Stanley J Watson Jr
Ralph Waldo Gerard Professor of Neurosciences in the Department of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor
Michigan Neurosciences Institute
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Available to mentor
Stanley J Watson Jr
Research Professor
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  • Recent Publications
    • Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
    • Center Member
      Eisenberg Family Depression Center
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    • Preprint
      Resource: A Curated Database of Brain-Related Functional Gene Sets (Brain.GMT).
      Hagenauer MH, Sannah Y, Hebda-Bauer EK, Rhoads C, O'Connor AM, Watson SJ, Akil H. 2024 Apr 10; DOI:10.1101/2024.04.05.588301
      PMID: 38645214
    • Journal Article
      Multiomic profiling of transcription factor binding and function in human brain.
      Loupe JM, Anderson AG, Rizzardi LF, Rodriguez-Nunez I, Moyers B, Trausch-Lowther K, Jain R, Bunney WE, Bunney BG, Cartagena P, Sequeira A, Watson SJ, Akil H, Cooper GM, Myers RM. Nat Neurosci, 2024 Jun 3; DOI:10.1038/s41593-024-01658-8
      PMID: 38831039
    • Journal Article
      The impact of COVID-19 on a college freshman sample reveals genetic and nongenetic forms of susceptibility and resilience to stress.
      Turner CA, Khalil H, Murphy-Weinberg V, Hagenauer MH, Gates L, Tang Y, Weinberg L, Grysko R, Floran-Garduno L, Dokas T, Samaniego C, Zhao Z, Fang Y, Sen S, Lopez JF, Watson SJ, Akil H. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Dec 5; 120 (49): e2305779120 DOI:10.1073/pnas.2305779120
      PMID: 38011555
    • Journal Article
      High emotional reactivity is associated with activation of a molecularly distinct hippocampal-amygdala circuit modulated by the glucocorticoid receptor.
      Wei Q, Kumar V, Moore S, Li F, Murphy GG, Watson SJ, Akil H. Neurobiol Stress, 2023 Nov; 27: 100581 DOI:10.1016/j.ynstr.2023.100581
      PMID: 37928820
    • Journal Article
      Allele biased transcription factor binding across human brain regions gives mechanistic insight into eQTLs.
      Moyers BA, Loupe JM, Felker SA, Lawlor JMJ, Anderson AG, Rodriguez-Nunez I, Bunney WE, Bunney BG, Cartagena PM, Sequeira A, Watson SJ, Akil H, Mendenhall EM, Cooper GM, Myers RM. bioRxiv, 2023 Oct 9; DOI:10.1101/2023.10.06.561245
      PMID: 37873117
    • Journal Article
      Neurotransmission-related gene expression in the frontal pole is altered in subjects with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
      Medina AM, Hagenauer MH, Krolewski DM, Hughes E, Forrester LCT, Walsh DM, Waselus M, Richardson E, Turner CA, Sequeira PA, Cartagena PM, Thompson RC, Vawter MP, Bunney BG, Myers RM, Barchas JD, Lee FS, Schatzberg AF, Bunney WE, Akil H, Watson SJ. Transl Psychiatry, 2023 Apr 8; 13 (1): 118 DOI:10.1038/s41398-023-02418-1
      PMID: 37031222
    • Preprint
      Patterns of Neural Activation During an Initial Social Stress Encounter are Predictive of Future Susceptibility or Resilience: A FosTRAP2 Study
      Murra D, Hilde K, Khalil H, Watson S, Akil H. 2023 bioRxiv, DOI:10.1101/2023.03.10.532130
    • Journal Article
      Effect of Selective Lesions of Nucleus Accumbens µ-Opioid Receptor-Expressing Cells on Heroin Self-Administration in Male and Female Rats: A Study with Novel Oprm1-Cre Knock-in Rats.
      Bossert JM, Mejias-Aponte CA, Saunders T, Altidor L, Emery M, Fredriksson I, Batista A, Claypool SM, Caldwell KE, Reiner DJ, Chow JJ, Foltz M, Kumar V, Seasholtz A, Hughes E, Filipiak W, Harvey BK, Richie CT, Vautier F, Gomez JL, Michaelides M, Kieffer BL, Watson SJ, Akil H, Shaham Y. J Neurosci, 2023 Mar 8; 43 (10): 1692 - 1713. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2049-22.2023
      PMID: 36717230