Early Life Stress | The neurobiology of stress

Schroeder M, Jakovcevski M, Polacheck T, Drori Y, Luoni A, Röh S, Zaugg J, Ben-Dor S, Albrecht C, Chen A.
Placental miR-340 mediates vulnerability to activity based anorexia in mice. Nat Commun. 9(1):1596.

Schroeder M, Jakovcevski M, Polacheck T, Lebow M, Drori Y, Engel M, Ben-Dor S, Chen A.
A Methyl-Balanced Diet Prevents CRF-Induced Prenatal Stress-Triggered Predisposition to Binge Eating-like Phenotype. Cell Metab. 25:1269-1281.

Dr. Yair Ben-Efraim

Postdoctoral fellow

Yair received his PhD at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He uses systems neuroscience approaches to dissect behavioral roles of the CRF system, and the role of early postnatal experience in priming adulthood stress responses.

Keren Shoshani Haye

PhD student

Keren is a neuroscientist interested in the epigenetic mechanisms mediating the effects of early life stress on behavior and stress resiliency.