Publications

Hall, M. B., Lemanski, E. A., & Schwarz, J. M. (2025). Prenatal maternal immune activation with lipopolysaccharide accelerates the developmental acquisition of neonatal reflexes in rat offspring without affecting maternal care behaviors. Biomolecules, 15(3), 347. [Article]

Lemanski, E. A., Collins, B. A., Ebenezer, A. T., Anilkumar, S., Langdon, V. A., Zheng, Q., ... Schwarz, J. M. & Wright-Jin, E. C. (2024). A novel non-invasive murine model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy demonstrates developmental delay and motor deficits with activation of inflammatory pathways in monocytes. Cells, 13(18), 1551. [Article]

Gifford, J. J., Pluchino, J. R., Della Valle, R., Van Weele, B., Brezoczky, E., Caulfield, J. I., ... & Schwarz, J. M. (2023). Effects of limited bedding and nesting on postpartum mood state in rats. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 35(7), e13275. [Article]

Hall, M. B., Willis, D. E., Rodriguez, E. L., & Schwarz, J. M. (2023). Maternal immune activation as an epidemiological risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: Considerations of timing, severity, individual differences, and sex in human and rodent studies. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1135559. [Review]

Bränn, E., Skalkidou, A., Schwarz, J., Papadopoulos, F. C., Poromaa, I. S., & Fransson, E. (2022). Longitudinal assessment of inflammatory markers in the peripartum period by depressive symptom trajectory groups. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 22, 100468. [Article]

Hall, M. B., Habash, N. M., Haas, N. A., & Schwarz, J. M. (2022). A method for the selective depletion of microglia in the dorsal hippocampus in the juvenile rat brain. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 374, 109567. [Article]

Sherer, M. L., Lemanski, E. A., Patel, R. T., Wheeler, S. R., Parcells, M. S., & Schwarz, J. M. (2021). A rat model of prenatal Zika virus infection and associated long-term outcomes. Viruses, 13(11), 2298. [Article]

Gifford, J. J., Pluchino, J. R., Della Valle, R., & Schwarz, J. M. (2021). Regional differences in various risk factors for Postpartum Depression: applying mixed models to the PRAMS dataset. Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2, 726422. [Article]

Turano, A., McAuley, E. M., Muench, M. C., & Schwarz, J. M. (2021). Examining the impact of neuroimmune dysregulation on social behavior of male and female juvenile rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 415, 113449. [Article]

Osborne, B. F., Beamish, S. B., & Schwarz, J. M. (2021). The effects of early-life immune activation on microglia-mediated neuronal remodeling and the associated ontogeny of hippocampal-dependent learning in juvenile rats. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 96, 239-255. [Article]

Patel, R. T., Gallamoza, B. M., Kulkarni, P., Sherer, M. L., Haas, N. A., Lemanski, E., ... & Schwarz, J. M. (2021). An examination of the long-term neurodevelopmental impact of prenatal zika virus infection in a rat model using a high resolution, longitudinal MRI approach. Viruses, 13(6), 1123. [Article]

Schwarz, J.M., McCarthy, M.M. (2021). Microglia, hormones, and behavior. In: J. G. Tasker, J. S. Bains, & J. A. Chowen (Eds.), Masterclass in neuroendocrinology: Glial-neuronal signaling in neuroendocrine systems (Vol. 11, pp. 207-228). Springer, Cham. [Chapter]

Spielberg, J. M., Schwarz, J. M., & Matyi, M. A. (2019). Anxiety in transition: neuroendocrine mechanisms supporting the development of anxiety pathology in adolescence and young adulthood. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 55, 100791. [Review]

Gomez, J., Haas, N. A., & Schwarz, J. M. (2019). An IL-6 receptor antagonist attenuates postpartum anhedonia, but has no effect on anhedonia precipitated by subchronic stress in female rats. Psychopharmacology, 236, 2983-2995. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M. (2019). Frank Beach Award Winner-The future of mental health research: Examining the interactions of the immune, endocrine and nervous systems between mother and infant and how they affect mental health. Hormones and Behavior, 114, 104521. [Review]

Lawrence, J. H., Sherer, M. L., Tavlarides-Hontz, P., Parcells, M. S., & Schwarz, J. M. (2019). An investigation into the immune response of cultured neural rat cells following Zika virus infection. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 332, 73-77. [Article]

Sherer, M. L., Khanal, P., Talham, G., Brannick, E. M., Parcells, M. S., & Schwarz, J. M. (2019). Zika virus infection of pregnant rats and associated neurological consequences in the offspring. PLoS One, 14(6), e0218539. [Article]

Sharma, R., van Mil, S., Melanson, B., Thomas, B. J., Rooke, J., Mallet, J. F., ... Schwarz, J. M. & Ismail, N. (2019). Programming effects of pubertal lipopolysaccharide treatment in male and female CD-1 mice. The Journal of Immunology, 202(7), 2131-2140. [Article]

Osborne, B. F., Turano, A., Caulfield, J. I., & Schwarz, J. M. (2019). Sex-and region-specific differences in microglia phenotype and characterization of the peripheral immune response following early-life infection in neonatal male and female rats. Neuroscience Letters, 692, 1-9. [Article]

Sharma, R., Rooke, J., Kolmogorova, D., Melanson, B., Mallet, J. F., Matar, C., Schwarz, J. M. & Ismail, N. (2018). Sex differences in the peripheral and central immune responses following lipopolysaccharide treatment in pubertal and adult CD-1 mice. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 71, 94-104. [Article]

Osborne, B. F., Turano, A., & Schwarz, J. M. (2018). Sex differences in the neuroimmune system. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 23, 118-123. [Review]

Sherer, M. L., Posillico, C. K., & Schwarz, J. M. (2018). The psychoneuroimmunology of pregnancy. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 51, 25-35. [Review]

Turano, A., Osborne, B.F., Schwarz, J.M. (2018). Sexual differentiation and sex differences in neural development. In: L. M. Coolen & D. R. Grattan (Eds.), Current topics in behavioral neurosciences: Neuroendocrine regulation of behavior (Vol. 43, pp. 69-110). Springer, Cham. [Chapter]

Sherer, M. L., Posillico, C. K., & Schwarz, J. M. (2017). An examination of changes in maternal neuroimmune function during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 66, 201-209. [Article]

Osborne, B. F., Caulfield, J. I., Solomotis, S. A., & Schwarz, J. M. (2017). Neonatal infection produces significant changes in immune function with no associated learning deficits in juvenile rats. Developmental Neurobiology, 77(10), 1221-1236. [Article]

Terasaki, L. S., & Schwarz, J. M. (2017). Impact of prenatal and subsequent adult alcohol exposure on pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in brain regions necessary for simple recognition memory. Brain Sciences, 7(10), 125. [Article]

Turano, A., Lawrence, J. H., & Schwarz, J. M. (2017). Activation of neonatal microglia can be influenced by other neural cells. Neuroscience Letters, 657, 32-37. [Article]

Terasaki, L. S., & Schwarz, J. M. (2016). Effects of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure during early gestation in rats on inflammation across the maternal-fetal-immune interface and later-life immune function in the offspring. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 11(4), 680-692. [Article]

Tannenbaum, C., Schwarz, J. M., Clayton, J. A., De Vries, G. J., & Sullivan, C. (2016). Evaluating sex as a biological variable in preclinical research: The devil in the details. Biology of Sex Differences, 7, 1-4. [Review]

Brenhouse, H. C., & Schwarz, J. M. (2016). Immunoadolescence: Neuroimmune development and adolescent behavior. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 70, 288-299. [Review]

Terasaki, L. S., Gomez, J., & Schwarz, J. M. (2016). An examination of sex differences in the effects of early-life opiate and alcohol exposure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1688), 20150123. [Review]

Posillico, C. K., & Schwarz, J. M. (2016). An investigation into the effects of antenatal stressors on the postpartum neuroimmune profile and depressive-like behaviors. Behavioural Brain Research, 298, 218-228. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M. (2016). Sex and the developing brain. In Sex differences in the central nervous system (pp. 221-245). Academic Press. [Chapter]

Posillico, C. K., Terasaki, L. S., Bilbo, S. D., & Schwarz, J. M. (2015). Examination of sex and minocycline treatment on acute morphine-induced analgesia and inflammatory gene expression along the pain pathway in Sprague–Dawley rats. Biology of Sex Differences, 6, 1-12. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M. (2015). Using fluorescence activated cell sorting to examine cell-type-specific gene expression in rat brain tissue. Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE, (99), 52537. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M., & Bilbo, S. D. (2013). Microglia and neurodevelopment: Programming of cognition throughout the lifespan. In A. W. Kusnecov & H. Anisman (Eds.), The Wiley‐Blackwell handbook of psychoneuroimmunology (pp. 296-312).  John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [Chapter]

Schwarz, J. M., & Bilbo, S. D. (2013). Adolescent morphine exposure affects long-term microglial function and later-life relapse liability in a model of addiction. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(3), 961-971. [Article]

Bilbo, S. D., & Schwarz, J. M. (2012). The immune system and developmental programming of brain and behavior. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 33(3), 267-286. [Review]

Schwarz, J. M., & Bilbo, S. D. (2012). Sex, glia, and development: interactions in health and disease. Hormones and Behavior, 62(3), 243-253. [Review]

Bilbo, S. D., Smith, S. H., & Schwarz, J. M. (2012). A lifespan approach to neuroinflammatory and cognitive disorders: A critical role for glia. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 7(1), 24-41. [Review]

Schwarz, J. M., Sholar, P. W., & Bilbo, S. D. (2012). Sex differences in microglial colonization of the developing rat brain. Journal of Neurochemistry, 120(6), 948-963. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M., and Bilbo, S. D. (2011). “The immune system and the developing brain” in Colloquium series on the developing brain (San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences), 1–128. [Book]

Schwarz, J. M., Hutchinson, M. R., & Bilbo, S. D. (2011). Early-life experience decreases drug-induced reinstatement of morphine CPP in adulthood via microglial-specific epigenetic programming of anti-inflammatory IL-10 expression. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49), 17835-17847. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M., & Bilbo, S. D. (2011). LPS elicits a much larger and broader inflammatory response than Escherichia coli infection within the hippocampus of neonatal rats. Neuroscience Letters, 497(2), 110-115. [Article]

Nugent, B. M., Schwarz, J. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2011). Hormonally mediated epigenetic changes to steroid receptors in the developing brain: implications for sexual differentiation. Hormones and Behavior, 59(3), 338-344. [Review]

Schwarz, J. M., Nugent, B. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2010). Developmental and hormone-induced epigenetic changes to estrogen and progesterone receptor genes in brain are dynamic across the life span. Endocrinology, 151(10), 4871-4881. [Article]

Wright, C. L., Schwarz, J., Dean, S. L., & McCarthy, M. M. (2010). Cellular mechanisms of estradiol-mediated sexual differentiation of the brain. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 21(9), 553-561. [Review]

McCarthy, M. M., Auger, A. P., Bale, T. L., De Vries, G. J., Dunn, G. A., Forger, N. G., ... Schwarz, J. M. & Wilson, M. E. (2009). The epigenetics of sex differences in the brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(41), 12815-12823. [Article]

Bilbo, S. D., & Schwarz, J. M. (2009). Early-life programming of later-life brain and behavior: A critical role for the immune system. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 670. [Review]

McCarthy, M. M., Wright, C. L., & Schwarz, J. M. (2009). New tricks by an old dogma: Mechanisms of the Organizational/Activational Hypothesis of steroid-mediated sexual differentiation of brain and behavior. Hormones and Behavior, 55(5), 655-665. [Review]

Schwarz, J. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2008). The role of neonatal NMDA receptor activation in defeminization and masculinization of sex behavior in the rat. Hormones and Behavior, 54(5), 662-668. [Article]

McCarthy, M. M., Schwarz, J. M., Wright, C. L., & Dean, S. (2008). Mechanisms mediating oestradiol modulation of the developing brain. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 20(6), 777-783. [Review]

Schwarz, J. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2008). Steroid‐induced sexual differentiation of the developing brain: multiple pathways, one goal. Journal of Neurochemistry, 105(5), 1561-1572. [Review]

Schwarz, J. M., Liang, S. L., Thompson, S. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2008). Estradiol induces hypothalamic dendritic spines by enhancing glutamate release: A mechanism for organizational sex differences. Neuron, 58(4), 584-598. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M., Liang, S. L., Thompson, S. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2008). Estradiol induces dendritic spines by enhancing glutamate release independent of transcription: A mechanism for organizational sex differences. Neuron, 58(4), 584. [Article]

Hadjimarkou, M. M., Benham, R., Schwarz, J. M., Holder, M. K., & Mong, J. A. (2008). Estradiol suppresses rapid eye movement sleep and activation of sleep‐active neurons in the ventrolateral preoptic area. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(7), 1780-1792. [Article]

Schwarz, J. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2008). Cellular mechanisms of estradiol-mediated masculinization of the brain. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 109(3-5), 300-306. [Review]

Speert, D. B., Konkle, A. T., Zup, S. L., Schwarz, J. M., Shiroor, C., Taylor, M. E., & McCarthy, M. M. (2007). Focal adhesion kinase and paxillin: novel regulators of brain sexual differentiation? Endocrinology, 148(7), 3391-3401. [Article]

Todd, B. J., Schwarz, J. M., Mong, J. A., & McCarthy, M. M. (2007). Glutamate AMPA/kainate receptors, not GABAA receptors, mediate estradiol‐induced sex differences in the hypothalamus. Developmental Neurobiology, 67(3), 304-315. [Article]

Todd, B. J., Schwarz, J. M., & McCarthy, M. M. (2005). Prostaglandin-E2: A point of divergence in estradiol-mediated sexual differentiation. Hormones and Behavior, 48(5), 512-521. [Article]

Numan, M., Numan, M. J., Schwarz, J. M., Neuner, C. M., Flood, T. F., & Smith, C. D. (2005). Medial preoptic area interactions with the nucleus accumbens–ventral pallidum circuit and maternal behavior in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 158(1), 53-68. [Article]