RAZ YIRMIYA

Selected Publications - Most significant Publications

Edited Books

Yirmiya, R. and Taylor, A. N. (Eds.), Alcohol, Immunity and Cancer. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 1993.

Dantzer, R., Wollman, E. E., and Yirmiya, R. (Eds.), Cytokines, Stress and Depression. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press: New York, 1999.

Papers

Yirmiya, R., Endotoxin produces a depressive-like episode in rats. Brain Research, 711: 163-174, 1996. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R., Behavioral and psychological effects of immune activation: implications for ‘depression due to a general medical condition’. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 10: 470-476, 1997.

Reichenberg, A., Yirmiya, R., Schuld, A., Kraus T., Haak M., Morag A., and Pollmдcher T., Cytokine- associated emotional and cognitive disturbances in humans. Archives of General Psychiatry, 58: 445-452, 2001. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R., Pollak, Y., Barak, O., Avitsur, R., Ovadia, H., Bette, M., Weihe, E., and Weidenfeld, J., Effects of antidepressant drugs on the behavioral and physiological responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in rodents. Neuropsychopharmacology, 24: 531-544, 2001. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R., Winocur, G., and Goshen, I. Brain interleukin-1 is involved in spatial memory and passive avoidance conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 78: 379-389, 2002. [Abstract] 

Avital, A., Goshen, I., Kamseler, A., Segal, M., Iverfeldt, K., Richter-Levin, G., and Yirmiya, R. Impaired interleukin-1 (IL-1) signaling is associated with deficits in hippocampal memory processes and neural plasticity. Hippocampus, 13: 826-834, 2003. [Abstract]

Yirmiya R, Goshen I, Bajayo A, Kreisel T, Feldman S, Tam J, Trembovler V, Csernus V, Shohami E, Bab I. Depression induces bone loss through stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,103(45):16876-16881, 2006.[Abstract]

Goshen, I., Kreisel T, Ben-Menachem-Zidon O, Weidenfeld, J., Ben-Hur T. and Yirmiya R. Brain interleukin-1 mediates chronic stress-induced depression in mice via adrenocortical activation and hippocampal neurogenesis suppression. Mol. Psychiatry, 13: 717-728, 2008.

Ben Menachem- Zidon, O., Goshen, I., Kreisel, T., Ben Menahem, Y., Reinhartz, E., Ben Hur, T., Yirmiya, R. Intrahippocampal transplantation of transgenic neural precursor cells over-expressing interleukin-1 receptor antagonist blocks chronic stress-induced impairment in memory and neurogenesis. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33: 2251-62, 2008.

Goshen, I., Avital, A., Kreisel, T., Licht, T., Segal, M., Yirmiya, R., Environmental enrichment restores memory functioning in mice with impaired IL-1 signaling via reinstatement of long term potentiation and spine size enlargement. Journal of Neuroscience, 29: 3395-340, 2009.

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