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Cheryl D. Conrad is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on various aspects of neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on stress responses and neuroendocrine regulation.

Their published work covers a range of topics including stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, pregnancy-related medical research, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Major fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these, Conrad concentrates on subfields such as behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

Frequent publication venues for Conrad's work include:

  • Learning & Memory
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Hippocampus

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Cheryl D. Conrad are:

  • Chronic unpredictable intermittent restraint stress disrupts spatial memory in male, but not female rats, 2020, Behavioural Brain Research
  • Estrous Cycle Modulation of Feeding and Relaxin-3/Rxfp3 mRNA Expression: Implications for Estradiol Action, 2020, Neuroendocrinology
  • Corticosterone disrupts spatial working memory during retention testing when highly taxed, which positively correlates with depressive-like behavior in middle-aged, ovariectomized female rats, 2024, Hormones and Behavior
  • Chronic stress has different immediate and delayed effects on hippocampal calretinin- and somatostatin-positive cells, 2020, Hippocampus
  • A Tribute to Bruce S. McEwen, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences

Conrad frequently collaborates with several researchers in related areas, including Dylan N. Peay, Amanda M. Acuña, Megan E. Donnay, Jessica M. Judd, and J. Bryce Ortiz.

Best Publications

  • Chronic stress impairs rat spatial memory on the Y maze, and this effect is blocked by tianeptine pretreatment.

    Cheryl D. Conrad;Liisa A. M. Galea;Yasukazu Kuroda;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Repeated restraint stress facilitates fear conditioning independently of causing hippocampal CA3 dendritic atrophy.

    Cheryl D. Conrad;Joseph E. LeDoux;Ana María Magariños;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Chronic Stress-Induced Hippocampal Vulnerability: The Glucocorticoid Vulnerability Hypothesis

    Cheryl D. Conrad

  • A critical review of chronic stress effects on spatial learning and memory

    Cheryl D. Conrad

  • The effects of chronic stress on hippocampal morphology and function: an evaluation of chronic restraint paradigms.

    Katie J. McLaughlin;Juan L. Gomez;Juan L. Gomez;Sarah E. Baran;Cheryl D. Conrad

  • Stress history and pubertal development interact to shape hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis plasticity.

    Russell D. Romeo;Rudy Bellani;Rudy Bellani;Ilia N. Karatsoreos;Nara Chhua

  • Sex differences in spatial and non-spatial Y-maze performance after chronic stress

    Cheryl D Conrad;Katherine A Grote;Rebecca J Hobbs;Angelique Ferayorni

  • What Is the Functional Significance of Chronic Stress-Induced CA3 Dendritic Retraction Within the Hippocampus?:

    Cheryl D. Conrad

  • Acute stress impairs spatial memory in male but not female rats: influence of estrous cycle.

    Cheryl D Conrad;Jamie L Jackson;Lindsay Wieczorek;Sarah E Baran

  • Influence of predator stress on the consolidation versus retrieval of long-term spatial memory and hippocampal spinogenesis.

    David M. Diamond;Adam M. Campbell;Collin R. Park;James C. Woodson

  • Chronic stress and sex differences on the recall of fear conditioning and extinction.

    Sarah E. Baran;Charles E. Armstrong;Danielle C. Niren;Jeffery J. Hanna

  • Support for a bimodal role for type II adrenal steroid receptors in spatial memory.

    Cheryl D. Conrad;Sonia J. Lupien;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Chronic Stress Impairs Spatial Memory and Motivation for Reward Without Disrupting Motor Ability and Motivation to Explore

    Jonathan K. Kleen;Matthew T. Sitomer;Peter R. Killeen;Cheryl D. Conrad

  • Prevention of stress-induced morphological and cognitive consequences

    Bruce S McEwen;Cheryl D Conrad;Yasukazu Kuroda;Maya Frankfurt

  • Acute predator stress impairs the consolidation and retrieval of hippocampus-dependent memory in male and female rats

    Collin R. Park;Phillip R. Zoladz;Phillip R. Zoladz;Cheryl D. Conrad;Monika Fleshner

  • Acute episodes of predator exposure in conjunction with chronic social instability as an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder

    Phillip R. Zoladz;Cheryl D. Conrad;Monika Fleshner;David M. Diamond

  • Attenuating corticosterone levels on the day of memory assessment prevents chronic stress-induced impairments in spatial memory.

    Ryan L. Wright;Elizabeth N. Lightner;James S. Harman;Onno C. Meijer

  • Chronic Stress- and Sex-Specific Neuromorphological and Functional Changes in Limbic Structures

    Katie J. McLaughlin;Sarah E. Baran;Cheryl D. Conrad

  • Chronic glucocorticoids increase hippocampal vulnerability to neurotoxicity under conditions that produce CA3 dendritic retraction but fail to impair spatial recognition memory.

    Cheryl D. Conrad;Katie J. McLaughlin;James S. Harman;Cainan Foltz

  • The effects of type I and type II corticosteroid receptor agonists on exploratory behavior and spatial memory in the Y-maze

    Cheryl D Conrad;Sonia J Lupien;Sonia J Lupien;Leila C Thanasoulis;Bruce S McEwen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
David M. Diamond
David M. Diamond University of South Florida
Sonia J. Lupien
Sonia J. Lupien University of Montreal
Liisa A.M. Galea
Liisa A.M. Galea University of British Columbia
Donna L. Korol
Donna L. Korol Syracuse University
Roberta Diaz Brinton
Roberta Diaz Brinton University of Arizona
Onno C. Meijer
Onno C. Meijer Leiden University Medical Center
Adam D. Bachstetter
Adam D. Bachstetter University of Kentucky
Peter R. Killeen
Peter R. Killeen Arizona State University
Linda J. Luecken
Linda J. Luecken Arizona State University

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