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.

Sex shapes cell-type-specific transcriptional signatures of stress exposure in the mouse hypothalamus

Our latest publication in Cell Reports shows that the response to acute stress is encoded differently in cell types and sexes.

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Vive la Différence: Brain Cells of Males and Females Respond Differently to Chronic Stress

A new study in mice could pave the way to personalized therapy for depression, anxiety and other stress-related disorders known to produce different effects on men and women.

Brivio E, Kos A, Ulivi AF, Karamihalev S, Ressle A, Stoffel R, Hirsch D, Stelzer G, Schmidt M, Lopez JP, Chen A.
Sex shapes cell-type-specific transcriptional signatures of stress exposure in the mouse hypothalamus. Cell Reports, 42(8). doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112874.‏

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

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Scientists Find Gene that Ties Stress to Obesity and Diabetes

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גן המקשר בין מצבי לחץ לבין השמנה, סוכרת ומחלות מטבוליות אחרות

מדעני מכון ויצמן למדע גילו את הבסיס הגנטי שבעטיו צפוי להכפיל עצמו מספר חולי הסוכרת מסוג 2

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Gene that ties stress to obesity and diabetes discovered

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