Santiago Cuesta

This study shows that amphetamine exposure in adolescence causes sex-specific changes in dopamine axon growth via Netrin-1/DCC signaling, with male mice showing increased vulnerability.

This study shows that miR-218 expression in adolescence predicts and mediates vulnerability to stress in adulthood by regulating Dcc expression in the medial prefrontal cortex.

This study shows that miR-218 in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) influences resilience or susceptibility to depression-like behaviors in mice and that its expression in blood correlates with mPFC levels.