Sex Matters: Interplay of neonatal paternal deprivation and adult stress in the biparental California mouse (Peromyscus californicus)
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School of Neuroscience Innovators Seminar Series
Erica R. Glasper, Ph. D., Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
- Public Neuroscience Seminar
- Fralin Auditorium
- Wednesday, October 9, 2019
- 11:00 AM – 12:00pm
Early-life stress confers vulnerability for distal effects on psychiatric illnesses and impaired cognition. Traditional rodent studies study early-life stress using prolonged disrupted mother-offspring relationships. Dr. Glasper will present findings using the California mouse (Peromyscus californicus), a biparental rodent species that requires paternal care for offspring survival and typical development. Using paternal deprivation, her research elucidates the sex-specific effects of early-life stress and later-life chronic stress on stress axis vulnerability and cognitive function.