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Overview

Mohamed Kabbaj is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several specialized subfields including Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Social Psychology.

Their research interests include various key topics such as Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Treatment of Major Depression, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior.

Kabbaj has contributed to multiple publications over recent years. Notable recent papers include:

  • Practical solutions for including sex as a biological variable (SABV) in preclinical neuropsychopharmacological research, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • Transcriptomic Regulations Underlying Pair-bond Formation and Maintenance in the Socially Monogamous Male and Female Prairie Vole, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • Sex-specific effects of social isolation stress and ketamine on hippocampal plasticity, 2021, Neuroscience Letters
  • Chemogenetic selective manipulation of nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons bidirectionally controls alcohol intake in male and female rats, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Rewarding and Therapeutic Effects of Ketamine as a Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder, 2020, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Florian Duclot
  • Kristin J. Schoepfer
  • Alfonso Brea Guerrero
  • Samantha K. Saland
  • Zuoxin Wang

Kabbaj has published repeatedly in certain venues, with multiple publications in Scientific Reports and Neuroscience. Other venues include the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Biological Psychiatry, and Neuroscience Letters.

Best Publications

  • Adoption reverses the long-term impairment in glucocorticoid feedback induced by prenatal stress

    S. Maccari;P. V. Piazza;Mohamed Kabbaj;A. Barbazanges

  • Prenatal stress increases the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis response in young and adult rats

    Chantal Henry;Mohamed Kabbaj;Hervé Simon;Michel Le Moal

  • Dnmt3a regulates emotional behavior and spine plasticity in the nucleus accumbens

    Quincey LaPlant;Quincey LaPlant;Vincent Vialou;Herbert E Covington;Dani Dumitriu

  • Sex differences in anxiety and depression: role of testosterone.

    Jenna McHenry;Nicole Carrier;Elaine Hull;Mohamed Kabbaj

  • Neurobiological Correlates of Individual Differences in Novelty-Seeking Behavior in the Rat: Differential Expression of Stress-Related Molecules

    M. Kabbaj;D. P. Devine;V. R. Savage;H. Akil

  • Genome-wide analysis of chromatin regulation by cocaine reveals a role for sirtuins.

    William Renthal;Arvind Kumar;Guanghua Xiao;Matthew Wilkinson

  • Delayed effects of chronic variable stress during peripubertal-juvenile period on hippocampal morphology and on cognitive and stress axis functions in rats

    Ceylan Isgor;Mohamed Kabbaj;Huda Akil;Stanley J. Watson

  • The Role of Early Growth Response 1 (EGR1) in Brain Plasticity and Neuropsychiatric Disorders.

    Florian Duclot;Mohamed Kabbaj

  • Sex differences in the antidepressant-like effects of ketamine.

    Nicole Carrier;Mohamed Kabbaj

  • Social defeat as an animal model for depression.

    Fiona Hollis;Mohamed Kabbaj

  • Stress risk factors and stress-related pathology: Neuroplasticity, epigenetics and endophenotypes

    Jason J. Radley;Mohamed Kabbaj;Lauren Jacobson;Willem Heydendael

  • Histone deacetylase inhibitors facilitate partner preference formation in female prairie voles

    Hui Wang;Florian Duclot;Yan Liu;Zuoxin Wang

  • Social defeat alters the acquisition of cocaine self-administration in rats: role of individual differences in cocaine-taking behavior.

    M. Kabbaj;C. S. Norton;S. Kollack-Walker;S. J. Watson

  • Sex Differences in Effects of Ketamine on Behavior, Spine Density, and Synaptic Proteins in Socially Isolated Rats.

    Ambalika Sarkar;Mohamed Kabbaj

  • Evaluation of Affymetrix Gene Chip sensitivity in rat hippocampal tissue using SAGE analysis

    Simon J. Evans;Nicole A. Datson;Mohamed Kabbaj;Robert C. Thompson

  • Estrogen receptor β in the paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus regulates the neuroendocrine response to stress and is regulated by corticosterone

    C Isgor;M Cecchi;M Kabbaj;H Akil

  • The effects of repeated social defeat on long-term depressive-like behavior and short-term histone modifications in the hippocampus in male Sprague–Dawley rats

    Fiona Hollis;Hui Wang;David Dietz;Akash Gunjan

  • Individual differences in novelty-seeking behavior in rats: a c-fos study.

    M Kabbaj;H Akil

  • Sex Differences in Social Interaction in Rats: Role of the Immediate-Early Gene zif268

    Ashley Stack;Nicole Carrier;David Dietz;Fiona Hollis

  • The Anxiolytic and Antidepressant-like Effects of Testosterone and Estrogen in Gonadectomized Male Rats

    Nicole Carrier;Samantha K. Saland;Florian Duclot;Huan He

  • Diurnal rhythm of agouti-related protein and its relation to corticosterone and food intake.

    Xin-Yun Lu;Kun Ruey Shieh;Mohamed Kabbaj;Gregory S. Barsh

  • REVIEW ARTICLE Evaluation of Affymetrix Gene Chip sensitivity in rat hippocampal tissue using SAGE analysis

    Simon J. Evans;Nicole A. Datson;Mohamed Kabbaj;Robert C. Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Huda Akil
Huda Akil University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David M. Dietz
David M. Dietz University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Zuoxin Wang
Zuoxin Wang Florida State University
Stanley J. Watson
Stanley J. Watson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
M. Le Moal
M. Le Moal University of Bordeaux
Frank D. Fincham
Frank D. Fincham Florida State University
Michael W. Salter
Michael W. Salter University of Toronto
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stefania Maccari
Stefania Maccari Sapienza University of Rome
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University

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