Selected Publications
PREPRINT: Prefrontal cortex melanocortin 4 receptors (MC4R) mediate food intake behavior in mice
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.01.494383v1
Ross RA, Kim A, Das, P, Li Y, Choi YK, Thompson AT, Douglas E, Subramanian S, Ramos K, Callahan K, Bolshakov VY, Ressler KJ.
bioRxiv 2022.06.01.494383; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.01.494383
The role of mediobasal hypothalamic PACAP in the control of body weight and metabolism
Kramer NB’, Ross RA’, Johnson DQ, Fenselau H, Haggerty DL, Atwood B, Lowell BB, Flak JN. Endocrinology. 2021 Jan 18. (The ‘ indicates co-first author) Doi:. PDF.
PACAP neurons in the ventral premammillary nucleus regulate reproductive function in the female mouse
Ross RA, Leon S, Madara JC, Schafer D, Fergani C, Maguire CA, Verstegen AM, Brengle E, Kong D, Herbison AE, Kaiser UB, Lowell BB, Navarro VM. eLife. 2018 Jun 15;7;. pii: e35960. doi: 10.7554/eLife.35960. PMID: 29905528. PDF
Circulating PACAP peptide and PAC1R genotype as possible transdiagnostic biomarkers for anxiety disorders in women: a preliminary study
Ross RA, Hoeppner SS, Hellberg SN, O’Day EB, Rosencrans PL, Ressler KJ, May V, Simon NM. Neuropsychopharmacology. Jan 7, 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41386-020-0604-4. PMID:31910434. PDF
A brainstem peptide system activated at birth protects postnatal breathing
Yingtang Shi, Daniel S Stornetta, Robert J Reklow, Alisha Sahu, Yvonne Wabara, Ashley Nguyen, Keyong Li, Yong Zhang, Edward Perez-Reyes, Rachel A Ross, Bradford B Lowell, Ruth L Stornetta, Gregory D Funk, Patrice G Guyenet, Douglas A Bayliss Nature 589 (7842), 426-430. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2991-4. PMID:33268898. PDF
A Virtual Summer Research and Mentorship Program for Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM) Medical Students in Psychiatry
Masaki, C.O., Ogbu-Nwobodo, L., Santos, L.H. et al. Acad Psychiatry. 2022. doi:10.1007/s40596-022-01631-2. PubMed PMID: 35414163. PDF
The Emotional Cost of Contraception
Ross, RA and Kaiser, UB. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. Dec 8, 2016;13(1):7–9. doi: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.194. PubMed PMID: 27929034. PDF
Deconstructing the gestalt: Mechanisms of fear, threat, and trauma memory encoding
Maddox SA, Hartmann J, Ross RA, Ressler KJ. Neuron. April 3, 2019. 102;60–74. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.03.017. PMID 30946827. PDF
A visual circuit uses complementary mechanisms to support transient and sustained pupil constriction
Keenan WT*, Rupp AC*, Ross RA, Somasundaram P, Hiriyanna S, Wu Z, Badea TC, Robinson PR, Lowell BB, and Hattar S. eLife 2016; doi: 10.7554/eLife.15392. PMID: 27669145. PDF
Depression in Turner Syndrome: A systematic review. Archives of Sexual Behavior
Morris LA, Kremens J, Tishelman A, Ross RA. Sept 5, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-01549-1. PMID: 31598804. PDF
Non-Crh glutamatergic neurons in Barrington’s nucleus control micturition via glutamatergic afferents from the midbrain and hypothalamus
Verstegen AMJ, Klymko N, Zhu L, Mathai JC, Kobayashi R, Venner A, Ross RA, VanderHorst VG, Arrigoni E, Geerling JC, Zeidel ML. Current Biology. Aug 3, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.009. PMID: 31422881. PDF
Hypothalamic PKC regulates glucose production
Ross R, Wang PY, Chari M, Lam CK, Caspi L, Ono H, Muse ED, Li X, Gutierrez-Juarez R, Light PE, Schwartz GJ, Rossetti L, Lam TK. Diabetes. 2008 Aug; 57(8): 2061–2065. doi: 10.2337/db08-0206. PMID: 18511848. PDF
Differential effects of hypothalamic long chain fatty acid infusions on suppression of hepatic glucose production
Ross RA, Rossetti L, Lam TKT, Schwartz GJ. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2010 Oct; 299(4): E633–639. doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.00190.2010. PMID: 20647558. PDF
Inflammatory cytokines in major depressive disorder: A case–control study
Cassano P, Bui E, Rogers AH, Walton ZE, Ross R, Zeng M, Nadal-Vicens M, Mischoulon D, Baker AW, Keshaviah A, Worthington J, Hoge EA, Alpert J, Fava M, Wong KK, Simon NM. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2017 Jan;51(1):23-31. doi: 10.1177/0004867416652736. Epub 2016 Sep 29. PMID: 27313138. PDF
Circulating levels of oxytocin may be elevated in complicated grief: a pilot study
Eric Bui, Samantha N Hellberg, Susanne S Hoeppner, Peter Rosencrans , Allison Young , Rachel A Ross, Elizabeth Hoge, Naomi M Simon. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2019 Aug 6;10(1):1646603. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2019.1646603. PDF
Interacting Neural Processes of Feeding, Hyperactivity, Stress, Reward, and the Utility of the Activity-Based Anorexia Model of Anorexia Nervosa
Rachel A Ross, Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, Anne M J Verstegen. Harv Rev Psychiatry
. Nov/Dec 2016;24(6):416-436. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000111. PDF