Sarah J. Spencer

Best Publications

• Obesity and neuroinflammation: a pathway to cognitive impairment.

  Alyson A. Miller;Sarah J. Spencer

  842
  Citations

• Eating behavior and stress: a pathway to obesity

  Luba Sominsky;Sarah J. Spencer

  448
  Citations

• Postnatal Inflammation Increases Seizure Susceptibility in Adult Rats

  Michael A. Galic;Kiarash Riazi;James G. Heida;Abdeslam Mouihate

  343
  Citations

• Ghrelin regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and restricts anxiety after acute stress

  Sarah J Spencer;Lu Xu;Melanie A Clarke;Moyra B Lemus

  279
  Citations

• Food for thought: how nutrition impacts cognition and emotion

  Sarah J. Spencer;Aniko Korosi;Sophie Layé;Barbara Shukitt-Hale

  254
  Citations

• High-fat diet and aging interact to produce neuroinflammation and impair hippocampal- and amygdalar-dependent memory.

  Sarah J. Spencer;Heather D'Angelo;Alita Soch;Linda R. Watkins

  214
  Citations

• Medial prefrontal cortex control of the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus response to psychological stress: possible role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

  Sarah J. Spencer;Kathryn M. Buller;Trevor A. Day

  198
  Citations

• The glucocorticoid contribution to obesity.

  Sarah J Spencer;Alan J Tilbrook

  186
  Citations

• Microglia: Key players in neurodevelopment and neuronal plasticity.

  Luba Sominsky;Simone De Luca;Sarah J. Spencer

  143
  Citations

• Ghrelin’s Role in the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Stress Response: Implications for Mood Disorders

  Sarah Jane Spencer;Tim L Emmerzaal;Tamas Kozicz;Zane B Andrews

  140
  Citations

• Early-Life Immune Challenge: Defining a Critical Window for Effects on Adult Responses to Immune Challenge

  Sarah J Spencer;Sheilagh Martin;Abdeslam Mouihate;Quentin J Pittman

  130
  Citations

• Early life immune challenge--effects on behavioural indices of adult rat fear and anxiety.

  Sarah J. Spencer;James G. Heida;Quentin J. Pittman

  123
  Citations

• Neonatal programming of innate immune function

  Sarah J Spencer;Michael A Galic;Quentin J. Pittman

  117
  Citations

• Preweaning Over- and Underfeeding Alters Onset of Puberty in the Rat Without Affecting Kisspeptin

  Jeremy Troy Smith;Sarah J Spencer

  108
  Citations

• Early Life Activation of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Reprograms Neural Anti-Inflammatory Pathways

  Abdeslam Mouihate;Michael A. Galic;Shaun L. Ellis;Sarah J. Spencer

  105
  Citations

• The impact of obesity and hypercaloric diet consumption on anxiety and emotional behavior across the lifespan

  Kathryn D. Baker;Amy Loughman;Sarah J. Spencer;Amy C. Reichelt

  97
  Citations

• Neonatal overfeeding alters adult anxiety and stress responsiveness

  Sarah J Spencer;Alan John Tilbrook

  94
  Citations

• Thalamic paraventricular nucleus lesions facilitate central amygdala neuronal responses to acute psychological stress.

  Sarah J. Spencer;James C. Fox;Trevor A. Day

  93
  Citations

• Neonatal immune challenge alters nociception in the adult rat.

  Lysa Boissé;Sarah J. Spencer;Abdeslam Mouihate;Nathalie Vergnolle

  93
  Citations

• Perinatal programming of neuroendocrine mechanisms connecting feeding behavior and stress

  Sarah J Spencer

  87
  Citations

• Postnatal inflammation increases seizure susceptibility in adult rats

  M Galic;K Riazi;J Heida;A Mouihate

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