PUBLICATIONS

Contribution of the Opioid System to the Antidepressant Effects of Fluoxetine

Elena Carazo-Arias, Phi T. Nguyen, Marley Kass, Hyun Jung Jee, Katherine M. Nautiyal, Valerie Magalong, Lilian Coie, Valentine Andreu, Mark M. Gergues, Huzefa Khalil, Huda Akil, Danusa Mar Arcego , Michael Meaney, Christoph Anacker , Benjamin A. Samuels, John E. Pintar, Irina Morozova, Sergey Kalachikov, Rene Hen.

Biological Psychiatry (2022)

Dentate gyrus activin signaling mediates the antidepressant treatment response.

Gergues MM*, Yohn CN*, Bharadia A, Levinstein M, Samuels BA. (*equal contribution)

Translational Psychiatry (2021) | PDF

Circuit and molecular architecture of a ventral hippocampal network.

Gergues MM*, Han KJ*, Choi H*, Brown B, Clausing KJ, Turner VS, Vainchtein ID, Molofsky AV, Kheirbek MA. (*equal contribution)

Nature Neuroscience (2020) | PDF

Early-life stress alters affective behaviors in adult mice through persistent activation of CRH-BDNF signaling in the oval bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

Hu P, Maita I, Phan ML, Gu E, Kwok C, Dieterich A, Gergues MM, Yohn CN, Wang Y, Zhou JN, Qi XR, Swaab DF, Pang ZP, Lucassen PJ, Roepke TA, Samuels BA.

Translational Psychiatry (2020) | PDF

Behavioral response to fluoxetine in both female and male mice is modulated by dentate gyrus granule cell activity.

Yohn CN, Dieterich A, Maita I, Bazer AS, Diethorn E, Ma D, Gergues MM, Hu P, Samuels BA.

Neurobiology of Stress (2020) | PDF

Chronic stress induces maladaptive behaviors by activating corticotropin-releasing hormone signaling in the mouse oval bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

Hu P, Liu Ji, Maita I, Kwok C, Gu E, Gergues MM, Kelada F, Phan M, Zhou J, Swaab DF, Pang Z, Lucassen PJ, Roepke TA, Samuels BA.

The Journal of Neuroscience (2020) | PDF

Social instability is an effective chronic stress paradigm for both male and female mice.

Yohn CN, Ashamalla SA, Bokka L, Gergues MM, Garino A, & Samuels BA.

Neuropharmacology (2019) | PDF

Nrf2 deletion results in impaired performance in memory tasks and hyperactivity in young and aged mice.

Gergues MM*#, Moiseyenko A*, Saad SZ, Kong A, Wagner GC. (*equal contribution, # corresponding author)

Brain Research (2018) | PDF

HDAC3 inhibitor RGFP966 modulates neuronal memory for vocal communication signals in a songbird model.

Phan ML*, Gergues MM*, Mahidadia S, Jimenez-Castillo J, Vicario DS, Bieszczad KM. (*equal contribution)

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (2017) | PDF

The role of 5-HT receptors in depression.

Yohn CN, Gergues MM, Samuels BA.

Molecular Brain (2017) | PDF