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Elena Choleris

Elena Choleris

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
9769
World Ranking
3911
National Ranking
225

Overview

Elena Choleris is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada. Their main fields of study include Neuroscience and Psychology, with a significant focus on Social Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research addresses a range of topics, primarily centered on neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, stress responses and cortisol, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, estrogen and related hormone effects, olfactory and sensory function studies, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Elena Choleris has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include IBRO Neuroscience Reports, Hormones and Behavior, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, and Behavioural Brain Research.

Their notable recent papers are:

  • Neuroendocrine underpinning of social recognition in males and females, 2021, Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • Pathogens, odors, and disgust in rodents, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Differential effects of progesterone on social recognition and the avoidance of pathogen threat by female mice, 2020, Hormones and Behavior
  • Social factors and the neurobiology of pathogen avoidance, 2022, Biology Letters
  • Endocrine Insights into the Pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2020, The Neuroscientist

Frequent collaborators with Elena Choleris include Martin Kavaliers, Pietro Paletta, Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp, Noah Bass, and Ashutosh Patel.

Best Publications

  • A detailed ethological analysis of the mouse open field test: effects of diazepam, chlordiazepoxide and an extremely low frequency pulsed magnetic field.

    E Choleris;A W Thomas;M Kavaliers;F S Prato

  • An estrogen-dependent four-gene micronet regulating social recognition: A study with oxytocin and estrogen receptor-α and -β knockout mice

    Elena Choleris;Jan Åke Gustafsson;Kenneth S. Korach;Louis J. Muglia

  • Antipredator responses and defensive behavior: ecological and ethological approaches for the neurosciences.

    Martin Kavaliers;Elena Choleris

  • Interplay of oxytocin, vasopressin, and sex hormones in the regulation of social recognition.

    Christopher S. Gabor;Anna Phan;Amy E. Clipperton-Allen;Martin Kavaliers

  • Neuroendocrinology of social information processing in rats and mice

    Elena Choleris;Amy E. Clipperton-Allen;Anna Phan;Martin Kavaliers

  • Sex differences in the brain: Implications for behavioral and biomedical research.

    Elena Choleris;Liisa A.M. Galea;Farida Sohrabji;Karyn M. Frick

  • Microparticle-based delivery of oxytocin receptor antisense DNA in the medial amygdala blocks social recognition in female mice

    Elena Choleris;Steven R. Little;Jessica A. Mong;Sidharth V. Puram

  • Why estrogens matter for behavior and brain health

    Liisa A.M. Galea;Karyn M. Frick;Elizabeth Hampson;Farida Sohrabji

  • Involvement of estrogen receptor α, β and oxytocin in social discrimination: a detailed behavioral analysis with knockout female mice

    E. Choleris;S. Ogawa;M. Kavaliers;Jan-Ake Gustafsson

  • Structural plasticity of the hippocampus in response to estrogens in female rodents

    Paul A. S. Sheppard;Elena Choleris;Liisa A. M. Galea

  • Olfactory-mediated parasite recognition and avoidance: linking genes to behavior

    Martin Kavaliers;Elena Choleris;Anders Ågmo;Donald W. Pfaff

  • Rapid effects of estrogen receptor α and β selective agonists on learning and dendritic spines in female mice.

    Anna Phan;Karla E. Lancaster;John N. Armstrong;Neil J. MacLusky

  • Low Doses of 17β-Estradiol Rapidly Improve Learning and Increase Hippocampal Dendritic Spines

    Anna Phan;Christopher S Gabor;Kayla J Favaro;Shayna Kaschack

  • Estrogen involvement in social behavior in rodents: Rapid and long-term actions.

    Kelsy S.J. Ervin;Jennifer M. Lymer;Richard Matta;Amy E. Clipperton-Allen

  • Pain perception and electromagnetic fields.

    Cristina Del Seppia;Sergio Ghione;Paolo Luschi;Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp

  • Estradiol differentially regulates lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase transcript levels in the rodent brain: Evidence from high-density oligonucleotide arrays and in situ hybridization

    Jessica A. Mong;Nino Devidze;Donald E. Frail;Lawrence T. O'Connor

  • Shielding, but not zeroing of the ambient magnetic field reduces stress-induced analgesia in mice

    E. Choleris;E. Choleris;C. Del Seppia;A. W. Thomas;P. Luschi

  • Decreased cADPR and increased NAD+ in the Cd38-/- mouse.

    Genevieve S. Young;Elena Choleris;Frances E. Lund;James B. Kirkland

  • Recognition and avoidance of the odors of parasitized conspecifics and predators: differential genomic correlates.

    Martin Kavaliers;Elena Choleris;Donald W. Pfaff

  • Rapid increases in immature synapses parallel estrogen-induced hippocampal learning enhancements

    Anna Phan;Sarah Suschkov;Luke Molinaro;Kathryn Reynolds

  • Brief exposure to female odors "emboldens" male mice by reducing predator-induced behavioral and hormonal responses.

    Martin Kavaliers;Elena Choleris;Douglass D. Colwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kavaliers
Martin Kavaliers University of Western Ontario
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Paola Valsecchi
Paola Valsecchi University of Parma
Neil J. MacLusky
Neil J. MacLusky University of Guelph
Georgia Mason
Georgia Mason University of Guelph
Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp
Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp University of Western Ontario
Liisa A.M. Galea
Liisa A.M. Galea University of British Columbia
Farida Sohrabji
Farida Sohrabji Texas A&M University
Anders Ågmo
Anders Ågmo University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Jessica A. Mong
Jessica A. Mong University of Maryland, Baltimore

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