through Egr3 transcriptional regulation

Cole, S. L., Chandra, R., Harris, M., Patel, I., Wang, T., Kim, H., Jensen, L., Russo, S. J., Turecki, G., Gancarz, A. M., et al. (2021) · Figshare · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.14880435

Additional file 3 of Cocaine-induced neuron subtype mitochondrial dynamics through Egr3 transcriptional regulation

Cole, S. L., Chandra, R., Harris, M., Patel, I., Wang, T., Kim, H., Jensen, L., Russo, S. J., Turecki, G., Gancarz, A. M., et al. (2021) · Figshare · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.14880432

Additional file 1 of Cocaine-induced neuron subtype mitochondrial dynamics through Egr3 transcriptional regulation

Cole, S. L., Chandra, R., Harris, M., Patel, I., Wang, T., Kim, H., Jensen, L., Russo, S. J., Turecki, G., Gancarz, A. M., et al. (2021) · Figshare · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.14880426

Additional file 2 of Mice carrying a schizophrenia-associated mutation of the Arhgap10 gene are vulnerable to the effects of methamphetamine treatment on cognitive function: association with morphological abnormalities in striatal neurons

Hada, K., Wulaer, B., Nagai, T., Itoh, N., Sawahata, M., Sobue, A., Mizoguchi, H., Mori, D., Kushima, I., Nabeshima, T., et al. (2021) · Figshare · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13633086

Additional file 2 of Cocaine-induced neuron subtype mitochondrial dynamics through Egr3 transcriptional regulation

Cole, S. L., Chandra, R., Harris, M., Patel, I., Wang, T., Kim, H., Jensen, L., Russo, S. J., Turecki, G., Gancarz, A. M., et al. (2021) · Figshare · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.14880429

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