Publications

  1. Freitas-Andrade M, Bechberger JF, MacVicar BA, Viau V, Naus CC (2017)
    Pannexin1 knockout and blockade reduces ischemic stroke injury in female, but not in male mice.
    Oncotarget. 2017 Apr 7.

  2. Radley J, Morilak D, Viau V, Campeau S
    Chronic stress and brain plasticity: Mechanisms underlying adaptive and maladaptive changes and implications for stress-related CNS disorders.
    Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2015 Nov;58:79-91. Review.

  3. Toufexis D, Rivarola MA, Lara H, Viau V
    Stress and the reproductive axis.
    J Neuroendocrinol. 2014 Sep;26(9):573-86. Review.

  4. Gray M, Innala L, Viau V (2014)
    Central vasopressin V1A receptor blockade alters patterns of cellular activation and prevents glucocorticoid habituation to repeated restraint stress exposure.
    International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 10: 1-11.

  5. Goel N, Innala L, Viau V (2014)
    Sex differences in serotonin (5-HT) 1A receptor regulation of HPA axis and dorsal raphe responses to acute restraint.
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 40: 232-241.

  6. Bingham B, Wang NX, Innala L, Viau V*. (2012)
    Postnatal aromatase blockade increases c-fos mRNA responses to acute restraint stress in adult male rats.
    Endocrinology 153:1603-1608.

  7. Shafiei N, Gray M, Viau V, Floresco SB (2012)
    Acute stress induces selective alterations in cost/benefit decision-making.
    Neuropsychopharmacology 37: 2194-2209.

  8. Hill MN, McLaughlin R, Pan B, Fitzgerald M, Roberts C, Lee T, Karatsoreos I, Mackie K, Viau V, Pickel V, McEwen BS, Liu QS, Gorzalka B, Hillard C (2011)
    Recruitment of prefrontal cortical endocannabinoid signaling by glucocorticoids contributes to termination of the stress response.
    Journal of Neuroscience 31: 10506-10515.

  9. Bingham B, Myung C, Innala L, Gray M, Anonuevo A, Viau V* (2011)
    Androgen receptors in the posterior bed nucleus of the stria terminalis increase neuropeptide expression and the stress-induced activation of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus.
    Neuropsychopharmacology 36:1433-1443.

  10. Bingham B, Gray M, Sun T, Viau V* (2011)
    Postnatal blockade of androgen receptors or aromatase impairs the expression of stress hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis habituation in adult male rats.
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:249-257.

  11. Williamson M, Bingham B, Gray M, Innala L, Viau V* (2010)
    The medial preoptic nucleus integrates the central influences of testosterone on the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and its extended circuitries.
    Journal of Neuroscience 30:11762-11770.

  12. Hill MN, McLaughlin RJ, Bingham B, Shrestha L, Lee TTY, Gray M, Hillard CJ, Gorzalka BB, Viau V* (2010)
    Endogenous cannabinoid signaling is essential for stress adaptation.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:9406-9411.

  13. Gray M, Bingham B, Viau V* (2010)
    A comparison of two repeated restraint stress paradigms on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis habituation, gonadal status and central neuropeptide expression in adult male rats.
    Journal of Neuroendocrinology 22:92-101.

  14. Hill MN, McLaughlin RJ, Morrish AC, Viau V, Floresco SB, Hillard CJ, Gorzalka BB (2009)
    Suppression of amygdalar endocannabinoid signaling by stress contributes to activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
    Neuropsychopharmacology 34:2733-2745.

  15. Linfoot I, Gray M, Bingham B, Williamson M, Pinel JP, Viau V* (2009)
    Naturally occurring variations in defensive burying behavior are associated with differences in vasopressin, oxytocin, and androgen receptors in the male rat.
    Progress in Neuro Psychopharmacol & Biological Psychiatry 33:1129-1140.

  16. Spritzer MD, Weinberg A, Viau V, Galea LAM (2009)
    Prior sexual experience increases hippocampal cell proliferation and decreases risk assessment behavior in response to acute predator odor stress in the male rat.
    Behavioural Brain Research 200: 106-112.

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