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  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Yasmin L. Hurd is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their published work encompasses multiple main topics including Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Birth, Development, and Health, and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology.

Yasmin L. Hurd has contributed to numerous publications in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Neuropsychopharmacology, Nature Communications, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Frequent coauthors in their work include John H. Krystal, Joel Gelernter, Kristen Brennand, Anissa Abi-Dargham, and New York.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Cannabis and synaptic reprogramming of the developing brain, 2021, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Common schizophrenia risk variants are enriched in open chromatin regions of human glutamatergic neurons, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Deconstructing the neurobiology of cannabis use disorder, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Addressing racism and disparities in the biomedical sciences, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Maternal cannabis use is associated with suppression of immune gene networks in placenta and increased anxiety phenotypes in offspring, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Yasmin L. Hurd has also contributed to book publications, including a work titled Substance Use Disorders published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2020.

Recognition for their work includes membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), awarded in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Essential Role of the Histone Methyltransferase G9a in Cocaine-induced Plasticity

    Ian Maze;Herbert E. Iii. Covington;David M. Dietz;Quincey LaPlant;Quincey LaPlant

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

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

  • Endocannabinoid signalling in reward and addiction

    Loren H. Parsons;Yasmin L. Hurd

  • Brain Cell Type Specific Gene Expression and Co-expression Network Architectures

    Andrew T. McKenzie;Minghui Wang;Mads E. Hauberg;John F. Fullard

  • Differential distribution and regulation of estrogen receptor-α and -β mRNA within the female rat brain

    Marie Österlund;George G.J.M. Kuiper;Jan-Åke Gustafsson;Yasmin L Hurd

  • Neurokinin 1 receptor and relative abundance of the short and long isoforms in the human brain.

    Laura Caberlotto;Yasmin L. Hurd;Paul Murdock;Jean Philippe Wahlin

  • Molecular alterations in the neostriatum of human cocaine addicts

    Yasmin L. Hurd;Miles Herkenham

  • Alterations in neuropeptide Y levels and Y1 binding sites in the Flinders Sensitive Line rats, a genetic animal model of depression.

    Laura Caberlotto;Patricia Jimenez;David H. Overstreet;Yasmin L. Hurd

  • Endocannabinoid signaling controls pyramidal cell specification and long-range axon patterning.

    Jan Mulder;Tania Aguado;Erik Keimpema;Klaudia Barabás

  • Estrogen receptor β (ERβ) messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression within the human forebrain: Distinct distribution pattern to ERα mRNA

    Marie K. Österlund;Jan Åke Gustafsson;Eva Keller;Yasmin L. Hurd

  • Adolescent Cannabis Exposure Alters Opiate Intake and Opioid Limbic Neuronal Populations in Adult Rats

    Maria Ellgren;Sabrina M Spano;Yasmin L Hurd

  • Endocannabinoids regulate interneuron migration and morphogenesis by transactivating the TrkB receptor

    Paul Berghuis;Marton B. Dobszay;Xinyu Wang;Sabrina Spano

  • Critical Role of Histone Turnover in Neuronal Transcription and Plasticity.

    Ian Maze;Ian Maze;Wendy Wenderski;Kyung Min Noh;Rosemary C. Bagot

  • Estrogen receptors in the human forebrain and the relation to neuropsychiatric disorders.

    Marie K Österlund;Yasmin L Hurd

  • Estrogen Receptor Gene Expression in Relation to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

    Hanna Östlund;Eva Keller;Yasmin L. Hurd

  • D1 and D2 dopamine receptor mRNA expression in whole hemisphere sections of the human brain.

    Yasmin L. Hurd;Michio Suzuki;Göran C. Sedvall

  • Cocaine: an in vivo microdialysis evaluation of its acute action on dopamine transmission in rat striatum.

    Yasmin L. Hurd;Urban Ungerstedt

  • D3 dopamine receptor mRNA is widely expressed in the human brain.

    Michio Suzuki;Yasmin L Hurd;Pierre Sokoloff;Jean-Charles Schwartz

  • Cocaine reinforcement and extracellular dopamine overflow in rat nucleus accumbens: an in vivo microdialysis study

    Yasmin L. Hurd;Friedbert Weiss;George F. Koob;Nils-Erik And

  • Cannabidiol for the Reduction of Cue-Induced Craving and Anxiety in Drug-Abstinent Individuals With Heroin Use Disorder: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Yasmin L Hurd;Sharron Spriggs;Julia Alishayev;Gary Winkel

Frequent Co-Authors

Panos Roussos
Panos Roussos Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tibor Harkany
Tibor Harkany Medical University of Vienna
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Urban Ungerstedt
Urban Ungerstedt Karolinska Institute
Göran Sedvall
Göran Sedvall Karolinska Institute
Georgy Bakalkin
Georgy Bakalkin Uppsala University
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
David M. Dietz
David M. Dietz University at Buffalo, State University of New York
William Byne
William Byne Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kjell Fuxe
Kjell Fuxe Karolinska Institute

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