Area of research
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience · Behavioral Neuroscience
Research interest
Research interests include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.
Medical versus science students: Knowledge, perceptions and learning of core pharmacology concepts.
Evaluation of preclinical antipsychotic models used to support first-in-human clinical trials.
Relevance of polymorphisms in TLR2/4 genes and their association with plasma cytokines for schizophrenia.
Investigating the relationship between Toll-like receptor activity, low-grade inflammation, cognitive deficits, and antipsychotic drug dose in schizophrenia patients: a moderation analysis.
Developing an international concept-based curriculum for pharmacology education: The promise of core concepts and concept inventories.
Depressive and Negative Symptoms in the Early and Established Stages of Schizophrenia: Integrating Structural Brain Alterations, Cognitive Performance, and Plasma Interleukin 6 Levels.
Evaluating student understanding of core pharmacokinetic concepts.
Behavioural, immunological and transcriptomic consequences of post-weaning social isolation and chronic celecoxib administration in mouse.
Defining and unpacking the core concepts of pharmacology: A global initiative.
Genetic and inflammatory effects on childhood trauma and cognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants.
Evaluating the quality of multiple-choice question pilot database: A global educator-created tool for concept-based pharmacology learning.
Direct targets of MEF2C are enriched for genes associated with schizophrenia and cognitive function and are involved in neuron development and mitochondrial function.
Corpus callosum microstructural organization mediates the effects of physical neglect on social cognition in schizophrenia.
Defining and unpacking the core concepts of pharmacology: A global initiative
Identifying the core concepts of pharmacology education: A global initiative.
Early life stress, low-grade systemic inflammation and weaker suppression of the default mode network (DMN) during face processing in Schizophrenia.
Bilateral anterior corona radiata microstructure organisation relates to impaired social cognition in schizophrenia.
Characterization of pain-, anxiety-, and cognition-related behaviors in the complete Freund's adjuvant model of chronic inflammatory pain in Wistar-Kyoto rats.
Social isolation-induced transcriptomic changes in mouse hippocampus impact the synapse and show convergence with human genetic risk for neurodevelopmental phenotypes.
Childhood trauma is associated with altered white matter microstructural organization in schizophrenia.
Corrigendum to 'Childhood trauma is associated with altered white matter microstructural organization in schizophrenia' Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 330 (2023) 111616.
Social isolation-induced transcriptomic changes in mouse hippocampus impact the synapse and show convergence with human genetic risk for neurodevelopmental phenotypes
Direct targets of <i>MEF2C</i> are enriched for genes associated with schizophrenia and cognitive function and are involved in neurogenesis and mitochondrial function
Dual hit mouse model to examine the long-term effects of maternal immune activation and post-weaning social isolation on schizophrenia endophenotypes.
Childhood trauma, IL-6 and weaker suppression of the default mode network (DMN) during theory of mind (ToM) performance in schizophrenia.
Corpus Callosum Microstructural Tract Integrity Relates to Longer Emotion Recognition Reaction Time in People with Schizophrenia.
Characterization of cerebral cortical endocannabinoid levels in a rat inguinal surgery model using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).
Early life Adversity, functional connectivity and cognitive performance in Schizophrenia: The mediating role of IL-6.
Changes in Default-Mode Network Associated With Childhood Trauma in Schizophrenia.
Childhood trauma, parental bonding, and social cognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy adults.