Peter Meerlo

Animal models of social stress: implications for the study of stress related pathologies in humans.

Intermittent exposure to social defeat and open-field test in rats: acute and long-term effects on ECG, body temperature and physical activity.

Cardiac autonomic reactivity and salivary cortisol in men and women exposed to social stressors: relationship with individual ethological profile.

The effect of social stimuli on the accumulation of sleep debt and need for recovery: does copulatory activity increase slow-wave sleep?

Beta-endorphin modulates the acute response to a social conflict in male mice but does not play a role in stress-induced changes in sleep.

Neonatal handling increases sensitivity to acute neurodegeneration in adult rats.

Effects of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) on vigilance states and EEG in mice.

Ageing-related decline in adenosine A1 receptor binding in the rat brain: an autoradiographic study.

The suprachiasmatic nucleus regulates sleep timing and amount in mice.

Effects of active shock avoidance learning on hippocampal neurogenesis and plasma levels of corticosterone.

Individual differences in cardiovascular response to social challenge.

Effects of sleep deprivation on cardiac autonomic and pituitary-adrenocortical stress reactivity in rats.

Hippocampal cell proliferation across the day: increase by running wheel activity, but no effect of sleep and wakefulness.

Sleep deprivation and daily torpor impair object recognition in Djungarian hamsters.

Sleep restriction by forced activity reduces hippocampal cell proliferation.

Too little sleep gradually desensitizes the serotonin 1A receptor system.

Sleep deprivation impairs object recognition in mice.

Sex differences in sleep: the response to sleep deprivation and restraint stress in mice.

Differential effects of chronic partial sleep deprivation and stress on serotonin-1A and muscarinic acetylcholine receptor sensitivity.

Repetitive stimulation of adenosine A1 receptors in vivo: changes in receptor numbers, G-proteins and A1 receptor agonist-induced hypothermia.

Restricted and disrupted sleep: effects on autonomic function, neuroendocrine stress systems and stress responsivity.

Concentration dependent actions of glucocorticoids on neuronal viability and survival.

Long-term effects of prenatal stress: changes in adult cardiovascular regulation and sensitivity to stress.

New neurons in the adult brain: the role of sleep and consequences of sleep loss.

Chronically restricted sleep leads to depression-like changes in neurotransmitter receptor sensitivity and neuroendocrine stress reactivity in rats.

Enhanced hippocampal neurogenesis in the absence of microglia T cell interaction and microglia activation in the murine running wheel model.

Physical exercise leads to rapid adaptations in hippocampal vasculature: temporal dynamics and relationship to cell proliferation and neurogenesis.

Chronic stress and antidepressant treatment have opposite effects on P-glycoprotein at the blood-brain barrier: an experimental PET study in rats.

Sleep deprivation impairs spatial working memory and reduces hippocampal AMPA receptor phosphorylation.

The novel antidepressant agomelatine normalizes hippocampal neuronal activity and promotes neurogenesis in chronically stressed rats.

Chronic sleep disturbance impairs glucose homeostasis in rats.

Resveratrol preserves cerebrovascular density and cognitive function in aging mice.

Maternal separation decreases adult hippocampal cell proliferation and impairs cognitive performance but has little effect on stress sensitivity and anxiety in adult Wistar rats.

Sleep deprivation impairs contextual fear conditioning and attenuates subsequent behavioural, endocrine and neuronal responses.

A time for learning and a time for sleep: the effect of sleep deprivation on contextual fear conditioning at different times of the day.

Coping with sleep deprivation: shifts in regional brain activity and learning strategy.

Chronic partial sleep deprivation reduces brain sensitivity to glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated neurotoxicity.

Increased food intake and changes in metabolic hormones in response to chronic sleep restriction alternated with short periods of sleep allowance.

Poor sleep as a potential causal factor in aggression and violence.

Telemetric study of sleep architecture and sleep homeostasis in the day-active tree shrew Tupaia belangeri.

Despite higher glucocorticoid levels and stress responses in female rats, both sexes exhibit similar stress-induced changes in hippocampal neurogenesis.

Remote long-term registrations of sleep-wake rhythms, core body temperature and activity in marmoset monkeys.

Daily acclimation handling does not affect hippocampal long-term potentiation or cause chronic sleep deprivation in mice.