Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/ en Mapping the stress response: A high-resolution single-cell atlas of the hippocampus. https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/mapping-stress-response-high-resolution-single-cell-atlas-hippocampus <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Mapping the stress response: A high-resolution single-cell atlas of the hippocampus.</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 01/21/2026 - 16:37</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted"><p>Our latest publication in Molecular Psychiatry provides the most comprehensive characterization to date of the adult male hippocampus under stress, identifying cell-type specific molecular signatures.</p> </div> <div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/5" hreflang="en">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</a></div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/1" hreflang="en">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</a></div> </div> <div> <img loading="lazy" src="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2026-01/Pablo%202026.png" width="339" height="307" alt="" /> </div> <div><time datetime="2026-01-19T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">Mon, 01/19/2026 - 12:00</time> </div> <div><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03417-y">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03417-y</a></div> Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:37:31 +0000 adiaz 241 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen De Donno C Lopez JP D Luecken M Kos A Brivio E Bordes J Yang H M Deussing J V Schmidt M J Theis F Chen A Single cell characterization of the adult male hippocampus suggests a prominent and cell type specific role for Nrgn and Sgk1 in response to a social https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/de-donno-c-lopez-jp-d-luecken-m-kos-brivio-e-bordes-j-yang-h-m-deussing-j-v-schmidt-m-j-theis-f <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">De Donno C Lopez JP D Luecken M Kos A Brivio E Bordes J Yang H M Deussing J V Schmidt M J Theis F Chen A Single cell characterization of the adult male hippocampus suggests a prominent and cell type specific role for Nrgn and Sgk1 in response to a social </span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 01/21/2026 - 16:05</span> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2026-01/Single-cell%20characterization%20-Pablo-2026.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="authors-and-title"><p>De Donno C, Lopez JP, D. Luecken M, Kos A, Brivio E, Bordes J, Yang H, M. Deussing J, V. Schmidt M, J. Theis F,<strong> Chen A</strong>.<br /> Single-cell characterization of the adult male hippocampus suggests a prominent, and cell-type specific, role for Nrgn and Sgk1 in response to a social stressor. <em>Mol Psychiatry</em>. doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-03417-y.</p> </div></a> <div class="tags-rows-container"> <div class="tags-rows">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</div> </div> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2026-01/Single-cell%20characterization%20-Pablo-2026.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="pdf-download"></div></a> <div> <div>Year</div> <div>2026</div> </div> Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:05:48 +0000 adiaz 239 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen Shoshani Haye K Friedlander G Golani O Almeida Correa S Shemesh Y Chen A Prenatal stress induces transient developmental alterations in distinct GABAergic populations and leads to long lasting behavioral abnormalities Neurobiology of Stress doi 10 1016 j https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/shoshani-haye-k-friedlander-g-golani-o-almeida-correa-s-shemesh-y-chen-prenatal-stress-induces <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Shoshani Haye K Friedlander G Golani O Almeida Correa S Shemesh Y Chen A Prenatal stress induces transient developmental alterations in distinct GABAergic populations and leads to long lasting behavioral abnormalities Neurobiology of Stress doi 10 1016 j </span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Sun, 08/17/2025 - 13:47</span> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2025-08/Keren%202025.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="authors-and-title"><p>Shoshani-Haye K, Friedlander G, Golani O, Almeida-Correa S, Shemesh Y, <strong>Chen A</strong>.<br /> Prenatal stress induces transient developmental alterations in distinct GABAergic populations and leads to long-lasting behavioral abnormalities. <em>Neurobiology of Stress. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2025.100749.</em></p> </div></a> <div class="tags-rows-container"> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Circuitry and Regulation</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</div> <div class="tags-rows">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</div> <div class="tags-rows">Early Life Stress</div> </div> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2025-08/Keren%202025.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="pdf-download"></div></a> <div> <div>Year</div> <div>2025</div> </div> Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:47:42 +0000 adiaz 237 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen Group social dynamics in a semi-natural setup reveal an adaptive value for aggression in male mice. https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/group-social-dynamics-semi-natural-setup-reveal-adaptive-value-aggression-male-mice <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Group social dynamics in a semi-natural setup reveal an adaptive value for aggression in male mice.</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 05/08/2024 - 13:44</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted"><p>Environmental enrichment and oxytocin knockout show opposite effect on aggression and hierarchy structure in male mice.</p> </div> <div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/6" hreflang="en">Stress Circuitry and Regulation</a></div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/5" hreflang="en">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</a></div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/1" hreflang="en">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</a></div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/2" hreflang="en">Complex Behavior</a></div> </div> <div> <img loading="lazy" src="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2024-05/otr_ee_news_website.png" width="295" height="307" alt="" /> </div> <div><time datetime="2024-04-28T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">Sun, 04/28/2024 - 12:00</time> </div> <div><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.25.591070v1">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.25.591070v1</a></div> Wed, 08 May 2024 10:44:56 +0000 adiaz 223 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen Semi-natural setups can contribute to a more complete understanding of dominance and aggression in mice. https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/semi-natural-setups-can-contribute-more-complete-understanding-dominance-and-aggression-mice <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Semi-natural setups can contribute to a more complete understanding of dominance and aggression in mice.</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 05/08/2024 - 13:41</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted"><p>Checkout our latest review in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.<br />  </p> </div> <div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/6" hreflang="en">Stress Circuitry and Regulation</a></div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/5" hreflang="en">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</a></div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/1" hreflang="en">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</a></div> <div><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/2" hreflang="en">Complex Behavior</a></div> </div> <div> <img loading="lazy" src="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2024-05/review_news_website.png" width="337" height="307" alt="" /> </div> <div><time datetime="2024-05-08T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">Wed, 05/08/2024 - 12:00</time> </div> <div><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438824000412">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438824000412</a></div> Wed, 08 May 2024 10:41:27 +0000 adiaz 220 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen Shemesh Y Benjamin A Shoshani Haye K Yizhar O Chen A Studying dominance and aggression requires ethologically relevant paradigms Current opinion in neurobiology doi 10 1016 j conb 2024 102879 https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/shemesh-y-benjamin-shoshani-haye-k-yizhar-o-chen-studying-dominance-and-aggression-requires <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Shemesh Y Benjamin A Shoshani Haye K Yizhar O Chen A Studying dominance and aggression requires ethologically relevant paradigms Current opinion in neurobiology doi 10 1016 j conb 2024 102879</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 05/02/2024 - 14:06</span> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2024-05/Studying%20dominance%20and%20aggression-Yair%20S-%204.24.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="authors-and-title"><p>Shemesh Y, Benjamin A, Shoshani-Haye K, Yizhar O, <strong>Chen A</strong>.<br /> Studying dominance and aggression requires ethologically relevant paradigms. <em>Current opinion in neurobiology</em>. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2024.102879.</p> </div></a> <div class="tags-rows-container"> <div class="tags-rows">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</div> <div class="tags-rows">Complex Behavior</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Circuitry and Regulation</div> </div> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2024-05/Studying%20dominance%20and%20aggression-Yair%20S-%204.24.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="pdf-download"></div></a> <div> <div>Year</div> <div>2024</div> </div> Thu, 02 May 2024 11:06:40 +0000 adiaz 211 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen Lopez JP Chen A Neuropsychiatric research in 2023 mechanisms of stress and therapies The Lancet Neurology doi 10 1016 S1474 4422 23 00469 6 https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/lopez-jp-chen-neuropsychiatric-research-2023-mechanisms-stress-and-therapies-lancet-neurology-doi <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Lopez JP Chen A Neuropsychiatric research in 2023 mechanisms of stress and therapies The Lancet Neurology doi 10 1016 S1474 4422 23 00469 6</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 05/02/2024 - 13:39</span> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2024-05/mechanisms%20of%20stress%20Pablo%201.1.24.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="authors-and-title"><p>Lopez JP, <strong>Chen A</strong>.<br /> Neuropsychiatric research in 2023: mechanisms of stress and therapies. <em>The Lancet Neurology. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(23)00469-6.</em></p> </div></a> <div class="tags-rows-container"> <div class="tags-rows">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</div> <div class="tags-rows">Complex Behavior</div> <div class="tags-rows">Metabolism and stress</div> <div class="tags-rows">Early Life Stress</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Circuitry and Regulation</div> </div> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2024-05/mechanisms%20of%20stress%20Pablo%201.1.24.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="pdf-download"></div></a> <div> <div>Year</div> <div>2024</div> </div> Thu, 02 May 2024 10:39:45 +0000 adiaz 205 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen דיוקנה של הטראומה במוח צעיר: המנגנון העצבי שמשתבש כתוצאה מחשיפה לאירוע קשה בגיל רך https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/dywqnh-sl-htrwmh-bmwh-zyr-hmngnwn-hzby-smstbs-ktwzh-mhsyph-lyrw-qsh-bgyl-rk <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">דיוקנה של הטראומה במוח צעיר: המנגנון העצבי שמשתבש כתוצאה מחשיפה לאירוע קשה בגיל רך</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/28/2023 - 11:15</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted"><p class="text-align-right">מדעני מכון ויצמן למדע חושפים בפירוט חסר תקדים כיצד טראומה בעכברים בני יומם מעצבת את מוחם ופוגעת בתפקודים החברתיים שלהם בבגרות – ומדגישים את חשיבות ההתערבות המוקדמת ליכולת השיקום</p> </div> <div class="tags-rows-container"> <div class="tags-rows"><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/4" hreflang="en">Early Life Stress</a></div> <div class="tags-rows"><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/1" hreflang="en">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</a></div> <div class="tags-rows"><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/5" hreflang="en">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</a></div> <div class="tags-rows"><a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/taxonomy/term/2" hreflang="en">Complex Behavior</a></div> </div> <div> <img loading="lazy" src="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2023-12/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94%20%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94%20%D7%91%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C%20%D7%A6%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8_0.jpg" width="1920" height="647" alt="" /> </div> <div><time datetime="2023-12-03T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">Sun, 12/03/2023 - 12:00</time> </div> <div>Hebrew</div> <div><a href="https://heb.wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/n-12078">https://heb.wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/n-12078</a></div> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 09:15:57 +0000 adiaz 202 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen Kos A Lopez JP Bordes J de Donno C Dine J Brivio E Karamihalev S Luecken MD Almeida Correa S Gasperoni S Dick A Miranda L B ttner M Stoffel R Flachskamm C Theis FJ Schmidt MV Chen A Early life adversity shapes social subordination and cell type specific t https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/kos-lopez-jp-bordes-j-de-donno-c-dine-j-brivio-e-karamihalev-s-luecken-md-almeida-correa-s <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Kos A Lopez JP Bordes J de Donno C Dine J Brivio E Karamihalev S Luecken MD Almeida Correa S Gasperoni S Dick A Miranda L B ttner M Stoffel R Flachskamm C Theis FJ Schmidt MV Chen A Early life adversity shapes social subordination and cell type specific t</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/28/2023 - 08:02</span> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2023-12/Aron%20pablo%2011.2023.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="authors-and-title"><p>Kos A, Lopez JP, Bordes J, de Donno C, Dine J, Brivio E, Karamihalev S, Luecken MD, Almeida-Correa S, Gasperoni S, Dick A, Miranda L, Büttner M, Stoffel R, Flachskamm C, Theis FJ, Schmidt MV, <strong>Chen A</strong>.<br /> Early life adversity shapes social subordination and cell type–specific transcriptomic patterning in the ventral hippocampus. <em>Science Advances. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj3793.</em></p> </div></a> <div class="tags-rows-container"> <div class="tags-rows">Early Life Stress</div> <div class="tags-rows">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</div> <div class="tags-rows">Complex Behavior</div> </div> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2023-12/Aron%20pablo%2011.2023.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="pdf-download"></div></a> <div> <div>Year</div> <div>2023</div> </div> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:02:44 +0000 adiaz 199 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen Lebow M Kuperman Y Chen A Chapter 19 Prenatal induced psychopathologies All roads lead to microglia Stress immunology and inflammation doi 10 1016 B978 0 12 817558 3 00016 0 https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen/lebow-m-kuperman-y-chen-chapter-19-prenatal-induced-psychopathologies-all-roads-lead-microglia <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Lebow M Kuperman Y Chen A Chapter 19 Prenatal induced psychopathologies All roads lead to microglia Stress immunology and inflammation doi 10 1016 B978 0 12 817558 3 00016 0</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>adiaz</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Sun, 10/22/2023 - 10:07</span> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2023-10/Maya%20L%20and%20Yael%202023.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="authors-and-title"><p>Lebow M, Kuperman Y, <strong>Chen A.</strong> Chapter 19 - Prenatal-induced psychopathologies: All roads lead to microglia. <em>Stress: immunology and inflammation. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-817558-3.00016-0.</em></p> </div></a> <div class="tags-rows-container"> <div class="tags-rows">Gene X stress Interaction: Epigenetic Mechanisms</div> <div class="tags-rows">Metabolism and stress</div> <div class="tags-rows">Early Life Stress</div> <div class="tags-rows">Stress Linked Psychopathologies</div> </div> <a href="/brain-sciences/labs/chen/sites/brain-sciences.labs.chen/files/2023-10/Maya%20L%20and%20Yael%202023.pdf" target="blank" ><div class="pdf-download"></div></a> <div> <div>Year</div> <div>2023</div> </div> Sun, 22 Oct 2023 07:07:08 +0000 adiaz 196 at https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences/labs/chen