Seema Bhatnagar, PhD

2017

Grafe, L.A., Eacret, D., Luz, S., Gotter, A.L., Winrow, C.J., Bhatnagar S. Orexin 2 receptor regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) response to acute and repeated stress. Neuroscience. 2017 Apr 21;348:313-323. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.02.038. PMID: 28257896

Grafe, L., Eacret, D., Luz, S., Bhatnagar, S. Orexins modulate sex differences in habituation to stress and cognitive flexibility. Biol Psychiatry. 2017 Apr 15;81(8):683-692. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.10.013. Epub 2016 Oct 18. PMID: 27955897

Holmes, A. Sex and Orexins: Uncovering a mechanism underlying sex differences in stress susceptibility. Biological Psychiatry, Volume 81, Issue 8, 15 April 2017, pages 642-644.

2015

Chen, R.J., Kelly, G., Sengupta, A., Heydendael, W., Nicholas, B., Beltrami, S., Luz, S., Peixoto, L., Abel, T. Bhatnagar, S. (2015) Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers for stress resilience or vulnerability. Neuroscience Oct 1; 305:36-48 PMID: 26208845

2017

Bhatnagar S. Development of paraventricular thalamic regulation of habituation to stress from adolescence to adulthood. Presented at: International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology; 2017 Sep; Zurich, Switzerland.

Bhatnagar S. Orexins and resilience to stress. Presented at: Symposium at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society; 2017 Jun; Hiroshima, Japan.

2016

Bhatnagar S. Neural mechanisms and biomarkers of stress resilience. Presented at: Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University; 2015 Oct 19; Philadelphia, PA.

Bhatnagar S. Neural Mechanisms and biomarkers of stress resilience: sex and developmental influences. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, CHOP/Penn School of Medicine; 2016 Oct 4; Philadelphia, PA.

Bhatnagar S. Resilience Redux. Symposium talk presented at: International Behavioral Neuroscience Society; 2016 Jun 17; Budapest, Hungary.

Bhatnagar S. Mechanisms of Resilience to Stress. Presented at: Dept. of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, University of South Carolina School of Medicine; 2016 Mar 11.

Bhatnagar S. Orexin actions in the prefrontal cortex. Presented at: Winter Congress on Brain Research; 2016 Jan; Breckenridge, CO.

Books

Dallman, M.F., Bhatnagar, S. & Viau V.  (2000). The HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis  Encyclopedia of Stress.  Ed.  G. Fink, Academic Press.

Dallman, M.F. & Bhatnagar, S.  (2000). Chronic stress: Role of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis.  Handbook of Physiology. 

Chapter

Meaney, M.J., Bhatnagar, S., MacIntosh, D.S., McCormick, C.M., Shanks, N., Smythe, J.W., & Viau, V.  (1993). Perinatal stress and neuroendocrine development in rats.  In C.R. Pfeiffer (Ed.), Intense Stress and Mental Disturbance in Children.  American Psychiatric Press Inc.  New York.

Meaney, M.J., Bodnoff, S.R., Bhatnagar, S., O'Donnell, D.,Welner, S.A., & Poirier, J.  (1992). Glucocorticoids as mediators of brain aging.  In M.H. Makman and G.B. Stefano (Eds.), Model Systems:  Neuroregulatory Mechanisms in Aging.  Manchester University Press.

Meaney, M.J., O'Donnell, D., Viau, V., Bhatnagar, S., Sarrieau, A., Smythe, J.W., Shanks, N., and Walker, C.-D.  (1991). Corticosteroid Receptors in Rat Brain and Pituitary During Development and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Function.  In P. McLaughlin and I. Zagon (Eds.), Receptors and the Developing Nervous System.  Chapman and Hall, London.

Meaney, M.J., Mitchell, J.B., Bhatnagar, S., Viau, V., & Bodnoff, S.R.  (1991). Early environmental regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: The role of serotonin.  In T. Fujji (Ed.), Functional Neurobiology of Short Term Exposure to Drugs.  Teikyo University Press, pp. 55-72.

Meaney, M.J., Aitken D.H., Bhatnagar, S., Bodnoff, S.R., Mitchell, J.B., Viau, V. & Sarrieau, A. (1990). Neonatal handling and the development of the adrenocortical response to stress, In N. Gunzenhauser (Ed.) Advances in Touch: New Implication in Human Development.  Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Round Table Series, Vol. 14.  Skillman, NJ, pp. 1-21.