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Karyn M. Frick is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work deeply involves Genetics, Behavioral Neuroscience, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, as well as Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The main topics of study for Karyn M. Frick include estrogen and related hormone effects, stress responses and cortisol, health impacts and treatments related to menopause, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and histone deacetylase inhibitors research.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Frick include:

  • Aaron W. Fleischer
  • Lisa R. Taxier
  • Jason York
  • Mary Jo LaDu
  • Sarah B. Beamish

Karyn M. Frick has published regularly in a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Neurobiology of Aging

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Frick include:

  • "Oestradiol as a neuromodulator of learning and memory," 2020, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • "On the role of sex steroids in biological functions by classical and non-classical pathways. An update," 2021, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
  • "New perspectives on sex differences in learning and memory," 2023, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • "Long-term oral administration of a novel estrogen receptor beta agonist enhances memory and alleviates drug-induced vasodilation in young ovariectomized mice," 2021, Hormones and Behavior
  • "Estradiol effects on spatial memory in women," 2021, Behavioural Brain Research

Best Publications

  • Age-related spatial reference and working memory deficits assessed in the water maze

    Karyn M. Frick;Mark G. Baxter;Alicja L. Markowska;David S. Olton

  • Enrichment enhances spatial memory and increases synaptophysin levels in aged female mice

    Karyn M. Frick;Stephanie M. Fernandez

  • Estradiol-Induced Enhancement of Object Memory Consolidation Involves Hippocampal Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Activation and Membrane-Bound Estrogen Receptors

    Stephanie M. Fernandez;Michael C. Lewis;Angela S. Pechenino;Lauren L. Harburger

  • Reference memory, anxiety and estrous cyclicity in C57BL/6NIA mice are affected by age and sex.

    K.M. Frick;L.A. Burlingame;J.A. Arters;J. Berger-Sweeney

  • Estrogen replacement improves spatial reference memory and increases hippocampal synaptophysin in aged female mice

    K.M Frick;S.M Fernandez;S.C Bulinski

  • Estrogens and age-related memory decline in rodents: what have we learned and where do we go from here?

    Karyn M. Frick

  • Long-term continuous, but not daily, environmental enrichment reduces spatial memory decline in aged male mice.

    Jennifer C. Bennett;Paulette A. McRae;Lauren J. Levy;Karyn M. Frick

  • Epigenetic alterations regulate estradiol-induced enhancement of memory consolidation

    Zaorui Zhao;Lu Fan;Karyn M. Frick

  • Sex differences in the behavioral response to spatial and object novelty in adult C57BL/6 mice.

    Karyn M. Frick;Jodi E. Gresack

  • Sex steroid hormones matter for learning and memory: estrogenic regulation of hippocampal function in male and female rodents.

    Karyn M. Frick;Jaekyoon Kim;Jennifer J. Tuscher;Ashley M. Fortress

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

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

  • Different types of environmental enrichment have discrepant effects on spatial memory and synaptophysin levels in female mice.

    Talley J. Lambert;Stephanie M. Fernandez;Karyn M. Frick

  • The memory-enhancing effects of hippocampal estrogen receptor activation involve metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling.

    Marissa I. Boulware;John D. Heisler;Karyn M. Frick

  • Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Spatial Memory and Neurochemistry in Middle-Aged Mice

    Karyn M. Frick;Nancy A. Stearns;Jing-Yu Pan;Joanne Berger-Sweeney

  • Estradiol-Induced Object Memory Consolidation in Middle-Aged Female Mice Requires Dorsal Hippocampal Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Activation

    Lu Fan;Zaorui Zhao;Patrick T. Orr;Cassie H. Chambers

  • Why estrogens matter for behavior and brain health

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

  • Mice are not little rats: species differences in a one-day water maze task.

    Karyn M. Frick;Erica T. Stillner;Joanne Berger-Sweeney

  • Molecular mechanisms underlying the memory-enhancing effects of estradiol

    Karyn M. Frick

  • Oestradiol as a neuromodulator of learning and memory.

    Lisa R. Taxier;Kellie S. Gross;Karyn M. Frick

  • Post-training estrogen enhances spatial and object memory consolidation in female mice.

    Jodi E. Gresack;Karyn M. Frick

  • Sex differences in hippocampal function

    Wendy A. Koss;Karyn M. Frick

Frequent Co-Authors

Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Joanne Berger-Sweeney Tufts University
Mark G. Baxter
Mark G. Baxter Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alicja L. Markowska
Alicja L. Markowska National Institute on Aging
David S. Olton
David S. Olton Johns Hopkins University
Elena Choleris
Elena Choleris University of Guelph
Liisa A.M. Galea
Liisa A.M. Galea University of British Columbia
Csaba Leranth
Csaba Leranth Yale University
Glenn E. Schafe
Glenn E. Schafe City University of New York
Farida Sohrabji
Farida Sohrabji Texas A&M University
Robert S. Astur
Robert S. Astur University of Connecticut

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