For a list of all publications, see PubMed link below:
Selected Publications:
Maurer, S.V., Hing, B.W.Q., Lussier, S., Radhakrishna, S., Davis, J.L.B., Abbott, P.W., Michaelson, J.J., Stevens, H.E. (2025). Prenatal stress alters mouse offspring dorsal striatum development and placental function in sex-specific ways. J Psychiatr Res. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.12.048.
Menezes, E., de Abreu, F.F., Davis, J.B., Maurer, S.V., Roshko, V.C., Richardson, A., Dowell, J., Cassella, S.N., & Stevens, H.E. (2024). Effects of Gestastional Hypothyroidism on Mouse Brain Development: GABAergic Systems and Oxidative Stress. Developmental Biology, In Press, Journal Pre-proof. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2024.07.010
Carver, A.J., Hing, B., Elser, B.A., Lussier, S.J., Yamanashi, T., Howard, M.A.3rd., Kawasaki, H., Shinozaki, G., & Stevens, H.E. (2024). Correlation of telomere length in brain tissue with peripheral tissues in living human subjects. Front Mol Neurosci., 17:1303974. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2024.1303974
Evans, M.M., Kim, J., Abel, T., Nickl-Jockschat, T., & Stevens H.E. (2023). Developmental disruptions of the dorsal striatum in autism spectrum disorder. Biol Psychiatry, 95:102-111. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.08.015
Carver A.J., Taylor R.J., & Stevens H.E. (2023). Mouse In Vivo Placental Targeted CRISPR Manipulation. J Vis Exp., (194):10.3791/64760. doi:10.3791/64760
Stevens, H.E., Scuderi, S., Collica, S.C., Tomasi, S., Horvath, T.L., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2023). Neonatal loss of FGFR2 in astroglial cells affects locomotion, sociability, working memory, and glia-neuron interactions in mice. Transl Psychiatry,13(1):89. doi:10.1038/s41398-023-02372-y
Elser, B.A., Hing, B., & Stevens, H.E. (2022). A narrative review of converging evidence addressing developmental toxicity of pyrethroid insecticides. Crit Rev Toxicol, 52(5):371-388. doi:10.1080/10408444.2022.2122769
Elser, B.A., Simonsen, D., Lehmler, H.J., & Stevens, H.E. (2022). Maternal and fetal tissue distribution of α-cypermethrin and permethrin in pregnant CD-1 mice. Environ Adv., 8:100239. doi:10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100239
Gumusoglu, S.B., Maurer, S.V., & Stevens, H.E. (2022). Dataset describing maternal prenatal restraint stress effects on immune factors in mice. Data Brief, 43:108348. doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108348
Davis, J.L., O'Connor, M., Erlbacher, H., Schlichte, S.L., & Stevens, H.E. (2022). The Impact of Maternal Antioxidants on Prenatal Stress Effects on Offspring Neurobiology and Behavior. Yale J Biol Med, 95(1):87-104. PMCID: PMC8961714
Schroeder, R., Nguyen, L., Pieper, A.A., & Stevens, H.E. (2022). Maternal treatment with P7C3-A20 protects from impaired maternal care after chronic gestational stress. Behav Brain Res, 416:113558. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113558
Stevens, H.E. (2021). Editorial: Macaque At-Birth Adoption: Its Power and Promise. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 60(11):1345-1347. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2021.06.002
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, 9:653230. 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, 35(7):511-530. 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., 175(2):182-196 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, 45(6):1008-1017. 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, 29(12):5116-5130. 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., ...Stevens, H.E. & 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, S.B., Fine, R.S., Bittle, J., Murray, S., & Stevens, H.E. (2017). The role of IL-6 in neurodevelopment after prenatal stress. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 65:274-283. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2017.05.015
Londono, T.A., Diaz, S.A., Ross, D.A., & Stevens, H.E. (2016). Effects of Maternal Prenatal Stress: Mechanisms, Implications, and Novel Therapeutic Interventions. Biol Psychiatry, 80(11):e85-e87. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.09.011
Stevens, H.E. & Vaccarino, F.V. (2015). How animal models inform child and adolescent psychiatry. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 54(5):352-9. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2015.01.019
Brotnow, L., Reiss, D., Stover, C.S., Ganiban, J., Leve, L.D., Neiderhiser, J.M., Shaw, D., & Stevens, H.E. (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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141881
Hamed, A., Kauer, A. & Stevens, H.E. (2015). Why the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Matters. Front Psychiatry, 6:168. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00168
Lussier, S.J. & Stevens, H.E. (2016). Delays in GABAergic Interneuron Development and Behavioral Inhibition after Prenatal Stress. Dev Neurobiol, 76(10):1078-1091. doi:10.1002/dneu.22376
Salmasoa, N., McNeill, J., ElSayed, M., Rena, Q., Maragnoli, M.E., Schwartz, M.L., Tomasi, S., Stevens, H.E., Sapolsky, R.M., Duman, R., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2016). Fibroblast growth factor 2 modulates hypothalamic pituitary axis activity and anxiety behavior through glucocorticoid receptors. Biological Psychiatry, 80(6):479-489. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.02.026
Fine, R.S., Zhang, J., & Stevens, H.E. (2014). Prenatal stress and inhibitory neuron systems: implications for psychiatric disorders. Molecular Psychiatry, 9(16):641-51. doi:10.1038/mp.2014.35
Stevens, H.E., Su, T., Yanagawa, Y., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2013). Prenatal stress delays inhibitory neuron progenitor migration in the developing neocortex. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(4):509-521. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.07.011
Stevens, H.E., Jiang, G.Y., Schwartz, M.L., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2012). Learning and memory depend on fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 functioning in hippocampus. Biological Psychiatry, 71(12):1090-8. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.03.013
Stevens, H.E., Mariani, J., Coppola, G., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2012). Neurobiology meets genomic science: the promise of human-induced pluripotent stem cells. Developmental Psychopathology, 24(4): 1443-51. doi:10.1017/S095457941200082X
Stevens, H.E. (2011). Chimpanzees: a model "model system" for social responsiveness. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 50(5):438-40. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2011.02.004
Vaccarino, F.M., Urban, A.E., Stevens, H.E., Szekely, A., Abyzov, A., Grigorenko, E., Gerstein, M., & Weissman, S. (2011). The promise of stem cell research for neuropsychiatric disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(4):504-16. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02348.x
Vaccarino, F.M., Stevens, H.E., Kocabas, A., Szekely, A., Grigorenko, E.L., & Weissman, S. (2011). Induced pluripotent stem cells: a new tool of developmental neuroscience to address neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuropharmacology, 60(7-8): 1355-1363. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.02.021
Stevens, H.E. (2010). In this issue/abstract thinking: prefrontal cortex: disorders and development. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 49(3): 203-4. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2009.12.013.
Stevens, H.E., Smith, K.M., Rash, B., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2010). Neural stem cells and the developmental origins of neuropsychiatric disorders. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4. doi:10.3389/fnins.2010.00059.
Stevens, H.E. (2010). Meeting the Mental Health Needs of All Children through Pediatrics/Child Psychiatry Collaborations, American Journal of Psychiatry Resident’s Journal, 5(2): 4-6. doi:10.1037/ser0000045
Stevens, H.E., Smith, K.M., Maragnoli, M.E., Fagel, D., Borok, E., Shanabrough, M., Horvath, T.L., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2010). Fgfr2 is required for the development of the medial prefrontal cortex and its connections with limbic circuits. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(16):5590 –5602. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5837-09.2010
Stevens, H.E. In this issue/abstract thinking: the contribution of longitudinal studies to child psychiatry. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2009, 48(3):235-6. doi:10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181949018
Stevens H.E., Coplan, J.D., Leckman, J.F., & Suomi, S.J. (2009). Risk, Resilience and Recovery: Early Manipulation of Macaque Social Experience Result in Persistent Behavioral and Neurophysiological Outcomes, J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 48(2): 114-127. doi:10.1097/CHI.0b013e318193064c
Stevens, H.E. (2009). In this issue/abstract thinking: glial contributions to childhood psychiatric disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 48(9): 871-2. doi:10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181ae0a1b
Vaccarino, F.M., Grigorenko, E.L., Smith, K.M., & Stevens, H.E. (2009).Regulation of cerebral cortical size and neuron number by FGF: Implications for Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 39(3):511-20. doi:10.1007/s10803-008-0653-8
Müller, S.K., Fagel, D.M., Stevens, H.E., Rabenstein, R.L., Maragnoli, M.E., Ohkubo, Y., Picciotto, M.R., Schwartz, M.L., & Vaccarino, F.M. (2007). Deficiency in inhibitory cortical interneurons associates with hyperactivity in fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 mutant mice. Biological Psychiatry, 63(10):953-62. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.09.020