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Overview

Craig A. Stockmeier is affiliated with the University of Mississippi Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields with a focus on neuroscience and molecular biology.

The scientist's work mainly addresses the areas of neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Subfields prominently featured in their publications include clinical psychology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biological psychiatry, and psychiatry and mental health.

Among the key topics explored by Craig A. Stockmeier are suicide and self-harm studies, tryptophan and brain disorders, neuropeptides and animal physiology, grief, bereavement, and mental health, bipolar disorder and treatment, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, as well as stress responses and cortisol.

Craig A. Stockmeier has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Grażyna Rajkowska, James C. Overholser, Gouri Mahajan, Eleanor E. Beale, and Jake Valeri.

Their research has been published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Genes
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology

Representative recent publications include:

  • Venlafaxine Stimulates an MMP-9-Dependent Increase in Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance in a Stress Model of Depression, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Markers of elevated oxidative stress in oligodendrocytes captured from the brainstem and occipital cortex in major depressive disorder and suicide, 2022, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Depression and alcohol use disorders as precursors to death by suicide, 2020, Death Studies
  • Transcriptome Analysis of Post-Mortem Brain Tissue Reveals Up-Regulation of the Complement Cascade in a Subgroup of Schizophrenia Patients, 2021, Genes
  • Suicide among older adults: Interactions among key risk factors, 2020, The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Morphometric evidence for neuronal and glial prefrontal cell pathology in major depression

    Grazyna Rajkowska;José J Miguel-Hidalgo;Jinrong Wei;Ginny Dilley

  • Decreased expression of synapse-related genes and loss of synapses in major depressive disorder

    Hyo Jung Kang;Bhavya Voleti;Tibor Hajszan;Tibor Hajszan;Grazyna Rajkowska

  • Cellular changes in the postmortem hippocampus in major depression.

    Craig A. Stockmeier;Craig A. Stockmeier;Gouri J. Mahajan;Lisa C. Konick;James C. Overholser

  • Astrocyte Pathology in Major Depressive Disorder: Insights from Human Postmortem Brain Tissue

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Craig A Stockmeier

  • Increase in serotonin-1A autoreceptors in the midbrain of suicide victims with major depression-postmortem evidence for decreased serotonin activity.

    Craig A. Stockmeier;Laura A. Shapiro;Ginny E. Dilley;Tamara N. Kolli

  • Reduced Levels of Norepinephrine Transporters in the Locus Coeruleus in Major Depression

    Violetta Klimek;Craig Stockmeier;James Overholser;Herbert Y. Meltzer

  • GABAergic neurons immunoreactive for calcium binding proteins are reduced in the prefrontal cortex in major depression.

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Gillian O'Dwyer;Zsofia Teleki;Craig A Stockmeier;Craig A Stockmeier

  • Increased nicotinic receptors in brains from smokers: membrane binding and autoradiography studies.

    David C. Perry;Martha I. Dávila-Garcı́a;Craig A. Stockmeier;Kenneth J. Kellar

  • A negative regulator of MAP kinase causes depressive behavior

    Vanja Duric;Mounira Banasr;Pawel Licznerski;Heath D Schmidt

  • Reduced levels of NR2A and NR2B subunits of NMDA receptor and PSD-95 in the prefrontal cortex in major depression.

    Anteneh M. Feyissa;Agata Chandran;Craig A. Stockmeier;Craig A. Stockmeier;Beata Karolewicz

  • The mTOR signaling pathway in the prefrontal cortex is compromised in major depressive disorder.

    Courtney S. Jernigan;Dharmendra B. Goswami;Mark C. Austin;Abiye H. Iyo

  • Involvement of serotonin in depression: evidence from postmortem and imaging studies of serotonin receptors and the serotonin transporter

    Craig A. Stockmeier

  • Glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity in the prefrontal cortex distinguishes younger from older adults in major depressive disorder

    José Javier Miguel-Hidalgo;Christie Baucom;Ginny Dilley;James C Overholser

  • Altered expression of synapse and glutamate related genes in post-mortem hippocampus of depressed subjects

    Vanja Duric;Mounira Banasr;Craig A. Stockmeier;Craig A. Stockmeier;Arthur A. Simen

  • RNA editing of the human serotonin 5-HT2C receptor. alterations in suicide and implications for serotonergic pharmacotherapy.

    Colleen M Niswender;Colleen M Niswender;Katherine Herrick-Davis;Ginney E Dilley;Herbert Y Meltzer

  • Reduced Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Density in Major Depression Determined by [11C]ABP688 PET and Postmortem Study

    Alexandra Deschwanden;Beata Karolewicz;Anteneh M. Feyissa;Valerie Treyer

  • Age-Dependent Reductions in the Level of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in the Prefrontal Cortex in Major Depression

    Xiaohong Si;Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo;Gillian O'Dwyer;Craig A Stockmeier

  • REDD1 is essential for stress-induced synaptic loss and depressive behavior

    Kristie T Ota;Rong-Jian Liu;Bhavya Voleti;Jaime G Maldonado-Aviles

  • Density of GFAP-immunoreactive astrocytes is decreased in left hippocampi in major depressive disorder.

    J.A. Cobb;K. O’Neill;J. Milner;G.J. Mahajan

  • Dopaminergic abnormalities in amygdaloid nuclei in major depression: a postmortem study

    Violetta Klimek;Jane E Schenck;Hui Han;Craig A Stockmeier

Frequent Co-Authors

Grazyna Rajkowska
Grazyna Rajkowska University of Mississippi Medical Center
James C. Overholser
James C. Overholser Case Western Reserve University
Herbert Y. Meltzer
Herbert Y. Meltzer Northwestern University
Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo
Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo University of Mississippi Medical Center
Gregory A. Ordway
Gregory A. Ordway University of Mississippi Medical Center
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul R. Albert
Paul R. Albert Ottawa Hospital
David C. Steffens
David C. Steffens University of Connecticut
Ronald S. Duman
Ronald S. Duman Yale University
Mark A. Frye
Mark A. Frye University of California, Los Angeles

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