Paul Marvar
@pmarvar.bsky.social
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Conducting research on how PTSD, stress, and trauma impact both brain and heart health, uncovering the hidden links between emotional experiences and cardiovascular disease. Associate Professor, George Washington University (since 2013)
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Paul Marvar
@pmarvar.bsky.social
· Jul 19
Neuroimmune, metabolic and oxidative stress pathways in major depressive disorder
Nature Reviews Neurology - In this Review, the authors describe perturbations in neuroimmune, metabolic and oxidative pathways in major depressive disorder and explore how imbalances in each of...
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Paul Marvar
@pmarvar.bsky.social
· Jul 12
A daughter's message of a life well lived and Lewy Body Dementia
David Gergen once said, "Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path and get there our own way." Gergen's path through life is filled with achievements and honors, including:
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Alex Shackman
@ajshackman.bsky.social
· Jul 3
Systems biology dissection of PTSD and MDD across brain regions, cell types, and blood - PubMed
The molecular pathology of stress-related disorders remains elusive. Our brain multiregion, multiomic study of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) included the cen...
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Alex Shackman
@ajshackman.bsky.social
· May 26
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum - Learning & Behavior
In order to effectively thwart predation, antipredator defensive behaviors must be matched to the current spatio-temporal relationship to the predator. We have proposed a model where different defensi...
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Paul Marvar
@pmarvar.bsky.social
· May 15
Tracking Conditioned Fear in Pair-Housed Mice Using Deep Learning and Real-Time Cue Delivery
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex and prevalent neuropsychiatric condition that arises in response to exposure to a traumatic event. A common diagnostic criterion for PTSD includes he...
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Paul Marvar
@pmarvar.bsky.social
· Apr 6
Integrating Aversive Memories in the Basolateral Amygdala
Decades of research have established a critical role of the basolateral complex of
the amygdala (BLA) in the encoding and storage of aversive memories. Much of this
work utilizes Pavlovian fear condit...
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