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Regina M. Sullivan

Regina M. Sullivan

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Neuroscience

D-Index
73
Citations
15752
World Ranking
2242
National Ranking
1065

Overview

Regina M. Sullivan is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has a research focus spanning multiple fields including psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Their work intersects with several subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, endocrine and autonomic systems, as well as public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The scientist's research covers a broad array of topics including neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, stress responses and cortisol, prenatal substance exposure effects, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and olfactory and sensory function studies.

Key recent publications include:

  • "Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour," 2021, Nature
  • "Outcomes at least 90 days since onset of myocarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in adolescents and young adults in the USA: a follow-up surveillance study," 2022, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • "Antagonistic circuits mediating infanticide and maternal care in female mice," 2023, Nature
  • "Bidirectional control of infant rat social behavior via dopaminergic innervation of the basolateral amygdala," 2021, Neuron
  • "Neurobiology of Infant Fear and Anxiety: Impacts of Delayed Amygdala Development and Attachment Figure Quality," 2020, Biological Psychiatry

The scientist frequently publishes in a range of venues, with multiple contributions to Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including Maya Opendak, Donald A. Wilson, Charlis Raineki, Roseanna M. Zanca, and Rosemarie E. Perry.

Best Publications

  • Psychobiological Mechanisms Underlying the Social Buffering of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis: A Review of Animal Models and Human Studies Across Development

    Camelia E. Hostinar;Regina M. Sullivan;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Cortical processing of odor objects.

    Donald A. Wilson;Regina M. Sullivan;Regina M. Sullivan;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Fear Erasure in Mice Requires Synergy Between Antidepressant Drugs and Extinction Training

    Nina N. Karpova;Anouchka Pickenhagen;Jesse Lindholm;Ettore Tiraboschi

  • Maternal presence serves as a switch between learning fear and attraction in infancy

    Stephanie Moriceau;Regina M Sullivan

  • Chronic early life stress induced by limited bedding and nesting (LBN) material in rodents: critical considerations of methodology, outcomes and translational potential

    Claire-Dominique Walker;Kevin G. Bath;Marian Joels;Aniko Korosi

  • Good memories of bad events in infancy.

    Regina M. Sullivan;Margo Landers;Brian Yeaman;Donald A. Wilson

  • Norepinephrine and Learning-Induced Plasticity in Infant Rat Olfactory System

    Regina M. Sullivan;Donald A. Wilson;Michael Leon

  • Neurobiology of associative learning in the neonate: early olfactory learning.

    Donald A. Wilson;Regina M. Sullivan

  • The development and neurobiology of infant attachment and fear.

    Margo S. Landers;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Dual circuitry for odor-shock conditioning during infancy: corticosterone switches between fear and attraction via amygdala.

    Stephanie Moriceau;Donald A. Wilson;Seymour Levine;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Effects of Early-Life Abuse Differ across Development: Infant Social Behavior Deficits Are Followed by Adolescent Depressive-Like Behaviors Mediated by the Amygdala

    Charlis Raineki;Millie Rincón Cortés;Laure Belnoue;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour

    Ioana Carcea;Naomi López Caraballo;Bianca J. Marlin;Rumi Ooyama

  • Neurobiology of Infant Attachment

    Stephanie Moriceau;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Association of an Odor with Activation of Olfactory Bulb Noradrenergic β-Receptors or Locus Coeruleus Stimulation is Sufficient to Produce Learned Approach Responses to that Odor in Neonatal Rats

    R. M. Sullivan;G. Stackenwalt;F. Nasr;C. Lemon

  • Plasticity in the Olfactory System: Lessons for the Neurobiology of Memory:

    D. A. Wilson;A. R. Best;R. M. Sullivan

  • Early-Life Stress Disrupts Attachment Learning: The Role of Amygdala Corticosterone, Locus Ceruleus Corticotropin Releasing Hormone, and Olfactory Bulb Norepinephrine

    Stephanie Moriceau;Kiseko Shionoya;Katherine Jakubs;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Memory of early maltreatment: neonatal behavioral and neural correlates of maternal maltreatment within the context of classical conditioning.

    Tania L. Roth;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Developing a neurobehavioral animal model of infant attachment to an abusive caregiver

    Charlis Raineki;Stephanie Moriceau;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Olfactory Classical Conditioning in Neonates

    Regina M. Sullivan;Suzanne Taborsky-Barba;Raffael Mendoza;Alison Itano

  • Unique neural circuitry for neonatal olfactory learning.

    Stephanie Moriceau;Regina M. Sullivan

  • Infant Bonding and Attachment to the Caregiver: Insights from Basic and Clinical Science

    Regina Sullivan;Rosemarie Perry;Aliza Sloan;Karine Kleinhaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald A. Wilson
Donald A. Wilson Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Michael Leon
Michael Leon University of California, Irvine
Nim Tottenham
Nim Tottenham Columbia University
Valérie Doyère
Valérie Doyère Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Johan N. Lundström
Johan N. Lundström Karolinska Institute
Clancy Blair
Clancy Blair New York University
Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux New York University
Chiye Aoki
Chiye Aoki New York University
Mary Dozier
Mary Dozier University of Delaware
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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