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.ynstr.2025.100749.

Lopez JP, Chen A.
Neuropsychiatric research in 2023: mechanisms of stress and therapies. The Lancet Neurology. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(23)00469-6.

Hebrew

דיוקנה של הטראומה במוח צעיר: המנגנון העצבי שמשתבש כתוצאה מחשיפה לאירוע קשה בגיל רך

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 ה

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, Chen A.
Early life adversity shapes social subordination and cell type–specific transcriptomic patterning in the ventral hippocampus. Science Advances. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj3793.

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.

Shemesh Y, Chen A.
A paradigm shift in translational psychiatry through rodent neuroethology. Mol Psychiatry. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01913-z.

English

Stressed Out from Birth: Mice Exposed to Prenatal Stress Are Predisposed to Eating Disorders Later in Life

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute prevented the onset of eating disorders through dietary intervention
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Stress and the Brain: It’s all about balance

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Mice born to stressed mothers are more likely to binge eat

"The price we pay later in life -- whether it's psychiatric disorders, metabolic syndromes, or heart-related illnesses -- is heavily impacted by the way your brain was programmed early in life," sa
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Prenatal stress predisposes female mice to binge eating Prenatal stress predisposes female mice to binge eating

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