Methadone access for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic within the United States and Canada

…, P Bach, S Van Buren, JA Chaiton… - JAMA Network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Methadone access may be uniquely vulnerable to disruption during COVID-19,
and even short delays in access are associated with decreased medication initiation and …

Early and late effects of maternal experience on hippocampal neurogenesis, microglia, and the circulating cytokine milieu

RS Eid, JA Chaiton, SE Lieblich, TS Bodnar… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The maternal brain displays considerable plasticity, and motherhood is associated with
changes in affective and cognitive function. Motherhood can alter the trajectory of brain aging, …

Ovarian hormones, but not fluoxetine, impart resilience within a chronic unpredictable stress model in middle-aged female rats

R Mahmoud, SR Wainwright, JA Chaiton, SE Lieblich… - …, 2016 - Elsevier
Depression is more prevalent in women than in men, and women are at a heightened risk for
depression during the postpartum and perimenopause. There is also evidence to suggest …

Androgens enhance adult hippocampal neurogenesis in males but not females in an age-dependent manner

…, SR Wainwright, C Chow, JA Chaiton… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Androgens (testosterone and DHT) increase adult hippocampal neurogenesis by increasing
survival of new neurons in male rats and mice via an androgen receptor pathway, but it is …

Selective activation of estrogen receptors α and β: Implications for depressive-like phenotypes in female mice exposed to chronic unpredictable stress

…, SE Lieblich, P Duarte-Guterman, JA Chaiton… - Hormones and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The estrogen receptor (ER) mechanisms by which 17β-estradiol influences depressive-like
behaviour have primarily been investigated acutely and not within an animal model of …

Chronic aromatase inhibition increases ventral hippocampal neurogenesis in middle-aged female mice

JA Chaiton, SJ Wong, LAM Galea - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2019 - Elsevier
Letrozole, a third-generation aromatase inhibitor, prevents the production of estrogens in
the final step in conversion from androgens. Due to its efficacy at suppressing estrogens, …

Early and Late Effects of Maternal Experience on Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Microglia, and the Circulating Cytokine Milieu

R Mahmoud, JA Chaiton, SE Lieblich, TS Bodnar… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
The maternal brain displays considerable plasticity, and motherhood is associated with
changes in affective and cognitive function. Motherhood can alter the trajectory of brain ageing, …

Ovarian hormones as determinants of risk and resilience to stress: behavioural, neuroplastic, and neuroimmune outcomes

R Mahmoud - 2019 - open.library.ubc.ca
… Wainwright, Chaiton, and Lieblich. Mahmoud performed all statistical analyses and wrote the
manuscript with supervision and feedback from Dr. … To Jessica Chaiton, who joined the lab …

[HTML][HTML] LGBTQ2S+ youth perspectives on mental healthcare provider bias, standards of care, and accountability

M Chaiton, R Thorburn, M Sutton, P Feng - Youth, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study explores the experiences of LGBTQ2S+ youth while accessing mental health and
substance use care services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a series of facilitated …

A machine learning approach to identify predictors of frequent vaping and vulnerable californian youth subgroups

R Fu, J Shi, M Chaiton, AM Leventhal… - Nicotine and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Machine learning presents a unique opportunity to improve electronic cigarette (vaping)
monitoring in youth. Here we built a random forest model to predict frequent vaping …