Paper Trail: A Sampling of Brain Research and Thinking Underway at Johns Hopkins

Published in Brain Wise - Summer 2016

A critical period of vulnerability to adolescent stress: epigenetic mediators in mesocortical dopaminergic neurons. Minae Niwa, Richard S. Lee, Teppei Tanaka, Kinya Okada, Shin-Ichi Kano, Akira Sawa. Human Molecular Genetics 2016 Apr 1;25(7):1370-1381.

Central transthyretin acts to decrease food intake and body weight. Fenping Zheng, Yonwook J. Kim, Timothy H. Moran, Hong Li, Sheng Bi. Scientific Reports 2016 Apr 7;6:24238.

Failure to upregulate Agrp and Orexin in response to activity based anorexia in weight loss vulnerable rats characterized by passive stress coping and prenatal stress experience. Gretha J. Boersma, Nu-Chu Liang, Richard S. Lee, Jennifer D. Albertz, Anneke Kastelein, Laura A. Moody, Shivani Aryal, Timothy H. Moran, Kellie L. Tamashiro. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2016: May;67:171-181.