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2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
40
Citations
6021
World Ranking
8119
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Christina Dalla is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their primary fields of study focus on Neuroscience and Medicine, with a substantial number of publications in both areas. Within these broad disciplines, Dalla's work emphasizes several subfields, including Behavioral Neuroscience, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research covers a range of significant topics, such as Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Sex and Gender in Healthcare, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Animal Testing and Alternatives, and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Christina Dalla's recent publications showcase their involvement in advancing knowledge on sex differences, stress, and neuropharmacology. Notable papers include:

  • "Antidepressants' effects on testosterone and estrogens: What do we know?" (2021), published in the European Journal of Pharmacology
  • "Sex Differences in Depression and Anxiety" (2022), featured in Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
  • "Sex Differences in Stress Response: Classical Mechanisms and Beyond" (2023), published in Current Neuropharmacology
  • "Do corticosterone levels predict female depressive-like behavior in rodents?" (2020), appearing in the Journal of Neuroscience Research
  • "Practical solutions for including sex as a biological variable (SABV) in preclinical neuropsychopharmacological research" (2023), published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Dalla frequently collaborates with several researchers, notably Nikolaos Kokras, Pavlina Pavlidi, Ioannis Sotiropoulos, Katerina Antoniou, and Thomas Steckler. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary efforts spanning behavioral neuroscience and neuropharmacology.

Their work has been published multiple times in specific venues, indicating a consistent presence in those journals. These venues include Neuroscience Applied, Journal of Neuroscience Research, Neuropharmacology, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and the European Journal of Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Sex differences in learning processes of classical and operant conditioning

    Christina Dalla;Tracey J. Shors

  • Chronic mild stress impact: Are females more vulnerable?

    C. Dalla;K. Antoniou;G. Drossopoulou;M. Xagoraris

  • Sex differences in animal models of psychiatric disorders.

    N Kokras;C Dalla

  • Sex Differences in Animal Models of Depression and Antidepressant Response

    Christina Dalla;Pothitos M. Pitychoutis;Nikolaos Kokras;Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti

  • Sex differences in behavioral, neurochemical and neuroendocrine effects induced by the forced swim test in rats.

    G Drossopoulou;K Antoniou;E Kitraki;G Papathanasiou

  • Sex differences in the effects of two stress paradigms on dopaminergic neurotransmission.

    C. Dalla;K. Antoniou;N. Kokras;G. Drossopoulou

  • Females do not express learned helplessness like males do.

    Christina Dalla;Carol Edgecomb;Abigail S Whetstone;Tracey J Shors

  • Sex differences in response to stress and expression of depressive-like behaviours in the rat.

    Christina Dalla;Pothitos M. Pitychoutis;Nikolaos Kokras;Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti

  • Forced swim test: What about females?

    Nikolaos Kokras;Katerina Antoniou;Hudu G. Mikail;Vasilios Kafetzopoulos

  • Neurogenesis and Helplessness Are Mediated by Controllability in Males But Not in Females

    Tracey J. Shors;Jason Mathew;Helene M. Sisti;Carol Edgecomb

  • Tau protein is essential for stress-induced brain pathology

    Sofia Lopes;João Vaz-Silva;Vitor Pinto;Christina Dalla

  • Female rats learn trace memories better than male rats and consequently retain a greater proportion of new neurons in their hippocampi

    Christina Dalla;Efstathios B. Papachristos;Abigail S. Whetstone;Tracey J. Shors

  • Effects of light spectrum on growth and physiological status of gilthead seabream Sparus aurata and rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss reared under recirculating system conditions

    Nafsika Karakatsouli;Sofronios E. Papoutsoglou;Gianluca Pizzonia;Georgios Tsatsos

  • Oestrogen-deficient female aromatase knockout (ArKO) mice exhibit depressive-like symptomatology.

    C. Dalla;K. Antoniou;Z. Papadopoulou-Daifoti;Jacques Balthazart

  • Estradiol rapidly activates male sexual behavior and affects brain monoamine levels in the quail brain.

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Christina Dalla;Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti;Michelle Baillien

  • Behavioral sexual dimorphism in models of anxiety and depression due to changes in HPA axis activity.

    Nikolaos Kokras;Christina Dalla;Antonios C. Sideris;Artemis Dendi

  • Sex differences in pharmacokinetics of antidepressants

    Nikolaos Kokras;Christina Dalla;Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti

  • Sex differences in oxidant/antioxidant balance under a chronic mild stress regime.

    E.F. Kamper;A. Chatzigeorgiou;O. Tsimpoukidi;M. Kamper

  • Preclinical sex differences in depression and antidepressant response: Implications for clinical research

    Nikolaos Kokras;Christina Dalla

  • Neurogenesis and learning: acquisition and asymptotic performance predict how many new cells survive in the hippocampus.

    Christina Dalla;Debra A. Bangasser;Carol Edgecomb;Tracey J. Shors

Frequent Co-Authors

Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti
Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nuno Sousa
Nuno Sousa University of Minho
Jodi L. Pawluski
Jodi L. Pawluski University of Rennes
Tracey J. Shors
Tracey J. Shors Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Osborne F. X. Almeida
Osborne F. X. Almeida Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Thierry Charlier
Thierry Charlier Université de Rennes
Charlotte Cornil
Charlotte Cornil University of Liège
Martien J H Kas
Martien J H Kas University of Groningen
Fernanda Marques
Fernanda Marques University of Minho
Debra A. Bangasser
Debra A. Bangasser Georgia State University

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