D. A. Smagin

TL;DR: The effect of repeated social defeats and, for contrast, repeated aggression in daily agonistic interactions on the behaviors of CD-1 male mice is studied to believe that these animals may be potentially used for modeling the key symptoms of bipolar disorder.

TL;DR: It has been shown with using the model of mixed anxiety/depression disorder caused by chronic social defeat stress, that the anxiety and depression are changed under the influence of psychotropic drugs independently.

TL;DR: This study first shows remodeling of molecular base in the ECM under development of experimental psychoneuropathologies and indicates defects of ECM specific for brain regions in mice with alternative social experiences.

TL;DR: Study of expression genes encoding proteins involved in the metabolism, transport, and reception of serotonin, catecholamines, glutamate, and GABA in the ventral tegmental area of the brain suggested that a key role in the synchronous changes in the expression of genes for different neurotransmitter systems may be played by the Drd2 and Htr3a genes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied alterations of the transcriptome in mice with prolonged positive or negative fighting experience and identified key gene networks associated with the regulation of serotonergic system functioning.