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Overview

Liisa A.M. Galea is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism.

Their work addresses a variety of topics including Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Sex and Gender in Healthcare, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, as well as Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Galea include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Hormones and Behavior, Alzheimer's & Dementia, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, and Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Several papers authored or co-authored by Galea are documented with key details as follows:

  • An analysis of neuroscience and psychiatry papers published from 2009 and 2019 outlines opportunities for increasing discovery of sex differences, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Sex steroids and the female brain across the lifespan: insights into risk of depression and Alzheimer's disease, 2023, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine: results from a population-based survey in Canada, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • Sex Differences in Maturation and Attrition of Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus, 2020, eNeuro
  • The influence of sex, gender, age, and ethnicity on psychosocial factors and substance use throughout phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Galea include Stephanie E. Lieblich, Arianne Albert, Lori A. Brotto, Bonnie H. Lee, and Tallinn F. L. Splinter.

Best Publications

  • Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus of the Adult Tree Shrew Is Regulated by Psychosocial Stress and NMDA Receptor Activation

    Elizabeth Gould;Bruce S. McEwen;Patima Tanapat;Liisa A. M. Galea

  • Chronic stress impairs rat spatial memory on the Y maze, and this effect is blocked by tianeptine pretreatment.

    Cheryl D. Conrad;Liisa A. M. Galea;Yasukazu Kuroda;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Sex differences in route-learning

    Liisa A.M. Galea;Doreen Kimura

  • SEX DIFFERENCES IN DENDRITIC ATROPHY OF CA3 PYRAMIDAL NEURONS IN RESPONSE TO CHRONIC RESTRAINT STRESS

    L.A.M Galea;B.S McEwen;P Tanapat;T Deak

  • Postpartum depression: Etiology, treatment and consequences for maternal care

    Susanne Brummelte;Liisa A.M. Galea

  • Exposure to fox odor inhibits cell proliferation in the hippocampus of adult rats via an adrenal hormone-dependent mechanism.

    Patima Tanapat;Nicholas B. Hastings;Tracy A. Rydel;Liisa A.M. Galea

  • Sex differences in depression: Insights from clinical and preclinical studies.

    Rand S. Eid;Aarthi R. Gobinath;Liisa A.M. Galea

  • Stress inhibits the proliferation of granule cell precursors in the developing dentate gyrus.

    Patima Tanapat;Liisa A.m Galea;Elizabeth Gould

  • Depression during pregnancy and postpartum: contribution of stress and ovarian hormones.

    S. Brummelte;Liisa A.M. Galea

  • Sex differences in hippocampal cognition and neurogenesis.

    Shunya Yagi;Liisa A. M. Galea

  • Effects of steroid hormones on neurogenesis in the hippocampus of the adult female rodent during the estrous cycle, pregnancy, lactation and aging.

    Jodi L. Pawluski;Susanne Brummelte;Cindy K. Barha;Tamara M. Crozier

  • Estradiol alleviates depressive-like symptoms in a novel animal model of post-partum depression.

    Liisa A.M Galea;Jennifer K Wide;Alasdair M Barr

  • Chronic high corticosterone reduces neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult male and female rats

    Susanne Brummelte;Liisa A. M. Galea

  • Sex and seasonal changes in the rate of cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of adult wild meadow voles

    L.A.M Galea;B.S McEwen

  • Gonadal hormone modulation of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult male and female rodents.

    Liisa A.M. Galea

  • Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, but not estradiol, enhance survival of new hippocampal neurons in adult male rats

    Mark D. Spritzer;Liisa A.M. Galea

  • Gonadal hormone modulation of hippocampal neurogenesis in the adult

    Liisa A.M. Galea;Mark D. Spritzer;Jennifer M. Barker;Jodi L. Pawluski

  • Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and voluntary running activity: Circadian and dose‐dependent effects

    Melissa M. Holmes;Liisa A.M. Galea;Ralph E. Mistlberger;Gerd Kempermann;Gerd Kempermann

  • Gonadal Hormone Levels and Spatial Learning Performance in the Morris Water Maze in Male and Female Meadow Voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus

    Liisa A. M. Galea;M. Kavaliers;K.-P. Ossenkopp;E. Hampson

  • High post-partum levels of corticosterone given to dams influence postnatal hippocampal cell proliferation and behavior of offspring: A model of post-partum stress and possible depression.

    Susanne Brummelte;Jodi L. Pawluski;Liisa A.M. Galea

Frequent Co-Authors

Jodi L. Pawluski
Jodi L. Pawluski University of Rennes
Martin Kavaliers
Martin Kavaliers University of Western Ontario
Stan B. Floresco
Stan B. Floresco University of British Columbia
Joanne Weinberg
Joanne Weinberg University of British Columbia
Elizabeth Gould
Elizabeth Gould Princeton University
Alasdair M. Barr
Alasdair M. Barr University of British Columbia
Thierry Charlier
Thierry Charlier Université de Rennes
Elena Choleris
Elena Choleris University of Guelph
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
Elizabeth Hampson
Elizabeth Hampson University of Western Ontario

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