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Rashford RR, DeBerardine M, Kim HJJ, Arzouni N, Hirschfield LW, Oke OM, Bennett SN, Peña CJ (2024). Early-life stress alters postnatal chromatin development in the nucleus accumbens. Preprint on bioRxiv
Geiger LT*, Balouek JA*, Farrelly LA, Chen AS, Tang M, Bennett SN, Nestler EJ, Garcia BA, Maze I, Peña CJ (2024). Early-life stress alters chromatin modifications in VTA to prime stress sensitivity. Preprint on bioRxiv
Bennett SN*, Chang AB*, Rogers FD, Jones P, Peña CJ (2024). Thyroid hormones mediate the impact of early-life stress on ventral tegmental area gene expression and behavior. 2023 preprint on bioRxiv and Hormones and Behavior
Parel ST, Bennett SN, Cheng CJ, Timmermans OC, Fiori LM, Turecki G, Peña CJ (2023). Transcriptional signatures of early-life stress and antidepressant treatment efficacy. PNAS
Willmore L✝, Minerva AR✝, Engelhardt B✝, Murugan M, McMannon B, Oak N, Thiberge SY, Peña CJ*, Witten IB* (2023). Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in VTA dopamine neurons. Neuron
Balouek JA, Mclain C, Minerva AR, Rashford RL, Bennett SN, Rogers FD, Peña CJ (2023). Reactivation of early-life stress-sensitive neuronal ensembles contributes to lifelong stress hypersensitivity. 2022 Preprint on bioRxiv and Journal of Neuroscience
Rogers FD, Peña CJ*, Mallarino R* (2023). African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) as a neurobehavioral model for male parental care. Hormones and Behavior
Review
Bryant S*, Balouek JA*, Geiger LT, Barker DJ*, Peña CJ* (2022). Neuropathic pain as a trigger for histone modifications in limbic circuitry. Genes, Brain, and Behavior
Sidamon-Eristoff AE, Cohodes EM, Gee DG, Peña CJ (2021). Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Outcomes Among Central American and Mexican Children Held in Immigration Detention at the United States-Mexico Border. Developmental Psychobiology http://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22227
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Hanson JL, Williams AV, Bangasser DA, Peña CJ (2021). Impact of Early Life Stress on Reward Circuit Function and Regulation. Frontiers in Psychiatry
Review
Kronman H, Torres-Barrío, …. Peña CJ* & Nestler EJ* (2021). Long-term behavioral and cell-type-specific molecular effects of early life stress are mediated by H3K79me2 dynamics in medium spiny neurons. Nature Neuroscience
Parel ST & Peña CJ. (2020) Genome-wide Signatures of Early-Life Stress: Influence of Sex. Biological Psychiatry
Review
Peña CJ, Smith M, Ramakrishnan A, Cates HM, Bagot RC, Kronman HG, Patel B, Chang AB, Purushothaman I, Dudley JT, Morishita H, Shen L, Nestler EJ. (2019) Early life stress alters transcriptomic patterning across reward circuitry in male and female mice. Nature Communications 10, 5098
Previous preprint: bioRxiv 624353, doi:10.1101/624353
Peña CJ, Kronman HG, Walker DM, Cates HM, Bagot RC, Purushothaman I, Issler O, Loh YE, Leong T, Kiraly DD, Goodman E, Neve RL, Shen L, Nestler EJ. (2017) Early life stress confers lifelong stress susceptibility in mice via ventral tegmental area OTX2. Science, 356(6343):1185-1188
Peña CJ, Nestler EJ, Bagot RC. (2019) Environmental programming of susceptibility and resilience to stress in adulthood in male mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Peña CJ and Nestler EJ. (2018) Progress in Epigenetics of Depression. Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science.
Review