Debra A Bangasser

Temple University Logo

Debra A Bangasser

  • College of Liberal Arts

    • Psychology

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

NSCI 3006

Stress and the Brain

Undergraduate

NSCI 4191

Collaborative Research I

Undergraduate

NSCI 4291

Collaborative Research II

Undergraduate

PSY 3006

Stress and the Brain

Undergraduate

PSY 3791

Collaborative Research I

Undergraduate

PSY 3891

Collaborative Research II

Undergraduate

NSCI 9381

Readings in Neuroscience

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Bangasser, D. & Cuarenta, A. (2021). Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 22(11), 674-684. doi: 10.1038/s41583-021-00513-0.

  • Hanson, J., Williams, A., Bangasser, D., & Peña, C. (2021). Impact of Early Life Stress on Reward Circuit Function and Regulation. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.744690.

  • Bhargava, A., Arnold, A., Bangasser, D., Denton, K., Gupta, A., Krause, L.H., Mayer, E., McCarthy, M., Miller, W., Raznahan, A., & Verma, R. (2021). Considering sex as a biological variable in basic and clinical studies: An endocrine society scientific statement. Endocrine Reviews, 42(3), 219-258. doi: 10.1210/endrev/bnaa034.

  • Sanchez, E., Bavley, C., Deutschmann, A., Carpenter, R., Peterson, D., Karbalaei, R., Flowers, J., Rogers, C., Langrehr, M., Ardekani, C., Famularo, S., Bongiovanni, A., Knouse, M., Floresco, S., Briand, L., Wimmer, M., & Bangasser, D. (2021). Early life adversity promotes resilience to opioid addiction-related phenotypes in male rats and sex-specific transcriptional changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(8). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020173118.

  • Eck, S. & Bangasser, D. (2020). The effects of early life stress on motivated behaviors: A role for gonadal hormones. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 119, 86-100. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.09.014.

  • Eck, S., Xu, S., Telenson, A., Duggan, M., Cole, R., Wicks, B., Bergmann, J., Lefebo, H., Shore, M., Shepard, K., Akins, M., Parikh, V., Heller, E., & Bangasser, D. (2020). Stress Regulation of Sustained Attention and the Cholinergic Attention System. Biological Psychiatry, 88(7), 566-575. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.04.013.

  • Bangasser, D. & Sanchez, E. (2020). Social status modulating chronic stress: Social rank differentially influences how male and female mice respond to chronic stress. ELife, 9, 1-3. doi: 10.7554/eLife.63996.

  • Eck, S., Ardekani, C., Salvatore, M., Luz, S., Kim, E., Rogers, C., Hall, A., Lee, D., Famularo, S., Bhatnagar, S., & Bangasser, D. (2020). The effects of early life adversity on growth, maturation, and steroid hormones in male and female rats. European Journal of Neuroscience, 52(1), 2664-2680. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14609.

  • Holliday, E., Logue, S., Oliver, C., Bangasser, D., & Gould, T. (2020). Stress and nicotine during adolescence disrupts adult hippocampal-dependent learning and alters stress reactivity. Addiction Biology, 25(3). doi: 10.1111/adb.12769.

  • Ellis, A., Toussaint, A., Knouse, M., Thomas, A., Bongiovanni, A., Mayberry, H., Bhakta, S., Peer, K., Bangasser, D., & Wimmer, M. (2020). Paternal morphine self-administration produces object recognition memory deficits in female, but not male offspring. Psychopharmacology, 237(4), 1209-1221. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-05450-6.

  • Parikh, V. & Bangasser, D. (2020). Cholinergic signaling dynamics and cognitive control of attention. doi: 10.1007/7854_2020_133.

  • Kokras, N., Hodes, G., Bangasser, D., & Dalla, C. (2019). Sex differences in the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis: An obstacle to antidepressant drug development? British Journal of Pharmacology, 176(21), 4090-4106. doi: 10.1111/bph.14710.

  • Hupalo, S., Bryce, C., Bangasser, D., Berridge, C., Valentino, R., & Floresco, S. (2019). Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) circuit modulation of cognition and motivation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 103, 50-59. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.06.010.

  • Strzelewicz, A., Sanchez, E.O., Rondón-Ortiz, A., Raneri, A., Famularo, S., Bangasser, D., & Kentner, A. (2019). Access to a high resource environment protects against accelerated maturation following early life stress: A translational animal model of high, medium and low security settings. Hormones and Behavior, 111, 46-59. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.01.003.

  • Wiersielis, K., Ceretti, A., Hall, A., Famularo, S., Salvatore, M., Ellis, A., Jang, H., Wimmer, M., & Bangasser, D. (2019). Sex differences in corticotropin releasing factor regulation of medial septum-mediated memory formation. Neurobiology of Stress, 10. doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2019.100150.

  • Bangasser, D., Eck, S., & Sanchez, E.O. (2019). Sex differences in stress reactivity in arousal and attention systems. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44(1), 129-139. doi: 10.1038/s41386-018-0137-2.

  • Wellman, C., Bangasser, D., Bollinger, J., Coutellier, L., Logrip, M., Moench, K., & Urban, K. (2018). Sex differences in risk and resilience: Stress effects on the neural substrates of emotion and motivation. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(44), 9423-9432. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1673-18.2018.

  • Blume, S., Nam, H., Luz, S., Bangasser, D., & Bhatnagar, S. (2018). Sex- and Age-dependent Effects of Orexin 1 Receptor Blockade on Open-Field Behavior and Neuronal Activity. Neuroscience, 381, 11-21. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.04.005.

  • Wickens, M., Bangasser, D., & Briand, L. (2018). Sex differences in psychiatric disease: A focus on the glutamate system. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 11. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00197.

  • Bangasser, D., Eck, S., Telenson, A., & Salvatore, M. (2018). Sex differences in stress regulation of arousal and cognition. Physiology and Behavior, 187, 42-50. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.09.025.

  • Bangasser, D. & Wiersielis, K. (2018). Sex differences in stress responses: a critical role for corticotropin-releasing factor. Hormones, 17(1), 5-13. doi: 10.1007/s42000-018-0002-z.

  • Kaslow, N., Bangasser, D., Grus, C., McCutcheon, S., & Fowler, G. (2018). Facilitating pipeline progress from doctoral degree to first job. American Psychologist, 73(1), 47-62. doi: 10.1037/amp0000120.

  • Salvatore, M., Wiersielis, K., Luz, S., Waxler, D., Bhatnagar, S., & Bangasser, D. (2018). Sex differences in circuits activated by corticotropin releasing factor in rats. Hormones and Behavior, 97, 145-153. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.10.004.

  • Bangasser, D., Telenson, A., Wicks, B., Bergmann, J., Shore, M., Newcamp, N., Ceretti, A., Eck, S., Hall, A., Wiersielis, K., & Tucci, J. Chronic Stress Regulation of Sustained Attention and Cholinergic Dendritic Morphology in Rats. NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 42, S436-S436. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000416846302216&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Bangasser, D., Wicks, B., Waxler, D., & Eck, S. (2017). Touchscreen sustained attention task (SAT) for rats. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2017(127). doi: 10.3791/56219.

  • Bangasser, D., Dong, H., Carroll, J., Plona, Z., Ding, H., Rodriguez, L., McKennan, C., Csernansky, J., Seeholzer, S., & Valentino, R. (2017). Corticotropin-releasing factor overexpression gives rise to sex differences in Alzheimer's disease-related signaling. Molecular Psychiatry, 22(8), 1126-1133. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.185.

  • Wicks, B., Waxler, D., White, K., Duncan, N., Bergmann, J., Cole, R., Parikh, V., & Bangasser, D. (2017). Method for testing sustained attention in touchscreen operant chambers in rats. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 277, 30-37. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.12.003.

  • Bangasser, D. & Wicks, B. (2017). Sex-specific mechanisms for responding to stress. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 95(1-2), 75-82. doi: 10.1002/jnr.23812.

  • Shapero, B., McClung, G., Bangasser, D., Abramson, L., & Alloy, L. (2017). Interaction of Biological Stress Recovery and Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression in Adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(1), 91-103. doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0451-0.