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Bauke Buwalda is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with specific contributions to social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, endocrine and autonomic systems, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's work encompasses various topics, including:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Autism spectrum disorder research
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development

Buwalda's recent papers reflect a range of research interests and include the following publications:

  • Social withdrawal: An initially adaptive behavior that becomes maladaptive when expressed excessively, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Ovariectomy-induced depressive-like behavior and brain glucose metabolism changes in female rats are not affected by chronic mild stress, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • The human neuropsychiatric risk gene Drd2 is necessary for social functioning across evolutionary distant species, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Cross-site Reproducibility of Social Deficits in Group-housed BTBR Mice Using Automated Longitudinal Behavioural Monitoring, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Decreased dendritic spine density in posterodorsal medial amygdala neurons of proactive coping rats, 2020, Behavioural Brain Research

The most frequent publication venues for Buwalda's work include:

  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience

Buwalda has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Sietse F. de Boer
  • Martien J. Kas
  • Kevin G.O. Ike
  • Deepika Patel
  • Shobha Anilkumar

Best Publications

  • Stress revisited: a critical evaluation of the stress concept

    J.M. Koolhaas;A. Bartolomucci;B. Buwalda;S.F. de Boer

  • Neuroendocrinology of coping styles: towards understanding the biology of individual variation.

    J M Koolhaas;de Sietse Boer;C M Coppens;Bauke Buwalda

  • Individual variation in coping with stress : A multidimensional approach of ultimate and proximate mechanisms

    Jaap M. Koolhaas;Sietse F. de Boer;Bauke Buwalda;Kees van Reenen

  • The resident-intruder paradigm: a standardized test for aggression, violence and social stress.

    Jaap M. Koolhaas;Caroline M. Coppens;Sietse F. de Boer;Bauke Buwalda

  • Long-term effects of social stress on brain and behavior: a focus on hippocampal functioning

    Bauke Buwalda;Maarten H.P. Kole;Alexa H. Veenema;Mark Huininga

  • Hypoxia and brain development.

    Csaba Nyakas;Bauke Buwalda;P. Luiten

  • Effects of early life stress on adult male aggression and hypothalamic vasopressin and serotonin.

    Alexa H. Veenema;Annegret Blume;Daniela Niederle;Bauke Buwalda

  • Housing familiar male wildtype rats together reduces the long-term adverse behavioural and physiological effects of social defeat

    M.A.W Ruis;J.H.A te Brake;B Buwalda;S.F De Boer

  • Long-lasting suppression of hippocampal cell proliferation and impaired cognitive performance by methotrexate in the rat.

    Riejanne Seigers;Sanne B. Schagen;Wieteke Beerling;Willem Boogerd

  • Social stress, autonomic neural activation, and cardiac activity in rats

    A Sgoifo;A Sgoifo;J Koolhaas;de Sietse Boer;E Musso

  • Social behavior and social stress in adolescence: a focus on animal models.

    Bauke Buwalda;Moniek Geerdink;Jose Vidal;Jaap M. Koolhaas

  • Methotrexate decreases hippocampal cell proliferation and induces memory deficits in rats

    Riejanne Seigers;Sanne B. Schagen;Caroline M. Coppens;Peter J. van der Most

  • Untangling the neurobiology of coping styles in rodents: Towards neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in disease susceptibility

    Sietse F. de Boer;Bauke Buwalda;Jaap M. Koolhaas

  • Enhanced 5-HT1A receptor expression in forebrain regions of aggressive house mice.

    SM Korte;OC Meijer;ER deKloet;Bauke Buwalda

  • Long-lasting deficient dexamethasone suppression of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical activation following peripheral CRF challenge in socially defeated rats

    Bauke Buwalda;de Sietse Boer;Ed Schmidt;K. Felszeghy

  • Effects of sleep deprivation on cardiac autonomic and pituitary-adrenocortical stress reactivity in rats

    Andrea Sgoifo;Bauke Buwalda;Marjon Roos;Tania Costoli

  • Antisense to the glucocorticoid receptor in hippocampal dentate gyrus reduces immobility in forced swim test

    S.M. Korte;E.R. de Kloet;Bauke Buwalda;S.D. Bouman

  • Methotrexate reduces hippocampal blood vessel density and activates microglia in rats but does not elevate central cytokine release.

    Riejanne Seigers;Jessica Timmermans;Hans J. van der Horn;Erik F.J. de Vries

  • The acute glucocorticoid stress response does not differentiate between rewarding and aversive social stimuli in rats.

    Bauke Buwalda;Jan Scholte;Sietse F. de Boer;Caroline M. Coppens

  • Behavioral and physiological responses to stress are affected by high-fat feeding in male rats

    B. Buwalda;W.A.M. Blom;J.M. Koolhaas;G. van Dijk

  • Physiological and behavioral effects of chronic intracerebroventricular infusion of corticotropin-releasing factor in the rat

    B. Buwalda;S.F. de Boer;A.A. Van Kalkeren;J.M. Koolhaas

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaap M. Koolhaas
Jaap M. Koolhaas University of Groningen
Sietse F. de Boer
Sietse F. de Boer University of Groningen
Peter Meerlo
Peter Meerlo University of Groningen
Martien J H Kas
Martien J H Kas University of Groningen
Sumantra Chattarji
Sumantra Chattarji National Centre for Biological Sciences
Paul G.M. Luiten
Paul G.M. Luiten University of Groningen
Onno C. Meijer
Onno C. Meijer Leiden University Medical Center
Roger A.H. Adan
Roger A.H. Adan Utrecht University
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Eddy A. Van der Zee
Eddy A. Van der Zee University of Groningen

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