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Overview

Zoltán Sarnyai is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Physiology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Biological Psychiatry. Their research spans several main topics including Stress Responses and Cortisol, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, Emotion and Mood Recognition, Mental Health Research Topics, and Health, Environment, and Cognitive Aging.

Among recent notable publications are:

  • Adverse childhood experiences and allostatic load: A systematic review, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Generalizable machine learning for stress monitoring from wearable devices: A systematic literature review, 2023, International Journal of Medical Informatics
  • Schizophrenia: a disorder of broken brain bioenergetics, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Ketogenic therapy in neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders: From mice to men, 2020, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Effects of beta-hydroxybutyrate administration on MK-801-induced schizophrenia-like behaviour in mice, 2020, Psychopharmacology

The scientist has worked frequently with various collaborators, including Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Brett McDermott, Sabine Finlay, Gideon Vos, and Liza van Eijk. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of research outputs.

Publications by Zoltán Sarnyai have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Psychoneuroendocrinology, arXiv (Cornell University), International Journal of Medical Informatics, Molecular Psychiatry, and Psychiatry Research. Psychoneuroendocrinology represents the most frequent publication venue, with nine documented publications.

The breadth of Sarnyai's work illustrates a multidisciplinary approach within medical and psychological sciences, emphasizing neurobiological and metabolic mechanisms related to stress, psychiatric conditions, and cognitive processes.

Best Publications

  • The y-maze for assessment of spatial working and reference memory in mice

    Ann Katrin Kraeuter;Paul C. Guest;Zoltán Sarnyai

  • The Open Field Test for Measuring Locomotor Activity and Anxiety-Like Behavior

    Ann Katrin Kraeuter;Paul C. Guest;Zoltán Sarnyai

  • Severe depression is associated with increased microglial quinolinic acid in subregions of the anterior cingulate gyrus: Evidence for an immune-modulated glutamatergic neurotransmission?

    Johann Steiner;Johann Steiner;Martin Walter;Tomasz Gos;Tomasz Gos;Gilles J Guillemin

  • "More than skin deep": stress neurobiology and mental health consequences of racial discrimination.

    Maximus Berger;Zoltán Sarnyai

  • The Role of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in Drug Addiction

    Zoltán Sarnyai;Yavin Shaham;Stephen C. Heinrichs

  • Increased prevalence of diverse N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor antibodies in patients with an initial diagnosis of schizophrenia: specific relevance of IgG NR1a antibodies for distinction from N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor encephalitis.

    Johann Steiner;Martin Walter;Wenzel Glanz;Zoltán Sarnyai

  • Impaired hippocampal-dependent learning and functional abnormalities in the hippocampus in mice lacking serotonin(1A) receptors.

    Zoltán Sarnyai;Etienne L. Sibille;Constantine Pavlides;Robert J. Fenster

  • Brain corticotropin-releasing factor mediates 'anxiety-like' behavior induced by cocaine withdrawal in rats

    Zoltán Sarnyai;Éva Bíró;János Gardi;Miklós Vecsernyés

  • OXYTOCIN AND ADDICTION: A REVIEW

    Gábor L. Kovács;Zoltán Sarnyai;Gyula Szabó

  • The Elevated Plus Maze Test for Measuring Anxiety-Like Behavior in Rodents

    Ann Katrin Kraeuter;Paul C. Guest;Zoltán Sarnyai

  • Role of oxytocin in the neuroadaptation to drugs of abuse

    Zoltán Sarnyai;Gábor L. Kovács

  • Bridging the gap between the immune and glutamate hypotheses of schizophrenia and major depression: Potential role of glial NMDA receptor modulators and impaired blood–brain barrier integrity

    Johann Steiner;Bernhard Bogerts;Zolt Á N Sarnyai;Martin Walter

  • From molecule to market: steroid hormones and financial risk-taking.

    John M. Coates;Mark Gurnell;Zoltan Sarnyai

  • The cocaine-induced elevation of plasma corticosterone is mediated by endogenous corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in rats.

    Zoltán Sarnyai;Éva Bíró;Botond Penke;Gyula Telegdy

  • Adverse childhood experiences and allostatic load: A systematic review

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  • The role of oxytocin-dopamine interactions in cocaine-induced locomotor hyperactivity

    G.L. Kovàcs;Z. Sarnyai;E. Babarczi;G. Szabó

  • The DBA/2J strain and prepulse inhibition of startle: a model system to test antipsychotics?

    Berend Olivier;Christina Leahy;Tanner Mullen;Richard Paylor

  • Health risk behaviours and allostatic load: A systematic review.

    Beena Suvarna;Aditya Suvarna;Riana Phillips;Robert-Paul Juster

  • Omega-6 to omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid ratio and subsequent mood disorders in young people with at-risk mental states: a 7-year longitudinal study

    M.E. Berger;S. Smesny;S-W. Kim;C.G. Davey

  • The 5-HT(1A) receptor knockout mouse and anxiety.

    Berend Olivier;T. Pattij;S. J. Wood;R. Oosting

  • Oxytocin in learning and addiction: From early discoveries to the present

    Zoltán Sarnyai;Gábor L. Kovács

  • From Molecule to Market

    John Coates;Mark Gurnell;Zoltan Sarnyai

Frequent Co-Authors

Gábor L. Kovács
Gábor L. Kovács University of Pecs
Bernhard Bogerts
Bernhard Bogerts Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Robert-Paul Juster
Robert-Paul Juster University of Montreal
Gyula Telegdy
Gyula Telegdy University of Szeged
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
Hans-Gert Bernstein
Hans-Gert Bernstein Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Maarten van den Buuse
Maarten van den Buuse La Trobe University
Etienne Sibille
Etienne Sibille University of Toronto
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Sharath Sriram
Sharath Sriram RMIT University

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