Publications (Selected)

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• Nashawi H, Foltz CT, Smail MA, Buesing DR, Herman JP, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2024 Dec 2) The impact of limited sucrose intake on perineuronal nets of parvalbumin interneurons in the basolateral amygdala: A potential role in stress resilience. Physiol Behav. 290:114774. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114774. Online ahead of print.PMID: 39631451
  
• Buesing D, Fourman S, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2024 Nov 26) Time-limited access to palatable food reveals differential effects of psychological stress on homeostatic vs. hedonic feeding behavior in male rats. Appetite. :107791. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107791. Online ahead of print.PMID: 39608722
  
• Almehmadi K, Fourman S, Buesing D, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2023 Oct 15) Western diet-induced obesity interferes with the HPA axis-blunting effects of palatable food in male rats. Physiol Behav. 270:114285. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114285. Epub 2023 Jun 29.PMID: 37392828
• Fourman S, Buesing D, Girvin S, Nashawi H, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2021 Dec 1) Limited cheese intake reduces HPA axis and behavioral stress responses in male rats. Physiol Behav. 242:113614. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113614. Epub 2021 Oct 1. PMID: 34600921
• Egan AE, Seemiller LR, Packard AEB, Solomon MB, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2019) Palatable food reduces anxiety-like behaviors and HPA axis responses to stress in female rats in an estrous cycle-specific manner. Horm Behav. 115: 104557.
• Egan AE, Thompson AMK, Buesing D, Fourman SF, Packard AEB, Terefe T, Li D, Wang X, Song S, Solomon MB, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2018) Palatable food affects HPA axis responsivity and forebrain neurocircuitry in an estrous cycle-specific manner in female rats. Neuroscience. 384: 224-240.
• Ryan KK, Packard AEB, Larson KR, Halcomb K, Stout J, Fourman SM, Thompson AMK, Ludwick K, Habegger KM, Stemmer K, Itoh N, Perez-Tilve D, Tschoep M, Seeley RJ, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2018) Dietary manipulations that induce ketosis activate the HPA axis via fibroblast growth factor-21. Endocrinology. 159: 400-413.
• Packard AEB, Di S, Egan AE, Fourman SM, Tasker JG, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2017) Sucrose-induced plasticity in the basolateral amygdala in a ‘comfort’ feeding paradigm. Brain Struct Funct. 222: 4035-4050.
  
• Packard AEB, Zhang J, Myers B, Ko CW, Wang F, Tso P, Ulrich-Lai YM. (2017) Apolipoprotein A-IV constrains HPA and behavioral stress responsivity in a strain-dependent manner. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 86: 34-44.
• Song Z, Xie W, Chen S, Strong JA, Print MS, Wang JI, Shareef AF, Ulrich-Lai YM, Zhang JM. (2017) High-fat diet increases pain behaviors in rats with or without obesity. Sci Rep. 7: 10350.
• Myers B, McKlveen JM, Morano R, Ulrich-Lai YM, Solomon MB, Wilson SP, Herman JP. (2017) Vesicular glutamate transporter 1 knockdown in infralimbic prefrontal cortex exacerbates neuroendocrine responses to chronic stress in male rats. Endocrinology. 158: 3579-3591.
• Ulrich-Lai YM. (2016) Self-medication with sucrose. Curr Opin Behav. Sci 9: 78-83.