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Overview

Alon Chen is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as behavioral neuroscience, molecular biology, social psychology, biological psychiatry, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their work addresses main topics including stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, tryptophan and brain disorders, pancreatic function and diabetes, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, and sex and gender in healthcare.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Alon Chen are:

  • The neural circuitry of social homeostasis: Consequences of acute versus chronic social isolation (2021, Cell)
  • A paradigm shift in translational psychiatry through rodent neuroethology (2023, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • The co-chaperone Fkbp5 shapes the acute stress response in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of male mice (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • miR-323a regulates ERBB4 and is involved in depression (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Wireless Optogenetic Stimulation of Oxytocin Neurons in a Semi-natural Setup Dynamically Elevates Both Pro-social and Agonistic Behaviors (2020, Neuron)

Their most frequent co-authors include Mathias V. Schmidt, Juan Pablo López, Lea M. Brix, Elena Brivio, and Alexander S. Häusl, suggesting ongoing collaborations within their fields of study.

Alon Chen's research is disseminated across various publication venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), followed by Molecular Psychiatry, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Science Advances, and Cell.

Best Publications

  • Overshadowed by the amygdala: the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis emerges as key to psychiatric disorders

    M A Lebow;M A Lebow;A Chen;A Chen

  • Resilience to social stress coincides with functional DNA methylation of the Crf gene in adult mice

    Evan Elliott;Gili Ezra-Nevo;Limor Regev;Adi Neufeld-Cohen

  • The Role of m6A/m-RNA Methylation in Stress Response Regulation

    Mareen Engel;Carola Eggert;Paul M. Kaplick;Matthias Eder

  • MicroRNA 135 Is Essential for Chronic Stress Resiliency, Antidepressant Efficacy, and Intact Serotonergic Activity

    Orna Issler;Sharon Haramati;Evan D. Paul;Hiroshi Maeno

  • miRNA malfunction causes spinal motor neuron disease

    Sharon Haramati;Elik Chapnik;Yehezkel Sztainberg;Yehezkel Sztainberg;Raya Eilam

  • Resilience to Chronic Stress Is Mediated by Hippocampal Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

    Dekel Taliaz;Assaf Loya;Roman Gersner;Sharon Haramati

  • Determining the role of microRNAs in psychiatric disorders

    Orna Issler;Alon Chen

  • MicroRNA as repressors of stress-induced anxiety: the case of amygdalar miR-34

    Sharon Haramati;Inbal Navon;Orna Issler;Gili Ezra-Nevo

  • The Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Family: Physiology of the Stress Response.

    Jan M. Deussing;Alon Chen

  • Region-specific roles of the corticotropin-releasing factor-urocortin system in stress

    Marloes J. A. G. Henckens;Jan M. Deussing;Alon Chen

  • High-order social interactions in groups of mice.

    Yair Shemesh;Yehezkel Sztainberg;Oren Forkosh;Tamar Shlapobersky

  • Enhancement of Consolidated Long-Term Memory by Overexpression of Protein Kinase Mζ in the Neocortex

    Reut Shema;Sharon Haramati;Shiri Ron;Shoshi Hazvi

  • Urocortin-II and urocortin-III are cardioprotective against ischemia reperfusion injury: an essential endogenous cardioprotective role for corticotropin releasing factor receptor type 2 in the murine heart.

    Bhawanjit K Brar;Anne K Jonassen;Elena M Egorina;Alon Chen

  • The anxiolytic effect of environmental enrichment is mediated via amygdalar CRF receptor type 1.

    Y Sztainberg;Y Sztainberg;Y Kuperman;M Tsoory;M Lebow

  • Identification of a Novel Family of Targets of PYK2 Related to Drosophila Retinal Degeneration B (rdgB) Protein

    Sima Lev;John Hernandez;Ricardo Martinez;Alon Chen

  • Cross-disorder risk gene CACNA1C differentially modulates susceptibility to psychiatric disorders during development and adulthood

    N Dedic;M L Pöhlmann;J S Richter;D Mehta

  • The CRF Family of Neuropeptides and their Receptors - Mediators of the Central Stress Response

    Nina Dedic;Alon Chen;Jan M. Deussing

  • Chronic Stress Induces Sex-Specific Alterations in Methylation and Expression of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Gene in the Rat

    Linda Sterrenburg;Balázs Gaszner;Jeroen Boerrigter;Lennart Santbergen

  • An environmental enrichment model for mice

    Yehezkel Sztainberg;Yehezkel Sztainberg;Alon Chen

  • A second isoform of gonadotropin-releasing hormone is present in the brain of human and rodents

    Alon Chen;Dror Yahalom;Nurit Ben-Aroya;Ella Kaganovsky

  • The neuropeptides GnRH-II and GnRH-I are produced by human T cells and trigger laminin receptor gene expression, adhesion, chemotaxis and homing to specific organs

    Alon Chen;Yonatan Ganor;Shai Rahimipour;Nurit Ben-Aroya

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathias V. Schmidt
Mathias V. Schmidt Max Planck Society
Jan M. Deussing
Jan M. Deussing Max Planck Society
Wylie Vale
Wylie Vale Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Matthias Eder
Matthias Eder Max Planck Society
Wolfgang Wurst
Wolfgang Wurst German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Felix Beuschlein
Felix Beuschlein University of Zurich
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Carsten T. Wotjak
Carsten T. Wotjak Max Planck Society
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University

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