Debra A. Bangasser

This paper adapts social operant paradigms to measure maternal motivation in postpartum rats using modified chambers and protocols.

This study shows that early life adversity selectively reduces adult social reward motivation in rodents without affecting sucrose reward motivation.

This study identifies female-specific vascular transcriptional changes and structural remodeling in the adult mPFC following early resource scarcity using snRNAseq and 3D vascular reconstruction.

This study examines sex-dependent changes in energy homeostasis and amyloid levels in TgF344-AD rats, finding differences in weight gain, thermogenic function, and glucose regulation between males and females.

This study shows that early resource scarcity in rats increases astrocyte size in the orbitofrontal cortex and causes sex-specific transcriptome changes, affecting glutamatergic signaling.