For a full list of publications, please see my bibliography on PubMed.
Opendak M, Theisen E, Blomkvist A, Hollis K, Sarro E, Lind TE, Tottenham N, Dozier M, Wilson D, Sullivan RM (2020) Adverse caregiving in infancy blunts neural processing of the mother: Translating across species. Nature Communications. 11(1):1119. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14801-3.
Raineki C*, Opendak M*, Sarro E, Showler A, Bui K, McEwen BS, Wilson DA, Sullivan RM (2019) What happens to the infant during maltreatment? Stress targets hippocampus but stress with mother targets amygdala and social behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(45):22821-22832. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1907170116
Opendak M*, Robinson-Drummer P*, Wood K, Zanca RM, Chan S, Woo J, Blomkvist A, Venkataraman G, Tan S, Kirchner E, Lundstrom J, Wilson DA, Serrano P, Sullivan RM (2019) Neurobiology of maternal regulation of infant fear: The role of mesolimbic dopamine and its disruption by maltreatment. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44(7):1247-1257. doi: 10.1038/s41386-019-0340-9
Opendak M, Zanca R, Anane E, Serrano PA, Sullivan RM (2018) Developmental transitions in amygdala memory molecules: PKC isoforms and AMPA receptors in infancy. Scientific Reports, 8(14679). doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32762-y
Opendak M, Offit L, Monari P, Schoenfeld TJ, Sonti AN, Cameron HA, Gould E (2016) Lasting adaptations in social behavior produced by social disruption and inhibition of adult neurogenesis. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(26):7027-38. PMCID: PMC4926244. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4435-15.2016
Callaghan B, Meyer H, Opendak M, Li A, Van Tieghem M, Harmon C, Lee FS, Sullivan RM, Tottenham N (2019) The developmental ecology of fear neurobiology: Scaffolding by caregiving. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050718-095727. PMID: 30786246
Opendak M, Gould E, Sullivan RM (2017) Early-life adversity during the infant sensitive period for attachment: Programming of behavioral neurobiology of threat processing and social behavior. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 25:145-159. PMCID: PMC5478471. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.002
*indicates co-authors with equal contributions