Publications

Gumusoglu, S. B., Chilukuri, A. S. S., Hing, B. W. Q., Scroggins, S. M., Kundu, S., Sandgren, J. A., . . . Stevens, H. E. (2021). Altered offspring neurodevelopment in an arginine vasopressin preeclampsia model. Transl Psychiatry, 11(1), 79. doi:10.1038/s41398-021-01205-0

Kundu, S., Maurer, S. V., & Stevens, H. E. (2021). Future Horizons for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Placental Mechanisms.Front Pediatr, 9(243). doi:10.3389/fped.2021.653230

Schroeder, R., Sridharan, P., Nguyen, L., Loren, A., Williams, N. S., Kettimuthu, K. P., . . . Stevens, H. E. (2021). Maternal P7C3-A20 Treatment Protects Offspring from Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Prenatal Stress. Antioxid Redox Signal. doi:10.1089/ars.2020.8227

Elser, B. A., Kayali, K., Dhakal, R., O'Hare, B., Wang, K., Lehmler, H. J., & Stevens, H. E. (2020). Combined maternal exposure to cypermethrin and stress affect embryonic brain and placental outcomes in mice. Toxicol Sci. doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfaa040

Gumusoglu, S. B., Chilukuri, A. S. S., Santillan, D. A., Santillan, M. K., & Stevens, H. E. (2020). Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Prenatal Preeclampsia Exposure. Trends Neurosci, 43(4), 253-268. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2020.02.003

Gumusoglu, S. B., Hing, B. W. Q., Chilukuri, A. S. S., Dewitt, J. J., Scroggins, S. M., & Stevens, H. E. (2020). Chronic maternal interleukin-17 and autism-related cortical gene expression, neurobiology, and behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi:10.1038/s41386-020-0640-0

Bittle, J., Menezes, E. C., McCormick, M. L., Spitz, D. R., Dailey, M., & Stevens, H. E. (2019). The Role of Redox Dysregulation in the Effects of Prenatal Stress on Embryonic Interneuron Migration. Cereb Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhz052

Dowell, J., Elser, B. A., Schroeder, R. E., & Stevens, H. E. (2019). Cellular stress mechanisms of prenatal maternal stress: Heat shock factors and oxidative stress. Neurosci Lett, 709, 134368. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134368

Ear, P. H., Chadda, A., Gumusoglu, S. B., Schmidt, M. S., Vogeler, S., Malicoat, J., . . . Brenner, C. (2019). Maternal Nicotinamide Riboside Enhances Postpartum Weight Loss, Juvenile Offspring Development, and Neurogenesis of Adult Offspring. Cell Rep, 26(4), 969-983 e964. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2019.01.007

Gumusoglu, S. B., & Stevens, H. E. (2019). Maternal Inflammation and Neurodevelopmental Programming: A Review of Preclinical Outcomes and Implications for Translational Psychiatry. Biol Psychiatry, 85(2), 107-121. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.08.008

Luo, Z., Ahlers-Dannen, K. E., Spicer, M. M., Yang, J., Alberico, S., Stevens, H. E., . . . Fisher, R. A. (2019). Age-dependent nigral dopaminergic neurodegeneration and alpha-synuclein accumulation in RGS6-deficient mice. JCI Insight, 5. doi:10.1172/jci.insight.126769

Menezes, E. C., Santos, P. R., Goes, T. C., Carvalho, V. C. B., Teixeira-Silva, F., Stevens, H. E., & Badaue-Passos, D. J. J. (2019). Effects of a rat model of gestational hypothyroidism on forebrain dopaminergic, GABAergic, and serotonergic systems and related behaviors. Behav Brain Res, 366, 77-87. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2019.03.027

Abbott, P. W., Gumusoglu, S. B., Bittle, J., Beversdorf, D. Q., & Stevens, H. E. (2018). Prenatal stress and genetic risk: How prenatal stress interacts with genetics to alter risk for psychiatric illness. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, 9-21. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.01.019

Bittle, J., & Stevens, H. E. (2018). The role of glucocorticoid, interleukin-1beta, and antioxidants in prenatal stress effects on embryonic microglia. J Neuroinflammation, 15(1), 44. doi:10.1186/s12974-018-1079-7

Gumusoglu SB, Fine RS, Bittle J, Murray S, Stevens HE. (2017) The role of IL-6 in neurodevelopment after prenatal stress. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. May 22 [epub ahead of print] PMID: 28546058

Londono Tobon A, Diaz Stransky A, Ross DA, Stevens HE: Effects of Maternal Prenatal Stress: Mechanisms, Implications, and Novel Therapeutic Interventions. Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Dec 1; 2016 Sep 21. PMID: 27968727

Hamed AM, Kauer AJ, Stevens HE. Why the Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Matters. Front Psychiatry. 2015;6:168. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00168. PubMed PMID: 26635643; PMCID: PMC4659921.

Brotnow L, Reiss D, Stover CS, Ganiban J, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM, Shaw DS, Stevens HE.Expectant Mothers Maximizing Opportunities: Maternal Characteristics Moderate Multifactorial Prenatal Stress in the Prediction of Birth Weight in a Sample of Children Adopted at Birth. PLoS One. 2015;10(11):e0141881. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141881. PubMed PMID: 26544958; PMCID: PMC4636431.

Stevens HE, Vaccarino FV (2015) How animal models inform child and adolescent psychiatry. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. May;54(5):352-9. PMID: 25901771.

Brotnow L, Reiss D, Stover CS, Ganiban J, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM, Shaw D, Stevens HE (2015) Expectant mothers maximizing opportunities: Maternal characteristics moderate multifactorial prenatal stress in the prediction of birth weight in a sample of children adopted at birth. PloS one, 10(11):e0141881. PMCID: 4636431.

Hamed A, Kauer A, Stevens HE (2015) Why the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Matters? Front Psychiatry. Nov 26;6:168. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00168.

Lussier SJ, Stevens HE (2016) Delays in GABAergic Interneuron Development and Behavioral Inhibition after Prenatal Stress. Dev Neurobiol. Jan 2. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22376. [Epub ahead of print]

Salmasoa N, McNeill J, ElSayed M, Rena Q, Maragnoli ME, Schwartz ML, Tomasi S, Stevens HE, Sapolsky RM, Duman R, Vaccarino FM (in press) Fibroblast growth factor 2 modulates hypothalamic pituitary axis activity and anxiety behavior through glucocorticoid receptors. Biological Psychiatry.

Fine RS, Zhang J, Stevens HE. Prenatal stress and inhibitory neuron systems: implications for psychiatric disorders. Molecular Psychiatry. April 2014, Epub ahead of print.

Stevens HE, Su T, Yanagawa Y, Vaccarino FM. Prenatal stress delays inhibitory neuron progenitor migration in the developing neocortex. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013, 38(4):509-521. PMC3532962 

Stevens HE, Jiang GY, Schwartz ML, Vaccarino FM. Learning and memory depend on fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 functioning in hippocampus. Biological Psychiatry. 2012, 71(12):1090-8. PMC3371339 

Stevens HE, Mariani J, Coppola G, Vaccarino FM. Neurobiology meets genomic science: the promise of human-induced pluropotent stem cells. Developmental Psychopathology. 2012, 24 (4): 1443-51. PMC3513939 

Stevens HE Chimpanzees: a model "model system" for social responsiveness. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2011 May;50(5):438-40. 

Vaccarino FM, Urban AE, Stevens HE, Szekely A, Abyzov A, Grigorenko E, Gerstein M, Weissman S. The promise of stem cell research for neuropsychiatric disorders, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2011 Apr;52(4):504-16. Epub 2011 Jan 4. 

Vaccarino, FM, Stevens HE, Kocabas A, Szekely A, Grigorenko EL, Weissman S. Induced pluripotent stem cells: a new tool of developmental neuroscience to address neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuropharmacology. 2011 Mar 1; [Epub ahead of print] 

Stevens HE. In this issue/abstract thinking: prefrontal cortex: disorders and development. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010, 49(3): 203-4. 

Stevens HE, Smith KM, Rash B, Vaccarino FM Neural stem cells and the developmental origins of neuropsychiatric disorders. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2010. doi:10.3389/fnins.2010.00059. 

Stevens HE. Meeting the Mental Health Needs of All Children through Pediatrics/Child Psychiatry Collaborations, American Journal of Psychiatry Resident’s Journal. 2010, 5 (2): 4-6. 

Stevens HE, Smith KM, Maragnoli ME, Fagel D, Borok E, Shanabrough M, Horvath TL, Vaccarino FM. Fgfr2 is required for the development of the medial prefrontal cortex and its connections with limbic circuits. Journal of Neuroscience. 2010, 30(16):5590 –5602. 

Stevens HE. In this issue/abstract thinking: the contribution of longitudinal studies to child psychiatry. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2009, 48(3):235-6. 

Stevens HE, Coplan JD, Leckman JF and Suomi SJ. Risk, Resilience and Recovery: Early Manipulation of Macaque Social Experience Result in Persistent Behavioral and Neurophysiological Outcomes, J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2009,. 48 (2): 114-127. 

Stevens HE. In this issue/abstract thinking: glial contributions to childhood psychiatric disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2009, 48(9): 871-2. 

Vaccarino FM, Grigorenko EL, Smith KM, Stevens HE. Regulation of cerebral cortical size and neuron number by FGF: Implications for Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. 2009, Mar;39(3):511-20. Epub 2008 Oct 13. 

Müller Smith K, Fagel DM, Stevens HE, Rabenstein RL, Maragnoli ME, Ohkubo Y, Picciotto MR, Schwartz ML, Vaccarino FM. Deficiency in inhibitory cortical interneurons associates with hyperactivity in fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 mutant mice. Biological Psychiatry. 2008, 63(10):953-62. Epub 2007 Nov 7.