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David R. Rubinow is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans across medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, behavioral neuroscience, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Subfields of study covered in their work are:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

David R. Rubinow's primary research topics focus on:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Menstrual Health and Disorders
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

The scientist has recently published several papers, including:

  • Effect of brexanolone on depressive symptoms, anxiety, and insomnia in women with postpartum depression: Pooled analyses from 3 double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials in the HUMMINGBIRD clinical program, 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Reduction in Left Frontal Alpha Oscillations by Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation in Major Depressive Disorder Is Context Dependent in a Randomized Clinical Trial, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • HPA axis regulation and epigenetic programming of immune-related genes in chronically stressed and non-stressed mid-life women, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Effects of acute estradiol and progesterone on perimenstrual exacerbation of suicidal ideation and related symptoms: a crossover randomized controlled trial, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • Test-statistic inflation in methylome-wide association studies, 2020, Epigenetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David R. Rubinow include:

  • Crystal Edler Schiller
  • Susan S. Girdler
  • Peter J. Schmidt
  • Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul
  • Flavio Fröhlich

The scientist's work is predominantly published in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • American Journal of Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Effects of Gonadal Steroids in Women With a History of Postpartum Depression

    Miki Bloch;Peter J. Schmidt;Merry Danaceau;Jean Murphy

  • DIFFERENTIAL BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF GONADAL STEROIDS IN WOMEN WITH AND IN THOSE WITHOUT PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME

    Peter J. Schmidt;Lynnette K. Nieman;Merry A. Danaceau;Linda F. Adams

  • Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement

    Richard J. Santen;D. Craig Allred;Stacy P. Ardoin;David F. Archer

  • The epidemiology of DSM-III-R bipolar I disorder in a general population survey

    Ronald C. Kessler;D. R. Rubinow;C. Holmes;J. M. Abelson

  • Estrogen replacement in perimenopause-related depression: A preliminary report ☆

    Peter J. Schmidt;Lynnette Nieman;Merry A. Danaceau;Marie B. Tobin

  • Quinolinic acid in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in HIV-1 infection: relationship to clinical and neurological status.

    Melvyn P. Heyes;Bruce J. Brew;Alex Martin;Richard W. Price

  • Endocrine factors in the etiology of postpartum depression

    Miki Bloch;Robert C Daly;David R Rubinow

  • Menstrual cycle phase modulates reward-related neural function in women

    Jean Claude Dreher;Peter J. Schmidt;Philip Kohn;Daniella Furman

  • Estrogen–serotonin interactions: implications for affective regulation

    David R Rubinow;Peter J Schmidt;Catherine A Roca

  • The Neuropsychiatric Effects of Treatment with Interleukin-2 and Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells

    Kirk D. Denicoff;David R. Rubinow;Moshe Z. Papa;Colleen Simpson

  • Androgens, Brain, and Behavior

    David R. Rubinow;Peter J. Schmidt

  • Cognitive effects of corticosteroids.

    Owen M. Wolkowitz;Victor I. Reus;Victor I. Reus;Victor I. Reus;Herbert Weingartner;Herbert Weingartner;Herbert Weingartner;Karen Thompson;Karen Thompson;Karen Thompson

  • Neuropsychiatric Effects of Anabolic Steroids in Male Normal Volunteers

    Tung Ping Su;Michael Pagliaro;Peter J. Schmidt;David Pickar

  • Brexanolone injection in post-partum depression: two multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials

    Samantha E Meltzer-Brody;Helen Colquhoun;Robert Riesenberg;C. Neill Epperson

  • Conditioning and sensitisation in the longitudinal course of affective illness.

    Robert M. Post;David R. Rubinow;James C. Ballenger

  • The role of reproductive hormones in postpartum depression.

    Crystal Edler Schiller;Samantha Meltzer-Brody;David R. Rubinow

  • Effects of vasopressin on human memory functions

    Herbert Weingartner;Philip Gold;James C. Ballenger;Sheila A. Smallberg

  • Effects of ovarian hormones on human cortical excitability.

    Mark J. Smith;Linda F. Adams;Peter J. Schmidt;David R. Rubinow

  • Modulation of cognition-specific cortical activity by gonadal steroids: A positron-emission tomography study in women

    Karen Faith Berman;Peter J. Schmidt;David R. Rubinow;Merry A. Danaceau

  • Premenstrual syndromes: Overview from a methodologic perspective

    Rubinow Dr;Roy-Byrne P

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Post
Robert M. Post George Washington University
Peter Roy-Byrne
Peter Roy-Byrne University of Washington
Philip W. Gold
Philip W. Gold National Institutes of Health
Markku Linnoila
Markku Linnoila University of Helsinki
Owen M. Wolkowitz
Owen M. Wolkowitz University of California, San Francisco
Lynnette K. Nieman
Lynnette K. Nieman National Institutes of Health
David Pickar
David Pickar National Institutes of Health
Jeffery L. Barker
Jeffery L. Barker National Institutes of Health
Dennis L. Murphy
Dennis L. Murphy National Institutes of Health
George P. Chrousos
George P. Chrousos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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