Michael J Meaney

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1 Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior. Nat Neurosci 2004 20.92
2 Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in human brain associates with childhood abuse. Nat Neurosci 2009 10.17
3 Reversal of maternal programming of stress responses in adult offspring through methyl supplementation: altering epigenetic marking later in life. J Neurosci 2005 3.48
4 Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research. Nat Rev Neurosci 2010 3.30
5 Variations in maternal care in the rat as a mediating influence for the effects of environment on development. Physiol Behav 2003 3.09
6 Maternal care effects on the hippocampal transcriptome and anxiety-mediated behaviors in the offspring that are reversible in adulthood. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 3.07
7 Maternal care associated with methylation of the estrogen receptor-alpha1b promoter and estrogen receptor-alpha expression in the medial preoptic area of female offspring. Endocrinology 2006 2.98
8 Dopamine release in response to a psychological stress in humans and its relationship to early life maternal care: a positron emission tomography study using [11C]raclopride. J Neurosci 2004 2.93
9 Glucocorticoid programming. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004 2.73
10 Maternal care and hippocampal plasticity: evidence for experience-dependent structural plasticity, altered synaptic functioning, and differential responsiveness to glucocorticoids and stress. J Neurosci 2008 2.41
11 Promoter-wide hypermethylation of the ribosomal RNA gene promoter in the suicide brain. PLoS One 2008 2.40
12 Long-term consequences of neonatal rearing on central corticotropin-releasing factor systems in adult male rat offspring. Neuropsychopharmacology 2005 2.35
13 The transcription factor nerve growth factor-inducible protein a mediates epigenetic programming: altering epigenetic marks by immediate-early genes. J Neurosci 2007 2.21
14 The social environment and the epigenome. Environ Mol Mutagen 2008 2.18
15 Epigenetics and the environmental regulation of the genome and its function. Annu Rev Psychol 2010 2.16
16 Natural variations in maternal care are associated with estrogen receptor alpha expression and estrogen sensitivity in the medial preoptic area. Endocrinology 2003 2.15
17 Differential glucocorticoid receptor exon 1(B), 1(C), and 1(H) expression and methylation in suicide completers with a history of childhood abuse. Biol Psychiatry 2012 2.13
18 Environmental enrichment reverses the effects of maternal separation on stress reactivity. J Neurosci 2002 2.10
19 Oxytocin-dopamine interactions mediate variations in maternal behavior in the rat. Endocrinology 2010 2.09
20 Deactivation of the limbic system during acute psychosocial stress: evidence from positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Biol Psychiatry 2007 2.03
21 Neurodevelopmental sequelae of postnatal maternal care in rodents: clinical and research implications of molecular insights. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2007 2.00
22 Stress during gestation alters postpartum maternal care and the development of the offspring in a rodent model. Biol Psychiatry 2006 1.97
23 Dysfunction of astrocyte connexins 30 and 43 in dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex of suicide completers. Biol Psychiatry 2011 1.92
24 Maternal programming of steroid receptor expression and phenotype through DNA methylation in the rat. Front Neuroendocrinol 2005 1.87
25 Broad epigenetic signature of maternal care in the brain of adult rats. PLoS One 2011 1.86
26 Epigenetic programming of stress responses through variations in maternal care. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004 1.81
27 Early environmental regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor gene expression: characterization of intracellular mediators and potential genomic target sites. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004 1.80
28 Transgenerational effects of social environment on variations in maternal care and behavioral response to novelty. Behav Neurosci 2007 1.76
29 Variations in nucleus accumbens dopamine associated with individual differences in maternal behavior in the rat. J Neurosci 2004 1.76
30 Prenatal maternal depression associates with microstructure of right amygdala in neonates at birth. Biol Psychiatry 2013 1.75
31 Stress pathways to spontaneous preterm birth: the role of stressors, psychological distress, and stress hormones. Am J Epidemiol 2009 1.72
32 The programming of individual differences in defensive responses and reproductive strategies in the rat through variations in maternal care. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2005 1.62
33 Genome-wide epigenetic regulation by early-life trauma. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2012 1.57
34 Maternal programming of defensive responses through sustained effects on gene expression. Biol Psychol 2006 1.55
35 Maternal care influences hippocampal N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor function and dynamic regulation by corticosterone in adulthood. Biol Psychiatry 2012 1.51
36 Maternal care and DNA methylation of a glutamic acid decarboxylase 1 promoter in rat hippocampus. J Neurosci 2010 1.50
37 Maternal care influences neuronal survival in the hippocampus of the rat. Eur J Neurosci 2003 1.46
38 Conserved epigenetic sensitivity to early life experience in the rat and human hippocampus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 1.45
39 Epigenetic mechanisms for the early environmental regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor gene expression in rodents and humans. Neuropsychopharmacology 2012 1.45
40 Variations in maternal care alter GABA(A) receptor subunit expression in brain regions associated with fear. Neuropsychopharmacology 2003 1.44
41 Maternal care modulates the relationship between prenatal risk and hippocampal volume in women but not in men. J Neurosci 2007 1.44
42 No moderating effect of 5-HTTLPR on associations between antenatal anxiety and infant behavior. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2013 1.44
43 COMT haplotypes modulate associations of antenatal maternal anxiety and neonatal cortical morphology. Am J Psychiatry 2014 1.43
44 Glucocorticoid "programming" and PTSD risk. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006 1.39
45 Maternal programming of sexual behavior and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal function in the female rat. PLoS One 2008 1.39
46 Influence of early postnatal rearing conditions on mesocorticolimbic dopamine and behavioural responses to psychostimulants and stressors in adult rats. Eur J Neurosci 2004 1.39
47 Maternal influences on the sexual behavior and reproductive success of the female rat. Horm Behav 2008 1.30
48 Measuring the methylome in clinical samples: improved processing of the Infinium Human Methylation450 BeadChip Array. Epigenetics 2012 1.30
49 Prenatal dexamethasone exposure induces changes in nonhuman primate offspring cardiometabolic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function. J Clin Invest 2007 1.28
50 Epigenetics and parental effects. Bioessays 2010 1.28
51 Genome-wide methylation changes in the brains of suicide completers. Am J Psychiatry 2013 1.25
52 Diet and the epigenetic (re)programming of phenotypic differences in behavior. Brain Res 2008 1.22
53 Maternal behavior regulates benzodiazepine/GABAA receptor subunit expression in brain regions associated with fear in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. Neuropsychopharmacology 2004 1.22
54 Epigenetic Biomarkers as Predictors and Correlates of Symptom Improvement Following Psychotherapy in Combat Veterans with PTSD. Front Psychiatry 2013 1.22
55 Maternal care determines rapid effects of stress mediators on synaptic plasticity in adult rat hippocampal dentate gyrus. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2009 1.20
56 The influence of natural variations in maternal care on play fighting in the rat. Dev Psychobiol 2008 1.18
57 Effect of neonatal handling and paternal care on offspring cognitive development in the monogamous California mouse (Peromyscus californicus). Horm Behav 2004 1.17
58 Environmental regulation of the neural epigenome. FEBS Lett 2011 1.17
59 Regional-specific global cytosine methylation and DNA methyltransferase expression in the adult rat hippocampus. Neurosci Lett 2008 1.17
60 Peripubertal environmental enrichment reverses the effects of maternal care on hippocampal development and glutamate receptor subunit expression. Eur J Neurosci 2004 1.16
61 The effects of pH on DNA methylation state: In vitro and post-mortem brain studies. J Neurosci Methods 2008 1.15
62 Behavioral epigenetics. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2011 1.14
63 Serotonin regulates hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor expression via a 5-HT7 receptor. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 2002 1.13
64 Effect of maternal glycemia on neonatal adiposity in a multiethnic Asian birth cohort. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2013 1.08
65 From maternal care to gene expression: DNA methylation and the maternal programming of stress responses. Endocr Res 2002 1.06
66 Epigenetics and the biological basis of gene x environment interactions. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2010 1.04
67 Maternal programming of defensive responses through sustained effects on gene expression. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2007 1.02
68 Back to basics: a bilingual advantage in infant visual habituation. Child Dev 2014 1.00
69 Quality of parental emotional care and calculated risk for coronary heart disease. Psychosom Med 2010 0.99
70 Adult hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor expression and dentate synaptic plasticity correlate with maternal care received by individuals early in life. Hippocampus 2011 0.99
71 Variations in postnatal maternal care and the epigenetic regulation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 expression and hippocampal function in the rat. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 0.98
72 The influence of birth size on intelligence in healthy children. Pediatrics 2009 0.97
73 ERK-FosB signaling in dorsal MPOA neurons plays a major role in the initiation of parental behavior in mice. Mol Cell Neurosci 2007 0.96
74 The Douglas Hospital Longitudinal Study of Normal and Pathological Aging: summary of findings. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2005 0.95
75 Maternal behavior regulates long-term hippocampal expression of BAX and apoptosis in the offspring. J Neurochem 2002 0.94
76 Affiliative behavior requires juvenile, but not adult neurogenesis. J Neurosci 2011 0.94
77 Maternal licking regulates hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor transcription through a thyroid hormone-serotonin-NGFI-A signalling cascade. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2012 0.94
78 Chronic treatment with the antidepressant amitriptyline prevents impairments in water maze learning in aging rats. J Neurosci 2002 0.94
79 Early maternal care predicts reliance on social learning about food in adult rats. Dev Psychobiol 2012 0.92
80 Testosterone-dependent variations in plasma and intrapituitary corticosteroid binding globulin and stress hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity in the male rat. J Endocrinol 2004 0.92
81 Maternal programming of individual differences in defensive responses in the rat. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004 0.92
82 Psychological stressors as a model of maternal adversity: diurnal modulation of corticosterone responses and changes in maternal behavior. Horm Behav 2006 0.90
83 Prenatal maternal stress from a natural disaster predicts dermatoglyphic asymmetry in humans. Dev Psychopathol 2009 0.90
84 Maternal separation leads to persistent reductions in pain sensitivity in female rats. J Pain 2007 0.90
85 Blood pressure and retinal microvascular characteristics during pregnancy: Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) Study. Hypertension 2012 0.89
86 Preliminary evidence for an impulsivity-based thrifty eating phenotype. Pediatr Res 2012 0.89
87 Transcriptome changes affecting Hedgehog and cytokine signalling in the umbilical cord: implications for disease risk. PLoS One 2012 0.88
88 Structural connectivity asymmetry in the neonatal brain. Neuroimage 2013 0.88
89 Early adversity and serotonin transporter genotype interact with hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor mRNA expression, corticosterone, and behavior in adult male rats. Behav Neurosci 2011 0.87
90 Amygdala kindling increases fear responses and decreases glucocorticoid receptor mRNA expression in hippocampal regions. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2003 0.87
91 Effect of resource availability on biparental care, and offspring neural and behavioral development in the California mouse (Peromyscus californicus). Eur J Neurosci 2007 0.86
92 Population differences in brain morphology and microstructure among Chinese, Malay, and Indian neonates. PLoS One 2012 0.86
93 Maternal anxiety and breastfeeding: findings from the MAVAN (Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment) Study. J Hum Lact 2013 0.86
94 Preliminary evidence of altered sensitivity to benzodiazepines as a function of maternal care in the rat. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004 0.85
95 Morphology and microstructure of subcortical structures at birth: a large-scale Asian neonatal neuroimaging study. Neuroimage 2012 0.85
96 Maternal stress/distress, hormonal pathways and spontaneous preterm birth. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2013 0.84
97 Environmental regulation of the neural epigenome. Epigenomics 2009 0.84
98 Interaction between oxytocin genotypes and early experience predicts quality of mothering and postpartum mood. PLoS One 2013 0.83
99 Birth weight and gestation influence striatal morphology and motor response in normal six-year-old boys. Neuroimage 2011 0.82
100 The influence of anxiety and depressive symptoms during pregnancy on birth size. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2013 0.82
101 Executive functions of six-year-old boys with normal birth weight and gestational age. PLoS One 2012 0.82
102 Maternal care associates with play dominance rank among adult female rats. Dev Psychobiol 2012 0.82
103 Non-stress-related factors associated with maternal corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) concentration. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2010 0.81
104 Influence of birth weight on internalizing traits modulated by serotonergic genes. Pediatrics 2011 0.81
105 Early postnatal experience and DRD2 genotype affect dopamine receptor expression in the rat ventral striatum. Behav Brain Res 2012 0.81
106 Behavioral response to methylphenidate challenge: influence of early life parental care. Dev Psychobiol 2009 0.81
107 Inattention and hyperactivity predict alterations in specific neural circuits among 6-year-old boys. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2012 0.81
108 Insights from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort study. Ann Nutr Metab 2014 0.80
109 Neurobehavioral basis of the impaired nurturing in mice lacking the immediate early gene FosB. Brain Res 2008 0.80
110 Decreased hippocampal mineralocorticoid:glucocorticoid receptor ratio is associated with low birth weight in female cynomolgus macaque neonates. J Mol Endocrinol 2013 0.79
111 Serotonin receptor binding and mRNA expression in the hippocampus of fearful amygdala-kindled rats. Neurosci Lett 2005 0.78
112 Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid status during pregnancy and maternal mental health in pregnancy and the postpartum period: results from the GUSTO study. J Clin Psychiatry 2015 0.77
113 Epigenetics, behaviour, and health. Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol 2008 0.77
114 Dietary disinhibition modulates neural valuation of food in the fed and fasted states. Am J Clin Nutr 2013 0.77
115 Variations in maternal care associated with differences in female rat reproductive behavior in a group-mating environment. Dev Psychobiol 2012 0.76
116 Correction: IGF-1 Induces GHRH Neuronal Axon Elongation during Early Postnatal Life in Mice. PLoS One 2017 0.75
117 Enriching stress research. Cell 2010 0.75
118 Amygdala kindling decreases insulin-like growth factor-I receptor binding sites in the rat hippocampus. Brain Res 2002 0.75
119 Establishment and consolidation of the sleep-wake cycle as a function of attachment pattern. Attach Hum Dev 2014 0.75
120 Investigating the association between labour epidural analgesia and postpartum depression: A prospective cohort study. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2020 0.75
121 It is time to take a stand for medical research and against terrorism targeting medical scientists. Biol Psychiatry 2008 0.75
122 Sleep Quality and Nocturnal Sleep Duration in Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Sleep 2016 0.75