Alessia Manganaro

This study investigates sex-specific stress responses to acute and chronic social defeat stress, finding differences in behavioral outcomes between males and females.

This study examines the temporal dynamics of parvalbumin interneurons and perineuronal nets in the medial prefrontal cortex during learned helplessness, showing predictive recruitment, dynamic PV expression, and stress-induced coupling between PV and PNN in the infralimbic subregion.

The paper develops a novel tracing technique to investigate intra-amygdala connectivity patterns as predictors of individual variability in stress responses, identifying potential biological markers for trait vulnerability.

This study examines the long-term behavioral effects of a severe maternal separation paradigm in rats, finding minimal adverse outcomes across the lifespan.

This study identifies preexisting structural and functional differences in the prelimbic-amygdala circuit that mediate vulnerability to acute social defeat stress in male mice.