Area of research
Behavioral Neuroscience · Biological Psychiatry
Research interest
Research interests include Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis.
Short-chain fatty acids as modulators of redox signaling in health and disease
Risk factors for postpartum relapse in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of psychosocial stress and the biological stress system
Increased maternal inflammation and poorer infant neurobehavioural competencies in women with a history of major depressive disorder from the psychiatry research and motherhood – Depression (PRAM-D) study
Chronic stress followed by social isolation promotes depressive-like behaviour, alters microglial and astrocyte biology and reduces hippocampal neurogenesis in male mice
The Anti-Inflammatory Role of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Metabolites in Pre-Clinical Models of Psychiatric, Neurodegenerative, and Neurological Disorders
The type of stress matters: repeated injection and permanent social isolation stress in male mice have a differential effect on anxiety- and depressive-like behaviours, and associated biological alterations
Do different types of stress differentially alter behavioural and neurobiological outcomes associated with depression in rodent models? A systematic review
Chronic stress induces significant gene expression changes in the prefrontal cortex alongside alterations in adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Glucocorticoid Resistance: Is It a Requisite for Increased Cytokine Production in Depression? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Antenatal depression programs cortisol stress reactivity in offspring through increased maternal inflammation and cortisol in pregnancy: The Psychiatry Research and Motherhood – Depression (PRAM-D) Study
Intergenerational transmission of depression: clinical observations and molecular mechanisms
Persistent fatigue induced by interferon-alpha: a novel, inflammation-based, proxy model of chronic fatigue syndrome
Replicable and Coupled Changes in Innate and Adaptive Immune Gene Expression in Two Case-Control Studies of Blood Microarrays in Major Depressive Disorder
Rescue of IL-1β-induced reduction of human neurogenesis by omega-3 fatty acids and antidepressants
Interferon-Alpha Reduces Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Increases Apoptosis via Activation of Distinct STAT1-Dependent Mechanisms
Depletion of adult neurogenesis using the chemotherapy drug temozolomide in mice induces behavioural and biological changes relevant to depression
Formin 2 links neuropsychiatric phenotypes at young age to an increased risk for dementia
The relationship between salivary C-reactive protein and cognitive function in children aged 11–14 years: Does psychopathology have a moderating effect?
Trained innate immunity: a salient factor in the pathogenesis of neuroimmune psychiatric disorders
Prenatal maternal depression is associated with offspring inflammation at 25 years: a prospective longitudinal cohort study
Immune mechanisms linked to depression via oxidative stress and neuroprogression
The role of inflammatory cytokines as key modulators of neurogenesis
Cortisol and Inflammatory Biomarkers Predict Poor Treatment Response in First Episode Psychosis
Molecular mechanisms in the regulation of adult neurogenesis during stress
Insufficient glucocorticoid signaling and elevated inflammation in coronary heart disease patients with comorbid depression
Neuroimmune and neuroendocrine abnormalities in depression: two sides of the same coin
Crosstalk between endocannabinoid and immune systems: a potential dysregulation in depression?
Circadian and Homeostatic Modulation of Functional Connectivity and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Humans under Normal Entrained Conditions
Antidepressant Compounds Can Be Both Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory in Human Hippocampal Cells
Cortisol awakening response and diurnal cortisol among children at elevated risk for schizophrenia: Relationship to psychosocial stress and cognition