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Elena I. Varlinskaya

Elena I. Varlinskaya

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Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
8080
World Ranking
5981
National Ranking
3240

Overview

Elena I. Varlinskaya is affiliated with Binghamton University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and medicine, with a total of 62 publications in neuroscience and 34 in medicine. Within these broad fields, their work particularly addresses cellular and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, neurology, and social psychology.

The main research topics covered by Elena I. Varlinskaya include:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Birth, Development, and Health

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of venues, with notable frequency in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Alcohol
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Frequent coauthors in their work include David F. Werner, Terrence Deak, Andrew S. Vore, Trevor T. Towner, and Thaddeus M. Barney.

Recent papers authored by Elena I. Varlinskaya reflect a focus on adolescent alcohol exposure, neuroimmune responses, and sex-specific neurobiological effects:

  • The role of sex in the persistent effects of adolescent alcohol exposure on behavior and neurobiology in rodents (2021, International Review of Neurobiology)
  • Adolescent Ethanol Exposure: Anxiety-Like Behavioral Alterations, Ethanol Intake, and Sensitivity (2020, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • Adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) produces sex specific alterations in adult neuroimmune gene expression and ethanol sensitivity that are independent of ethanol metabolism (2021, Neuropharmacology)
  • Assessment of neuroinflammation in the aging hippocampus using large-molecule microdialysis: Sex differences and role of purinergic receptors (2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • Adolescent intermittent ethanol exposure produces Sex-Specific changes in BBB Permeability: A potential role for VEGFA (2022, Brain Behavior and Immunity)

Best Publications

  • Motivational systems in adolescence: possible implications for age differences in substance abuse and other risk-taking behaviors.

    Tamara L. Doremus-Fitzwater;Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Rewarding properties of social interactions in adolescent and adult male and female rats: impact of social versus isolate housing of subjects and partners.

    Lewis A. Douglas;Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Acute effects of ethanol on social behavior of adolescent and adult rats: role of familiarity of the test situation.

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Nicotine-induced conditioned place preference in adolescent and adult rats.

    Bonnie J Vastola;Lewis A Douglas;Elena I Varlinskaya;Linda P Spear

  • Anxiogenic effects during withdrawal from acute ethanol in adolescent and adult rats.

    Tamara L Doremus;Steven C Brunell;Elena I Varlinskaya;Linda Patia Spear

  • Adolescence. Alcohol sensitivity, tolerance, and intake.

    Linda Patia Spear;Elena I Varlinskaya

  • Sex differences in ethanol intake and sensitivity to aversive effects during adolescence and adulthood.

    Courtney Vetter-O’Hagen;Elena Varlinskaya;Linda Spear

  • Social interactions in adolescent and adult Sprague–Dawley rats: Impact of social deprivation and test context familiarity

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Social and non-social anxiety in adolescent and adult rats after repeated restraint.

    Tamara L. Doremus-Fitzwater;Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Social behavior and social motivation in adolescent rats: role of housing conditions and partner's activity.

    Elena I Varlinskaya;Linda P Spear;Norman E Spear

  • Novel-object place conditioning in adolescent and adult male and female rats: effects of social isolation.

    Lewis A. Douglas;Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Acute ethanol withdrawal (hangover) and social behavior in adolescent and adult male and female Sprague-Dawley rats.

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Sensitivity to ethanol and other hedonic stimuli in an animal model of adolescence: implications for prevention science?

    Linda Patia Spear;Elena I. Varlinskaya

  • Ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion in male sprague-dawley rats: impact of age and stress.

    Rachel I. Anderson;Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Differences in the social consequences of ethanol emerge during the course of adolescence in rats: social facilitation, social inhibition, and anxiolysis.

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Chronic intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence: effects on social behavior and ethanol sensitivity in adulthood.

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Eric Truxell;Linda P. Spear

  • Acute Effects of Ethanol on Behavior of Adolescent Rats: Role of Social Context

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear;Norman E. Spear

  • Acute prenatal exposure to ethanol and social behavior: effects of age, sex, and timing of exposure.

    Sandra M. Mooney;Elena I. Varlinskaya

  • Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Exposure in Early Adolescent and Adult Male Rats: Effects on Tolerance, Social Behavior, and Ethanol Intake

    Margaret Broadwater;Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Ethanol-Induced Social Facilitation in Adolescent Rats: Role of Endogenous Activity at Mu Opioid Receptors

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

  • Increases in anxiety-like behavior induced by acute stress are reversed by ethanol in adolescent but not adult rats.

    Elena I. Varlinskaya;Linda P. Spear

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda P. Spear
Linda P. Spear Binghamton University
Norman E. Spear
Norman E. Spear Binghamton University
Juan Carlos Molina
Juan Carlos Molina National University of Córdoba

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