Vitale EM, Ford EB, Ahern MS & Lonstein JS (2025). Nucleus accumbens serotonin 1A receptor expression is altered by female reproduction and regulates postpartum affective and caregiving behaviors. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 39, 855-869.
Lonstein JS, Meinhardt TA, Pavlini P, Kokras N, Dalla C, Charlier TD & Pawluski JL (2024). Maternal probiotic Lactocaseibacillus rhamnosus HN001 treatment alters postpartum anxiety, cortical monoamines, and the gut microbiome. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 165, 107033.
Lonstein JS, Vitale EM, Olekanna D, McLocklin A, Pence N, Bredewold R, Veenema AH, Johnson AW & Burt SA (2023). Disrupted anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early-life disadvantage. Developmental Psychobiology, 65, e22421.
Grieb ZA & Lonstein JS (2022). Oxytocin-serotonin interactions and maternal care. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20210062-74.
Ragan CM, Ahmed EI, Vitale EM, Linning-Duffy KJ, Miller-Smith SM, Maguire J & Lonstein JS (2022). Postpartum state, but not maternal caregiving or level of anxiety, influences medial prefrontal cortex GAD65 and vGAT in female rats. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, 2:746518.
Lonstein, J.S., Almuerza, M., Levy, F. & Fleming, A.S. (2022). Neuroendocrine control of maternal behavior. In: Neuroendocrinology of Pregnancy and Lactation; Masterclass in Neuroendocrinology Series. PJ Brunton & DJ Grattan (eds). Springer Press.
Grieb ZA, Ford EB, Manfredsson F, Liu B, Krishnan K & Lonstein JS (2021). Midbrain dorsal raphe oxytocin receptors are critical for postpartum social and affective behaviors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 131, 105332.
Grieb ZA, Lonstein JS (2021). Oxytocin receptor expression in the midbrain dorsal raphe is dynamic across female reproduction in rats. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 33(2):e12926.
Grieb ZA, Vitale EM, Morrell JI, Lonstein JS, Pereira M. (2020). Decreased mesolimbic dopaminergic signaling underlies the waning of maternal caregiving across the postpartum period in rats. Psychopharmacology, 37(4):1107-1119.
Pawluski JL, Li M, Lonstein JS. (2019). Serotonin and motherhood: From molecules to mood. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 53:1-10.
Lonstein JS (2019). The dynamic serotonin system of the maternal brain. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 22:237-243
Grieb ZA, Holschbach MA, Lonstein JS (2018). Interaction between postpartum stage and litter age on maternal caregiving and medial preoptic area orexin. Physiology and Behavior, 94:430-436.
Holschbach MA, Vitale EM, Lonstein JS. (2018). Serotonin-specific lesions of the dorsal raphe disrupt maternal aggression and caregiving in postpartum rats. Behavioral Brain Research 348:53-64.
Grieb ZA, Tierney SM, Lonstein JS (2018). Postpartum inhibition of ovarian steroid action increases aspects of maternal caregiving and reduces medial preoptic area progesterone receptor expression in female rats. Hormones and Behavior 96:31-41.
Pawluski JL, Lonstein JS, Fleming AS (2017). The neurobiology of postpartum anxiety and depression. Trends in Neuroscience 40(2):106-120.
Holschbach MA, Lonstein JS. (2017). Motherhood and infant contact regulate neuroplasticity in the serotonergic midbrain dorsal raphe. Psychoneuroendocrinology 76:97-106.
Harding KM, Lonstein JS (2016). Extensive juvenile "babysitting" facilitates later adult maternal responsiveness, decreases anxiety, and increases dorsal raphe tryptophan hydroxylase-2 expression in female laboratory rats. Developmental Psychobiology 58(4):492-508.
Ragan CM, Harding KM, Lonstein JS. (2016). Associations among within-litter differences in early mothering received and later emotional behaviors, mothering, and cortical tryptophan hydroxylase-2 expression in female laboratory rats. Hormones and Behavior 77:62-71.
Agrati D, Lonstein JS (2016). Affective changes during the postpartum period: Influences of genetic and experiential factors. Hormones and Behavior 77:141-52.
Lonstein JS, Lévy F, Fleming AS (2015). Common and divergent psychobiological mechanisms underlying maternal behaviors in non-human and human mammals. Hormones and Behavior 73:156-85.
Lonstein JS, Maguire J, Meinlschmidt G, Neumann ID. (2014). Emotion and mood adaptations in the peripartum female:complementary contributions of GABA and oxytocin. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 26(10):649-64.
Lonstein, J.S., Pereira M., Morrell, J.I. & Marler, C.A. (2014). Parental Behavior. In: Knobil and Neill’s Physiology of Reproduction, 4th edition. T.M. Plant, A.J. Zeleznik (Eds), Elsevier, New York. Pp. 2371-2438.
Harding KM, Lonstein JS. (2014). Placentophagia in weanling female laboratory rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(6):1290-9.
Ragan CM, Lonstein JS. (2014). Differential postpartum sensitivity to the anxiety-modulating effects of offspring contact is associated with innate anxiety and brainstem levels of dopamine beta-hydroxylase in female laboratory rats. Neuroscience, 256:433-44.
Motta SC, Guimarães CC, Furigo IC, Sukikara MH, Baldo MV, Lonstein JS, Canteras NS. (2013). Ventral premammillary nucleus as a critical sensory relay to the maternal aggression network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 110(35):14438-43.
Smith CD, Piasecki CC, Weera M, Olszewicz J, Lonstein JS. (2013). Noradrenergic alpha-2 receptor modulators in the ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: effects on anxiety behavior in postpartum and virgin female rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 127(4):582-97.
Lansing SW, French JA, Lonstein JS. (2013). Circulating plasma testosterone during early neonatal life in the socially monogamous and biparental prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(2):306-9.
Smith CD, Holschbach MA, Olsewicz J, Lonstein JS. (2012). Effects of noradrenergic alpha-2 receptor antagonism or noradrenergic lesions in the ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial preoptic area on maternal care in female rats. Psychopharmacology, 224(2):263-76.
Ahmed EI, Northcutt KV, Lonstein JS. (2012). L-amino acid decarboxylase- and tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive cells in the extended olfactory amygdala and elsewhere in the adult prairie vole brain. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 43:76-85.
Miller SM, Piasecki CC, Lonstein JS. (2011). Use of the light-dark box to compare the anxiety-related behavior of virgin and postpartum female rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 100:130-7.
Northcutt, KV and Lonstein, JS (2011). Neuroanatomical projections of the species-speific tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive cells of the male prairie vole extended amygdala. Brain Behavior and Evolution, 77: 176-192.
Miller, SM, Piasecki, CC, Peabody, MF, and Lonstein, JS (2010). GABA(A) receptor antagonism in the ventrocaudal periaqueductal gray increases anxiety in the anxiety-resistant postpartum rat. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 95(4):457-65.
Cavanaugh, BL and Lonstein, JS (2010). Androgenic and oestrogenic influences on tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive cells of the prairie vole medial amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 22(4):217-225.
Holmes, MM, Musa, M, Lonstein, JS, and Monks, DA (2009). Sexual dimorphism and hormone responsiveness in the spinal cord of the socially monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster). Journal of Comparative Neurology 516(2):117-124.
Northcutt, KV and Lonstein, JS (2009). Social contact elicits immediate-early gene expression in dopaminergic cells of the male prairie vole extended olfactory amygdala. Neuroscience 163(1):9-22.
Miller, SM and Lonstein, JS (2009). Dopaminergic projections to the medial preoptic area of postpartum rats. Neuroscience 159(4):1384-1396.