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Anthony J. Hannan is affiliated with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields including neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The subfields of their work include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, biological psychiatry, and neurology.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass genetic neurodegenerative diseases, tryptophan and brain disorders, gut microbiota and health, stress responses and cortisol, mitochondrial function and pathology, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, as well as birth, development, and health.

They have published papers in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent publications in the following journals:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Brain Communications
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity

Recent notable papers include:

  • Gut dysbiosis in Huntington's disease: associations among gut microbiota, cognitive performance and clinical outcomes, 2020, Brain Communications
  • Exercise mimetics: harnessing the therapeutic effects of physical activity, 2021, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • An integrated metagenomics and metabolomics approach implicates the microbiota-gut-brain axis in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease, 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
  • Pathogenic Infection in Male Mice Changes Sperm Small RNA Profiles and Transgenerationally Alters Offspring Behavior, 2020, Cell Reports
  • International data governance for neuroscience, 2021, Neuron

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Thibault Renoir
  • Carolina Gubert
  • Carey Wilson
  • Geraldine Kong
  • Terence Y. Pang

Best Publications

  • Enriched environments, experience-dependent plasticity and disorders of the nervous system.

    Jess Nithianantharajah;Anthony J. Hannan

  • Delaying the onset of Huntington's in mice.

    Anton van Dellen;Colin Blakemore;Robert Deacon;Denis York

  • Tandem repeats mediating genetic plasticity in health and disease.

    Anthony J. Hannan

  • Environmental Enrichment Rescues Protein Deficits in a Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease, Indicating a Possible Disease Mechanism

    Tara L. Spires;Helen E. Grote;Neelash K. Varshney;Patricia M. Cordery

  • The neurobiology of brain and cognitive reserve: mental and physical activity as modulators of brain disorders.

    Jess Nithianantharajah;Anthony J Hannan

  • Environmental enrichment slows disease progression in R6/2 Huntington's disease mice

    Emma Hockly;Patricia M. Cordery;Benjamin Woodman;Amarbirpal Mahal

  • Effects of enriched environment on animal models of neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders.

    Giovanni Laviola;Anthony J. Hannan;Simone Macrì;Marcello Solinas

  • Exercise, diet and stress as modulators of gut microbiota: Implications for neurodegenerative diseases

    Carolina Gubert;Geraldine Kong;Thibault Renoir;Anthony J Hannan;Anthony J Hannan

  • Mutant huntingtin's effects on striatal gene expression in mice recapitulate changes observed in human Huntington's disease brain and do not differ with mutant huntingtin length or wild-type huntingtin dosage

    Alexandre Kuhn;Darlene R. Goldstein;Angela Hodges;Angela Hodges;Andrew D. Strand

  • Differential effects of voluntary physical exercise on behavioral and brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression deficits in huntington’s disease transgenic mice

    Terence Pang;Nathan Chad Stam;Jess Nithianantharajah;Monique L Howard

  • The role of epigenetic change in autism spectrum disorders

    Yuk Jing Loke;Anthony John Hannan;Jeffrey Mark Craig

  • Environmental enrichment and brain repair: harnessing the therapeutic effects of cognitive stimulation and physical activity to enhance experience-dependent plasticity.

    A. J. Hannan

  • PLC-β1, activated via mGluRs, mediates activity-dependent differentiation in cerebral cortex

    Anthony J. Hannan;Colin Blakemore;Alla Katsnelson;Tania Vitalis

  • Elevated paternal glucocorticoid exposure alters the small noncoding RNA profile in sperm and modifies anxiety and depressive phenotypes in the offspring.

    A.K. Short;K.A. Fennell;K.A. Fennell;Victoria M Perreau;A. Fox

  • Wheel running and environmental enrichment differentially modify exon-specific BDNF expression in the hippocampus of wild-type and pre-motor symptomatic male and female Huntington's disease mice.

    M.S. Zajac;T.Y.C. Pang;N. Wong;B. Weinrich

  • Tandem repeat polymorphisms: modulators of disease susceptibility and candidates for 'missing heritability'

    Anthony J. Hannan

  • Enhancement of cognitive function in models of brain disease through environmental enrichment and physical activity.

    Terence Y.C. Pang;Anthony J. Hannan

  • Environmental enrichment ameliorates a motor coordination deficit in a mouse model of Rett syndrome Mecp2 gene dosage effects and BDNF expression

    Mari Kondo;Laura J. Gray;Gregory J. Pelka;John Christodoulou;John Christodoulou

  • Gene-environment interactions modulating cognitive function and molecular correlates of synaptic plasticity in Huntington's disease transgenic mice.

    Jess Nithianantharajah;Christopher Barkus;Mark Murphy;Anthony J. Hannan

  • Dendritic spine pathology and deficits in experience-dependent dendritic plasticity in R6/1 Huntington's disease transgenic mice.

    Tara L. Spires;Helen E. Grote;Sylvia Garry;Patricia M. Cordery

  • Microbiome profiling reveals gut dysbiosis in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease.

    Geraldine Kong;Kim-Anh Lê Cao;Louise M Judd;ShanShan Li

Frequent Co-Authors

David Berle
David Berle Australian National University
Vladan Starcevic
Vladan Starcevic University of Sydney
Colin Blakemore
Colin Blakemore City University of Hong Kong
Maarten van den Buuse
Maarten van den Buuse La Trobe University
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Elizabeth Scarr
Elizabeth Scarr University of Melbourne
Brian Dean
Brian Dean Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Laurence Lanfumey
Laurence Lanfumey Université Paris Cité
Zoltán Molnár
Zoltán Molnár University of Oxford
Paul A. Adlard
Paul A. Adlard Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

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