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Overview

Sam A. Golden is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with specific expertise spanning several subfields, including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Sam A. Golden has contributed to numerous research publications, frequently publishing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology, and Scientific Reports.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Molecular adaptations of the blood-brain barrier promote stress resilience vs. depression," published in 2020 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) - an open source toolkit for computer classification of complex social behaviors in experimental animals," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Orexin signaling in GABAergic lateral habenula neurons modulates aggressive behavior in male mice," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience," 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Toward the explainability, transparency, and universality of machine learning for behavioral classification in neuroscience," 2022, Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Throughout their career, Sam A. Golden has collaborated extensively with colleagues, including:

  • Alexandria D. Murry
  • Nastacia L. Goodwin
  • Eric R Szelenyi
  • Jovana Navarrete
  • Simon Nilsson

Best Publications

  • A standardized protocol for repeated social defeat stress in mice

    Sam A Golden;Herbert E Covington;Olivier Berton;Scott J Russo

  • Social stress induces neurovascular pathology promoting depression.

    Caroline Menard;Caroline Menard;Madeline L. Pfau;Georgia E. Hodes;Veronika Kana

  • Individual differences in the peripheral immune system promote resilience versus susceptibility to social stress.

    Georgia E. Hodes;Madeline L. Pfau;Marylene Leboeuf;Sam A. Golden

  • Sex Differences in Nucleus Accumbens Transcriptome Profiles Associated with Susceptibility versus Resilience to Subchronic Variable Stress

    Georgia E. Hodes;Madeline L. Pfau;Immanuel Purushothaman;H. Francisca Ahn

  • Structural and synaptic plasticity in stress-related disorders.

    Daniel J. Christoffel;Sam A. Golden;Scott J. Russo

  • Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models.

    Marco Venniro;Michelle Zhang;Daniele Caprioli;Jennifer K. Hoots

  • Epigenetic regulation of RAC1 induces synaptic remodeling in stress disorders and depression

    Sam A Golden;Daniel J Christoffel;Mitra Heshmati;Georgia E Hodes

  • Molecular adaptations of the blood–brain barrier promote stress resilience vs. depression

    Katarzyna A. Dudek;Laurence Dion-Albert;Manon Lebel;Katherine LeClair

  • IκB Kinase Regulates Social Defeat Stress-Induced Synaptic and Behavioral Plasticity

    Daniel J. Christoffel;Sam A. Golden;Dani Dumitriu;Alfred J. Robison

  • HDAC2 regulates atypical antipsychotic responses through the modulation of mGlu2 promoter activity

    Mitsumasa Kurita;Terrell Holloway;Aintzane García-Bea;Aintzane García-Bea;Alexey Kozlenkov

  • Targeted disruption of cocaine-activated nucleus accumbens neurons prevents context-specific sensitization.

    Eisuke Koya;Sam A Golden;Brandon K Harvey;Danielle H Guez-Barber

  • Epigenetic modulation of inflammation and synaptic plasticity promotes resilience against stress in mice

    Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Georgia E. Hodes;Hongxing Zhang;Song Zhang

  • Basal forebrain projections to the lateral habenula modulate aggression reward

    Sam A. Golden;Mitra Heshmati;Meghan Flanigan;Daniel J. Christoffel

  • Stress and CRF gate neural activation of BDNF in the mesolimbic reward pathway

    Jessica J. Walsh;Allyson K. Friedman;Haosheng Sun;Elizabeth A. Heller

  • Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors.

    Elizabeth A. Heller;Hannah M. Cates;Catherine Jensen Pena;Haosheng Sun

  • Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) – an open source toolkit for computer classification of complex social behaviors in experimental animals

    Simon Ro Nilsson;Nastacia L. Goodwin;Jia Jie Choong;Sophia Hwang

  • Differential effects of the hypocretin 1 receptor antagonist SB 334867 on high‐fat food self‐administration and reinstatement of food seeking in rats

    S G Nair;S A Golden;Y Shaham

  • Long-lasting incubation of conditioned fear in rats

    Charles L. Pickens;Sam A. Golden;Tristan Adams-Deutsch;Sunila G. Nair

  • Orexin signaling in GABAergic lateral habenula neurons modulates aggressive behavior in male mice

    Meghan E. Flanigan;Hossein Aleyasin;Long Li;C. Joseph Burnett

  • Nucleus accumbens Drd1-expressing neurons control aggression self-administration and aggression seeking in mice

    Sam A. Golden;Michelle Jin;Conor Heins;Marco Venniro

  • Fluoxetine epigenetically alters the CaMKIIα promoter in nucleus accumbens to regulate ΔFosB binding and antidepressant effects.

    A. J. Robison;Vincent Vialou;Hao Sheng Sun;Benoit Labonte

  • Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors

    Haosheng Sun;Ningyi Shao;Jian Feng;Michelle Mazei-Robison

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott J. Russo
Scott J. Russo Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Georgia E. Hodes
Georgia E. Hodes Virginia Tech
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ming-Hu Han
Ming-Hu Han Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Naguib Mechawar
Naguib Mechawar McGill University
William G.M. Janssen
William G.M. Janssen Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alfred J. Robison
Alfred J. Robison Michigan State University
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison Michigan State University

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