Johnny D. Figueroa

This study examines how adolescent high-fat diet and psychosocial stress affect neuroendocrine stress responses and binge eating in adult male rats, finding lasting hormonal and behavioral impacts.

This study identifies adolescent twitching as a digital biomarker predictive of adult binge-like eating in female rats subjected to early social isolation stress.

This study investigates how an obesogenic diet and psychosocial stress during adolescence affect brain health, revealing synergistic impacts on neuroinflammation, gut microbiota, and gene methylation.

This study shows that morphine self-administration in rodents alters gut microbiota and brain microstructure, with neuroinflammation linking gut and brain changes.

This study shows that TACE/ADAM17 in the prefrontal cortex is involved in stress-induced eating changes and neuroinflammation in rats.

This study shows that an obesogenic diet affects hippocampal structure and function in rats, with NRG1 administration altering these effects through the TACE/ADAM17-NRG1-ErbB4 signaling pathway.

This study examines the effects of diet-induced obesity and psychogenic stress on neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in rats, finding synergistic increases in biomarkers and associations with anxiety-like behaviors.

This study shows that a short-term obesogenic diet during adolescence impairs fear extinction and increases anxiety-related molecular markers, while adult rats show heightened stress reactivity.

This study shows that an obesogenic diet during adolescence impairs fear extinction learning and memory retention in rats, linked to reduced dopamine receptor D1 mRNA levels in the prefrontal cortex.