Recent Publications

NOTE: For the most up-to-date list of our recent publications, please refer to the full list on PubMed.

McCreary JK, Erickson ZT, & Metz GA (2016). Environmental enrichment mitigates the impact of ancestral stress on motor skill and corticospinal tract plasticity. Neuroscience Letters, 632, 181—186.
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McCreary JK, Truica LS, Friesen B, Yao Y, Olson DM, Kovalchuk I, Cross AR, & Metz GA (2016). Brain activation and neuronal loss reflect elevated emotional state after multigenerational prenatal stress in female rats. Neuroscience, 330, 79-89.

Ambeskovic M, Soltanpour N, Falkenberg EA, Zucchi FCR, Kolb B, & Metz GA (2016). Ancestral exposure to stress generates new behavioural traits and a functional hemispheric dominance shift. Cerebral Cortex, TBA (TBA), TBA.
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McCreary JK & Metz GA (2016). Environmental enrichment as an intervention for adverse health outcomes of prenatal stress. Environmental Epigenetics, TBA: TBA.
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Mychasiuk R & Metz GA (2016). Epigenetics of adolescent brain maturation: what have we learned from animal models?. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, E-pub (TBA)
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Kiss, D, Ambeskovic M, Montina T, & Metz GA (2016). Stress transgenerationally programs metabolic pathways linked to altered mental health. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 1-11.
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Olson DM, Severson EM, Verstraeten BSE, Ng JWY, Matkin AE, McCreary JK, & Metz GA (2015). Allostatic load and preterm birth. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 16(12), 29856-29874.
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Babenko A, Kovalchuk I, & Metz GA (2015). Stress-induced perinatal and transgenerational epigenetic programming of brain development and mental health. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (IF=11.1).48, 70-91.
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Faraji J, Soltanpour N, Moeeini R, Hosseini SA, Pakdel S, Mollaei E, Arjang K, Soltanpour N, & Metz GA (2015). Regional vulnerability of the hippocampus to repeated vertical activity deprivation. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, 301, 178-189.
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Metz GA, Ng J, Kovalchuk I, & Olson DM (2015). Ancestral experience as a game changer in stress vulnerability and disease outcomes. BioEssays (incl. Cover page feature), 37(6), 602-611.
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Skelin I, Needham M, Molina LM, Metz GA, & Gruber AJ (2015). Multigenerational prenatal stress increases the coherence of brain signaling among cortico-striatal-limbic circuits in adult rats. Neuroscience, 14(289C), 270-78.
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Most Cited Publications

Thallmair M, Metz GA, Z’Graggen W, Raineteau O, Kartje G, & Schwab M (1998). Neurite growth inhibitors restrict plasticity and functional recovery following corticospinal tract lesions. Nature Neuroscience1(4), 329.
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Metz GA, & Whishaw IQ (2002). Cortical and subcortical lesions impair skilled walking in the ladder rung walking test: a new task to evaluate fore- and hindlimb stepping, placing, and co-ordination. J Neuroscience Methods115(2), 169-79.
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Merkler D, Metz GA, Rainereau O, Dietz V, Schwab M, & Fouad K (2001). Locomotor recovery in spinal cord-injured rats treated with an antibody neutralizing the myelin-associated neurite growth inhibitor Nogo-A. Journal of Neuroscience21(10), 3665-3673.
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Z’Graggen WJ, Metz GA, Kartje GL, Thallmair M, & Schwab M (1998). Functional recovery and enhanced corticofugal plasticity after unilateral pyramidal tract lesion and blockade of myelin-associated neurite growth inhibitors in adult rats. Journal of Neuroscience18(12), 4744-4757.
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