Morgunova A, O’Toole N, Abboud F, Coury S, Chen GG, Teixeira M, Fitzgerald E, Turecki G, Gifuni AJ, Gotlib IH, Nagy C, Meaney MJ, Ho TC, & Flores C (2025). Peripheral microrna signatures in adolescent depression. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 100505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100505
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Capolicchio T, Hernandez G, Shi SS W, Dube E, Estrada K, Giroux M, Nieman JB, Pausova Z, Flores C†. Divergent outcomes of delta 9 – tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in adolescence on mesocortical dopamine and cognitive development in male and female mice. Psychopharmacology, in press, 2025.
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Hernandez G., Zhao J., Niu Z., MacGowan D., Capolicchio T., Song A., Gul S., Moiz A., Herrera I., Day J. J., & Flores C. (2025). Amphetamine in adolescence induces a sex-specific mesolimbic dopamine phenotype in the adult prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.26.640363
Morgunova A., Teixeira M., & Flores C. (2024). Perspective on adolescent psychiatric illness and emerging role of microRNAs as biomarkers of risk. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience: JPN, 49(4), E282–E288. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.240072
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Shohayeb B, Sempert K, Wallis TP, Meunier FA, Durisic N, O'Brien EA, Flores C, Cooper HM. (2024). BDNF-dependent nanoscale organization of Neogenin and the WAVE Regulatory Complex promotesactin remodelling in dendritic spines. iScience, 27(9), 110621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110621
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Avramescu RG, Capolicchio T, Flores C. (2024). Dynamic Insights into Dopamine Axon Growth in Adolescence and its Implications for Psychiatric Risk. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 59:101435 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101435
*Invited manuscript for a Special Issue on Dopamine Across Action, Space and Time
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Hoops, D., Kyne, R. F., Salameh, S., MacGowan, D., Avramescu, R. G., Ewing, E., He, A. T., Orsini, T., Durand, A., Popescu, C., Zhao, J. M., Schatz, K. C., Li, L., Carroll, Q. E., Liu, G., Paul, M. J., & Flores, C. (2024). The scheduling of adolescence with Netrin-1 and UNC5C. eLife12:RP88261 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.88261.4
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Hoops, D., Yee, Y., Hammill, C., Wong, S., Manitt, C., Bedell, B. J., Cahill, L., Lerch, J. P., Flores, C., & Sled, J. G. (2024). Disproportionate neuroanatomical effects of DCC haploinsufficiency in adolescence compared with adulthood: links to dopamine, connectivity, covariance, and gene expression brain maps in mice. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN, 49(3), E157–E171. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.230106
Pantoja-Urbán, A. H., Richer, S., Giroux, M., Nouel, D., & Flores, C. (2024). Social Defeat Stress Model for Adolescent C57BL/6 Male and Female Mice. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, (205), 10.3791/66455. https://doi.org/10.3791/66455
* Invited Manuscript for Special Issue on Early Life Stress
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Avramescu, R. G., Hernandez, G., & Flores, C. (2024). Rewiring the future: drugs abused in adolescence may predispose to mental illness in adult life by altering dopamine axon growth. Journal of Neural Transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 131, 461–467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-023-02722-6
* Invited Review for Special Issue on Addiction
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Sempert, K., Shohayeb, B., Lanoue, V., O’Brien, E., Flores, C., Cooper, H. (2023) RGMa and Neogenin control dendritic spine morphogenesis via WAVE Regulatory Complex-mediated actin remodelling. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, (16). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2023.1253801
* Invited manuscript for a special issue on Regulators of Synapse Formation: Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms and its Dysregulation in Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
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Morgunova, A., Ibrahim, P., Chen, G.G., Coury, S.M., Turecki, G., Meaney, M.J., Gifuni, A., Gotlib, I.H., Nagy, C., Ho, T.C., Flores, C. (2023). Preparation and Processing of Dried Blood Spots for MicroRNA Sequencing. Biology Methods and
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Caldwell, M., Ayo-Jibunoh, V., Mendoza, J.C., Brimblecombe, K.R., Reynolds, L.M., Jiang, X.Y.Z., Alarcon, C., Fiore, E., Tomaio, J.N., Phillips, G.R., Mingote, S., Flores, C., Casaccia,P., Liu, J.,
Cragg, S.J., McCloskey, D.P., Leora Yetnikoff L. (2023). Axo-glial interactions between midbrain dopamine neurons and oligodendrocyte lineage cells in the anterior corpus callosum. Brain Structure Function. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-023-02695-y
Reynolds, L. M., Hernandez, G., MacGowan, D., Popescu, C., Nouel, D., Cuesta, S., Burke, S., Savell, K. E., Zhao, J., Restrepo-Lozano, J. M., Giroux, M., Israel, S., Orsini, T., He, S., Wodzinski, M., Avramescu, R. G., Pokinko, M., Epelbaum, J. G., Niu, Z., Pantoja-Urbán, A. H., Trudeau, L. E., Kolb, B., Day, J. J., Flores, C. (2023). Amphetamine disrupts dopamine axon growth in adolescence by a sex-specific mechanism in mice. Nature Communications, 14(1), 4035. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39665-1
Batra, A., Cuesta, S., Alves, M. B., Restrepo, J. M., Giroux, M., Laureano, D. P., Mucellini Lovato, A. B., Miguel, P. M., Machado, T. D., Dalle Molle, R., Flores, C., & Silveira, P. P. (2023). Relationship between insulin and Netrin-1/DCC guidance cue pathway regulation in the prefrontal cortex of rodents exposed to prenatal dietary restriction. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 1–7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204017442300017X
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Pantoja-Urbán, A. H., Richer, S., Mittermaier, A., Giroux, M., Nouel, D., Hernandez, G., & Flores, C. (2024). Gains and Losses: Resilience to Social Defeat Stress in Adolescent Female Mice. Biological psychiatry, 95(1), 37–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.06.014
Mahmud, A., Avramescu, R. G., Niu, Z., & Flores, C. (2023). Awakening the dormant: Role of axonal guidance cues in stress-induced reorganization of the adult prefrontal cortex leading to depression-like behavior. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 17, 1113023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2023.1113023
* Invited review for special issue on Horizons in Neural Circuits, Volume II; Editors Takao Hentch and Edward Ruthauzer
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Avramescu, R. G., & Flores, C. (2023). We're not in Kansas anymore: ectopic dopaminergic terminals as an explanation for the positive symptoms in psychiatric pathology. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 48(1), E74–E77. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.230015
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Reynolds, L.M., Pantoja-Urbán, A.H., MacGowan, D., Manitt, C., Nouel, D., Flores, C. (2023). Quantifying Dopaminergic Innervation in Rodents Using Unbiased Stereology. In: Fuentealba-Evans, J.A., Henny, P. (eds) Dopaminergic System Function and Dysfunction: Experimental Approaches. Neuromethods, vol 193. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2799-0_2
Darcq, E., Nouel, D., Hernandez, G., Pokinko, M., Ash, P., Moquin, L., Gratton, A., Kieffer, B., & Flores, C. (2023). Reduced dopamine release in Dcc haploinsufficiency male mice abolishes the rewarding effects of cocaine but not those of morphine and ethanol. Psychopharmacology, 240(3), 637–646. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06288-1
* Invited manuscript for Special Issue of Psychopharmacology to honor the contributions of Dr. Nadia Chaudhri to addiction research and society at large​
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Restrepo-Lozano JM, Flores C, Silveira PP. (2022) Novel functional genomic approaches bridging psychiatry and neuroscience. Biological Psychiatry: global open science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.07.005
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Vassilev, P., Fonseca, E., Hernandez, G., Pantoja-Urban, A. H., Giroux, M., Nouel, D., Van Leer, E., & Flores, C. (2022). Custom-Built Operant Conditioning Setup for Calcium Imaging and Cognitive Testing in Freely Moving Mice. eNeuro, 9(1), ENEURO.0430-21.2022. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0430-21.2022
Morgunova, A., Flores, C. (2022). MicroRNAs as promising peripheral sensors of prefrontal cortex developmental trajectory and psychiatric risk. Neuropsychopharmacology: official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 47, 387–388. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01113-3
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Restrepo-Lozano JM, Pokhvisneva I, Wang Z, Patel S, Meaney MJ, Silveira PP, Flores C. (2022) Corticolimbic DCC gene co-expression networks as predictors of impulsivity in children. Molecular Psychiatry, 27, 2742–2750.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01533-7
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Vassilev, P., Salim, M., Popescu, C., Flores, C., Hernandez, G. (2020) Low-cost conditioned place preference setup including video recording and analysis of behaviour. MethodsX, Apr 25:7:100899. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.100899
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