This month’s featured researcher is Katherine Dixon-Gordon. Dr. Dixon-Gordon is an associate professor in the Clincal Program in the Department Psychological & Brain Sciences. She directs the Clinical Affective Science lab, whose mission is to harness innovative research methods to advance our understanding of emotional suffering and intentional self-injury and improve evidence-based, compassionate, and accessible treatments. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Simon Fraser University and she completed her residency and did clinical work at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Dixon-Gordon is a board certified Dielectic Behavioral Therapy Trainer at Behavioral Tech LLC. She directs the DBT Program in the Psychological Services Center at UMass. She co-authored a paper in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, titled, “The Effectiveness of 6 versus 12 Months of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial“, which recently appeared in PubMed.

Here’s what else is new for ‘ ”University of Massachusetts” AND Amherst AND neuroscience’ in PubMed. These publications appeared online this summer. They are just a fraction of the neuroscience research that occurs on campus. You can click on the PubMed ID to find the publication.

1: Kapur G, Stenson AF, Chiodo LM, Delaney-Black V, Hannigan JH, Janisse J, Ratner HH. Childhood Violence Exposure Predicts High Blood Pressure in Black American Young Adults. J Pediatr. 2022 Jun 2:S0022-3476(22)00491-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.05.039. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35660017.

2: McEwen BS, Karatsoreos IN. Sleep Deprivation and Circadian Disruption Stress, Allostasis, and Allostatic Load. Sleep Med Clin. 2022 Jun;17(2):253-262. doi: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2022.03.005. Epub 2022 Apr 23. PMID: 35659078.

3: Marshall J, Gollwitzer A, Mermin-Bunnell K, Mandalaywala T. The role of status in the early emergence of pro-White bias in rural Uganda. Dev Sci. 2022 Jul;25(4):e13240. doi: 10.1111/desc.13240. Epub 2022 Feb 16. PMID: 35128782.

4: McMain SF, Chapman AL, Kuo JR, Dixon-Gordon KL, Guimond TH, Labrish C, Isaranuwatchai W, Streiner DL. The Effectiveness of 6 versus 12 Months of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial. Psychother Psychosom. 2022 Jun 23:1-16. doi: 10.1159/000525102. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35738244.

5: Kinlein SA, Wallace NK, Savenkova MI, Karatsoreos IN. Chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis disruption alters glutamate homeostasis and neural responses to stress in male C57Bl6/N mice. Neurobiol Stress. 2022 Jun 5;19:100466. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100466. PMID: 35720261; PMCID: PMC9198473.

6: Lokhandwala S, Spencer RMC. Relations between sleep patterns early in life and brain development: A review. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2022 Jun 26;56:101130. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101130. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35779333; PMCID: PMC9254005.

7: Mohr MA, Keshishian T, Falcy BA, Laham BJ, Wong AM, Micevych PE. Puberty enables oestradiol-induced progesterone synthesis in female mouse hypothalamic astrocytes. J Neuroendocrinol. 2022 Jun;34(6):e13082. doi: 10.1111/jne.13082. Epub 2022 Jan 9. PMID: 35000221; PMCID: PMC9207152.

8: Sebastian R, Song Y, Pak C. Probing the molecular and cellular pathological mechanisms of schizophrenia using human induced pluripotent stem cell models. Schizophr Res. 2022 Jul 11:S0920-9964(22)00263-8. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.06.028. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35835709.

9: Scarpa GB, Starrett JR, Li GL, Brooks C, Morohashi Y, Yazaki-Sugiyama Y, Remage-Healey L. Estrogens rapidly shape synaptic and intrinsic properties to regulate the temporal precision of songbird auditory neurons. Cereb Cortex. 2022 Jul 19:bhac280. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac280. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35849820.

10: Lokhandwala S, Spencer RMC. Relations between sleep patterns early in life and brain development: A review. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2022 Aug;56:101130. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101130. Epub 2022 Jun 26. PMID: 35779333; PMCID: PMC9254005.

11: Sisson C, Bahiru MS, Manoogian ENC, Bittman EL. The duper mutation reveals previously unsuspected functions of Cryptochrome 1 in circadian entrainment and heart disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Aug 9;119(32):e2121883119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121883119. Epub 2022 Aug 5. PMID: 35930669.

12: Balogh M, Zhang J, Gaffney CM, Kalakuntla N, Nguyen NT, Trinh RT, Aguilar C, Pham HV, Milutinovic B, Nichols JM, Mahalingam R, Shepherd AJ. Sensory neuron dysfunction in orthotopic mouse models of colon cancer. J Neuroinflammation. 2022 Aug 12;19(1):204. doi: 10.1186/s12974-022-02566-z. PMID: 35962398; PMCID: PMC9375288.

13: He J, Fu T, Zhang L, Wanrong Gao L, Rensel M, Remage-Healey L, White SA, Gedman G, Whitelegge J, Xiao X, Schlinger BA. Improved zebra finch brain transcriptome identifies novel proteins with sex differences. Gene. 2022 Aug 9;843:146803. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146803. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35961439.

14: Golub EM, Conner B, Edwards M, Gillis L, Lacreuse A. Potential trade-off between olfactory and visual discrimination learning in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): Implications for the assessment of age-related cognitive decline. Am J Primatol. 2022 Aug 8:e23427. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23427. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35942572.

15: Sisson C, Bahiru MS, Manoogian ENC, Bittman EL. The duper mutation reveals previously unsuspected functions of Cryptochrome 1 in circadian entrainment and heart disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Aug 9;119(32):e2121883119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121883119. Epub 2022 Aug 5. PMID: 35930669; PMCID: PMC9371649.

16: Holec SAM, Lee J, Oehler A, Ooi FK, Mordes DA, Olson SH, Prusiner SB, Woerman AL. Multiple system atrophy prions transmit neurological disease to mice expressing wild-type human ?-synuclein. Acta Neuropathol. 2022 Aug 26. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02476-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36018376.