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Jessica A. Mong is a researcher affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, endocrine and autonomic systems, experimental and cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and sensory systems.

The scientist's research topics reflect an interest in sleep and wakefulness research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, sleep and related disorders, stress responses and cortisol, as well as hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, and noise effects and management.

Jessica A. Mong has published numerous papers in various venues, including several recent contributions. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Estradiol Protects against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Modulates Auditory Physiology in Female Mice," 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Prenatal Kynurenine Elevation Elicits Sex-Dependent Changes in Sleep and Arousal During Adulthood: Implications for Psychotic Disorders," 2021, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • "Estradiol Influences Adenosinergic Signaling and Nonrapid Eye Movement Sleep Need in Adult Female Rats," 2021, SLEEP
  • "Estradiol Action at the Median Preoptic Nucleus is Necessary and Sufficient for Sleep Suppression in Female Rats," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Oral Administration of Ethinyl Estradiol and the Brain-Selective Estrogen Prodrug DHED in a Female Common Marmoset Model of Menopause: Effects on Cognition, Thermoregulation, and Sleep," 2024, Hormones and Behavior

Jessica A. Mong frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Shaun S. Viechweg, Carissa Byrd, Philip Coleridge Smith, Ana Pocivavsek, and Derrick J. Phillips.

Their publications appear repeatedly in journals such as SLEEP, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Neuroscience, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Best Publications

  • Sex differences in sleep: impact of biological sex and sex steroids

    Jessica A. Mong;Danielle M. Cusmano

  • Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase causes delayed neurotoxicity in primary mixed neuronal-glial cortical cultures.

    V.L. Dawson;H.P. Brahmbhatt;J.A. Mong;T.M. Dawson

  • Sleep, Rhythms, and the Endocrine Brain: Influence of Sex and Gonadal Hormones

    Jessica A. Mong;Fiona C. Baker;Fiona C. Baker;Megan M. Mahoney;Ketema N. Paul

  • Cellular and subcellular localization of NMDA-R1 subunit immunoreactivity in the visual cortex of adult and neonatal rats

    Chiye Aoki;Charu Venkatesan;C. G. Go;Jessica A. Mong

  • Gonadal Steroids Promote Glial Differentiation and Alter Neuronal Morphology in the Developing Hypothalamus in a Regionally Specific Manner

    Jessica A. Mong;Edmund Glaser;Margaret M. McCarthy

  • Neuronal nitric oxide synthase is induced in spinal neurons by traumatic injury.

    W. Wu;F.J. Liuzzi;F.P. Schinco;A.S. Depto

  • 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

  • Steroid-induced developmental plasticity in hypothalamic astrocytes: implications for synaptic patterning.

    Jessica A. Mong;Margaret M. McCarthy

  • 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

  • Evidence for sexual differentiation of glia in rat brain.

    Jessica A. Mong;Rachel L. Kurzweil;Aline M. Davis;Meredith S. Rocca

  • GABA mediates steroid-induced astrocyte differentiation in the neonatal rat hypothalamus.

    J. A. Mong;J. L. Nuñez;M. M. McCarthy

  • Estradiol suppresses rapid eye movement sleep and activation of sleep-active neurons in the ventrolateral preoptic area

    Maria M. Hadjimarkou;Rebecca Benham;Jaclyn M. Schwarz;Mary K. Holder

  • Sex differences in hearing: Probing the role of estrogen signaling

    Benjamin Z Shuster;Didier A Depireux;Jessica A Mong;Ronna Hertzano

  • The impact of biological sex on the response to noise and otoprotective therapies against acoustic injury in mice

    Béatrice Milon;Sunayana Mitra;Yang Song;Zachary Margulies

  • Excitatory Neurotransmission and Sexual Differentiation of the Brain

    Margaret M McCarthy;Aline M Davis;Jessica A Mong

  • Gonadal steroids reduce the density of axospinous synapses in the developing rat arcuate nucleus: an electron microscopy analysis.

    Jessica A. Mong;Rosalinda C. Roberts;Joyce J. Kelly;Margaret M. McCarthy

  • Estradiol modulates recovery of REM sleep in a time-of-day-dependent manner.

    Michael D. Schwartz;Jessica A. Mong

  • Ontogeny of sexually dimorphic astrocytes in the neonatal rat arcuate.

    Jessica A Mong;Margaret M McCarthy

  • Steroid Modulation of Astrocytes in the Neonatal Brain: Implications for Adult Reproductive Function

    Margaret M. McCarthy;Stuart K. Amateau;Jessica A. Mong

  • Estradiol modulation of astrocytic form and function: implications for hormonal control of synaptic communication.

    J.A. Mong;T. Blutstein

  • Reduction of lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase in the preoptic area of female mice mimics estradiol effects on arousal and sex behavior.

    Jessica A. Mong;Nino Devidze;Andrew Goodwillie;Donald W. Pfaff

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Margaret M. McCarthy
Margaret M. McCarthy University of Maryland, Baltimore
Elena Choleris
Elena Choleris University of Guelph
Ted M. Dawson
Ted M. Dawson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rae Silver
Rae Silver Columbia University
Lee-Ming Kow
Lee-Ming Kow Rockefeller University
Kazue Semba
Kazue Semba Dalhousie University
Fiona C. Baker
Fiona C. Baker SRI International
Anthony P. Auger
Anthony P. Auger University of Wisconsin–Madison

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