Early life adversity as a risk factor for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

Z Huang, JD Jordan, Q Zhang - Translational neurodegeneration, 2023 - Springer
Neurological conditions, including cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD),
impose a huge burden on society, affecting millions of people globally. In addition to genetic …

Noise exposure accelerates the risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: Adulthood, gestational, and prenatal mechanistic evidence from animal studies

Z Jafari, BE Kolb, MH Mohajerani - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This review examines the adverse impacts of different noise exposure paradigms on the
neuroendocrine system, hippocampal and neocortical structures, cognitive performances …

Maternal anxiety, depression and stress affects offspring gut microbiome diversity and bifidobacterial abundances

JD Galley, L Mashburn-Warren, LC Blalock… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Uncovering mechanisms underlying fetal programming during pregnancy is of critical
importance. Atypical neurodevelopment during the pre-and immediate postnatal period has …

Chronic traffic noise stress accelerates brain impairment and cognitive decline in mice

Z Jafari, BE Kolb, MH Mohajerani - Experimental neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
Although traffic noise exposure is a well-known environmental pollutant whose negative
health effect has been discussed in different aspects of the human life, only a few animal …

Mild prenatal stress causes emotional and brain structural modifications in rats of both sexes

C Soares-Cunha, B Coimbra, S Borges… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Stress or high levels of glucocorticoids (GCs) during developmental periods is known to
induce persistent effects in the neuroendocrine circuits that control stress response, which …

Low-cost solution for rodent home-cage behaviour monitoring

S Singh, E Bermudez-Contreras, M Nazari… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In the current research on measuring complex behaviours/phenoty** in rodents, most of
the experimental design requires the experimenter to remove the animal from its home-cage …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and noise during pregnancy and childhood, and functional brain connectivity in preadolescents

L Pérez-Crespo, MSW Kusters, M López-Vicente… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The amount of people affected by traffic-related air pollution and noise is
continuously increasing, but limited research has been conducted on the association …

Chronic noise exposure and risk of dementia: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis

L Meng, Y Zhang, S Zhang, F Jiang, L Sha… - Frontiers in public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective Evidence is scarce about the effect of noise exposure on the risk of dementia. We
conducted a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis, aiming to explore the …

Differential expression of placental 11β-HSD2 induced by high maternal glucocorticoid exposure mediates sex differences in placental and fetal development

P Yu, J Zhou, C Ge, M Fang, Y Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
A variety of adverse environmental factors during pregnancy cause maternal chronic stress.
Caffeine is a common stressor, and its consumption during pregnancy is widespread. Our …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between the hippocampus and the auditory pathway

L Zhang, J Wang, H Sun, G Feng, Z Gao - Neurobiology of Learning and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence has shown that noise overexposure could lead to impaired
hippocampal function. Hippocampal alteration is also observed in several auditory deficits …