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Jonathan Epp

University of Calgary
Verified email at ucalgary.ca
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Endocrine regulation of cognition and neuroplasticity: our pursuit to unveil the complex interaction between hormones, the brain, and behaviour.

LAM Galea, KA Uban, JR Epp… - Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Les hormones de stress et gonadiques modulent la neuroplasticité et le comportement.
Cette revue met l'accent sur les découvertes des dernières décennies quant aux effets des …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of loneliness and social isolation on the development of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's Disease

Y Ren, A Savadlou, S Park, P Siska, JR Epp… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, observed at a higher incidence
in women compared with men. Treatments aimed at improving pathology in AD remain …

[HTML][HTML] Neurogenesis-mediated forgetting minimizes proactive interference

JR Epp, R Silva Mera, S Köhler, SA Josselyn… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Established memories may interfere with the encoding of new memories, particularly when
existing and new memories overlap in content. By manipulating levels of hippocampal …

Hippocampus-dependent learning promotes survival of new neurons in the dentate gyrus at a specific time during cell maturation

JR Epp, MD Spritzer, LAM Galea - Neuroscience, 2007 - Elsevier
Adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus continues throughout life and may play an important
role in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory. Previous research has been …

[HTML][HTML] Suppression of adult neurogenesis impairs population coding of similar contexts in hippocampal CA3 region

Y Niibori, TS Yu, JR Epp, KG Akers, SA Josselyn… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Different places may share common features, but are coded by distinct populations of CA3
neurons in the hippocampus. Here we show that chemical or genetic suppression of adult …

Parvalbumin as a sex-specific target in Alzheimer's disease research, A mini-review

DJ Terstege, JR Epp - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and both the incidence of
this disease and its associated cognitive decline disproportionally effect women. While the …

Sleep deprivation can inhibit adult hippocampal neurogenesis independent of adrenal stress hormones

…, MS Pollock, SE Lieblich, JR Epp… - American Journal …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep deprivation (SD) can suppress cell proliferation in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of
adult male rodents, suggesting that sleep may contribute to hippocampal functions by …

Manipulating a “cocaine engram” in mice

HLL Hsiang, JR Epp, MC van den Oever… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Experience with drugs of abuse (such as cocaine) produces powerful, long-lasting memories
that may be important in the development and persistence of drug addiction. The neural …

[BOOK][B] Systemic violence in education: Promise broken

JR Epp, AM Watkinson - 1997 - books.google.com
… some of us had been collecting thoughts on pedagogy and violence (Epp, chapter 2), others
… least advantaged" (Connell, 1993; also Epp and Ndunda in this book). One Canadian court …

Progesterone treatment normalizes the levels of cell proliferation and cell death in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus after traumatic brain injury

CK Barha, T Ishrat, JR Epp, LAM Galea, DG Stein - Experimental neurology, 2011 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases cell death in the hippocampus and impairs
hippocampus-dependent cognition. The hippocampus is also the site of ongoing neurogenesis …