Recent Publications
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Grippo AJ, Akinbo OI, Amidei A, Wardwell J, Normann MC, Ciosek S, Kovalev D. Maladaptive cardiac and behavioral reactivity to repeated vicarious stress exposure in socially bonded male prairie vole siblings. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical 251: 103145, 2024. (PMC in progress)
Hopf W, Frasier RM, Starski PA, de Oliveria Sergio T, Grippo AJ. Sex differences in heart rate variability measures that predict alcohol driniking. Addiction Biology, in press. (PMC in progress).
Frasier RM, De Oliverira Sergio T, Starski PA, Grippo AJ, Hopf FW. Heart rate variability measures indicating sex differences in autonomic regulation during anxiety-like behavior in rats. Frontiers in Psychiatry 14: 1244389, 2023.
Nuccio DA, Normann MC, Zhou H, Grippo AJ, Singh P. Microbiome and metabolome variation as indicator of social stress in female prairie voles. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24: 1677, 2023. (PMC 9861106)
Akinbo OI, McNeal N, Hylin MJ, Hite N, Dagner A, Grippo AJ. The influence of environmental enrichment on affective and neural consequences of social isolation across development. Affective Science 3(4): 713-733, 2022. (PMC 9743881)
Hylin MJ, Watanasriyakul WT, Hite N, McNeal N, Grippo AJ. Morphological changes in the basolateral amygdala and behavioral disruptions associated with social isolation. Behavioral Brain Research 416: 113572, 2022. (PMC 8492539)
Venero C, Grippo AJ, Lai JCL. Editorial: endocrinology of loneliness and social isolation. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16: 978386, 2022. (PMC 9400801)
Watanasriyakul WT, Scotti ML, Carter CS, McNeal N, Colburn W, Wardwell J, Grippo AJ. Social isolation and oxytocin antagonism increase emotion-related behaviors and heart rate in female prairie voles. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical 239: 102967, 2022. (PMC 8974671)
Grippo AJ, McNeal N, Normann MC, Colburn W, Dagner A, Woodbury M. Behavioral and neuroendocrine consequences of disrupting a long-term monogamous social bond in aging prairie voles. Stress 24: 239-250, 2021. (PMC 7914264)
Normann MC, Cox M, Akinbo OI, Watanasriyakul WT, Kovalev D, Ciosek S, Miller T, Grippo AJ. Differential paraventricular nucleus activation and behavioral responses to social isolation in prairie voles following environmental enrichment with and without physical exercise. Social Neuroscience 16(4): 375-390, 2021. (PMC in progress)
Grippo AJ. Translational research from animal models. In: Chantler P, Larkin K, editors. Cardiovascular Implications of Stress and Depression. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 35-60, 2020.
Wardwell J, Watanasriyakul WT, Normann MC, Akinbo OI, McNeal N, Ciosek S, Cox M, Holzapfel N, Sujet S, Grippo AJ. Physiological and behavioral responses to observing a sibling experience a direct stressor in prairie voles. Stress 23: 444-456, 2020. (PMC 7335336)
Budnick CJ, Anderson EM, Santuzzi AM, Grippo AJ, Matuszewich L. Social anxiety and employment interviews: does nonverbal feedback differentially predict cortisol and performance? Anxiety, Stress, & Coping 32: 67-81, 2019.
Blankenship PA, Normann M, Donaldson T, Baumeister J, McNeal N, Grippo AJ, Wallace, DG. Making waves: comparing Morris water task performance in rats and prairie voles. Behavioural Brain Research, 360: 7-15, 2019.
Grippo AJ, McNeal N, Watanasriyakul WT, Cacioppo S, Scotti ML, Dagner A. Behavioral and cardiovascular consequences of disrupted oxytocin communication in cohabitating pairs of male and female prairie voles. Social Neuroscience 14: 649-662, 2019. (PMC 6669126)
Jarcho MR, McNeal N, Colburn W, Normann MC, Watanasriyakul WT, Grippo AJ. Wheel access has opposing effects on stress physiology depending on social environment in female prairie voles. Stress 22: 265-275, 2019. (PMC 6476667)
McNeal N, Watanasriyakul WT, Normann MC, Akinbo OI, Dagner A, Ihm E, Wardwell J, Grippo AJ. The negative effects of social bond disruption are partially ameliorated by sertraline administration in prairie voles. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical 219: 5-18, 2019. (PMC 6540807)
Watanasriyakul WT, Normann MC, Akinbo OI, Colburn W, Dagner A, Grippo AJ. Protective neuroendocrine effects of environmental enrichment and voluntary exercise against social isolation: evidence for mediation by limbic structures. Stress 22: 603-618, 2019. (PMC 6690777)
Grippo AJ, Scotti ML, Wardwell J, McNeal N, Bates, SL, Chandler DL, Ihm E, Jadia N. Cardiac and behavioral effects of social isolation and experimental manipulation of autonomic balance. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical 214: 1-8, 2018. (PMC 6134396)
McNeal N, Anderson EM, Moenk D, Trahanas D, Matuszewich L, Grippo AJ. Social isolation alters central nervous system monoamine content in prairie voles following acute restraint. Social Neuroscience 13: 173-183, 2018. (PMC 6092925)
Normann MC, McNeal N, Dagner A, Ihm E, Woodbury M, Grippo AJ. The influence of environmental enrichment on cardiovascular and behavioral responses to social stress. Psychosomatic Medicine 80: 271-277, 2018. (PMC in progress)
Watanasriyakul WT, Wardwell J, McNeal N, Schultz R, Woodbury M, Dagner A, Cox M, Grippo AJ. Voluntary physical exercise protects against behavioral and endocrine reactivity to social and environmental stressors in the prairie vole. Social Neuroscience 13: 602-615, 2018. (PMC 6082717)
Grippo AJ. Opinion: “heart rate variability, health, and well-being: a systems perspective” research topic. Frontiers in Public Health 5: 246, 2017. (PMC 5622597)
McNeal N, Appleton KM, Johnson AK, Scotti ML, Wardwell J, Murphy R, Bishop C, Knecht A, Grippo AJ. The protective effects of social bonding on behavioral and pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity to chronic mild stress in prairie voles. Stress 20: 175-182, 2017. (PMC 5612411)
Nalivaiko E, Carnevali L, Grippo AJ, Sgoifo A. Animal models of psychogenic cardiovascular disorders. In: Alvarenga M, Byrne D, editors. Handbook of Psychocardiology. Singapore: Springer, pp. 873-896, 2016.
Appleton KM, Grippo AJ, Beltz TG, Johnson AK. Consumption of a high n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid diet during gradual mild physiological stress in rats. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes & Essential Fatty Acids 95: 11-18, 2015. (PMC 4361260)
Cacioppo S, Grippo AJ, London S, Goossens L, Cacioppo JT. Loneliness: clinical import and interventions. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 10: 238-249, 2015. (PMC 4391342)
Grippo AJ, Moffitt JA, Henry MK, Firkins R, Senkler J, McNeal N, Wardwell J, Scotti ML, Dotson A, Schultz R. Altered connexion 43 and connexion 45 protein expression in the heart as a function of social and environmental stress in the prairie vole. Stress 18: 107-114, 2015. (PMC 4675659).
Scotti ML, Carlton ED, Demas GE, Grippo AJ. Social isolation disrupts innate immune responses in both male and female prairie voles and enhances agonistic behavior in female prairie voles. Hormones and Behavior 70: 7-13, 2015. (PMC 4409529)
Grippo AJ, Ihm E* Wardwell J, McNeal N, Scotti ML, Moenk DA, Chandler DL, LaRocca MA, Preihs K. The effects of environmental enrichment on depressive and anxiety-relevant behaviors in socially isolated prairie voles. Psychosomatic Medicine 76: 277-284, 2014. (PMC 4020982)
McNeal N, Scotti ML, Wardwell J, Chandler DL, Bates SL, LaRocca M, Trahanas DM, Grippo AJ. Disruption of social bonds induces behavioral and physiological dysregulation in male and female prairie voles. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical 180: 9-16, 2014. (PMC 3947225)
Sgoifo A, Carnevali L, Grippo AJ. The socially stressed heart: insights from studies in rodents. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 39: 51-60, 2014.
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