Stanley J Watson Jr

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Ralph Waldo Gerard Professor of Neurosciences in the Department of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor
Michigan Neurosciences Institute
Medical School
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Stanley J Watson Jr
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      Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
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      Eisenberg Family Depression Center

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    • Preprint
      Significantly Improved Mouse and Rat Genome Annotation Using Sequence Read Archive RNA-seq Data
      Meng F, Turner D, Hagenauer MH, Watson S, Akil H. 2026 Mar 12; bioRxiv, DOI:10.64898/2026.03.06.709975
    • Journal Article
      A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Chronic Stress on the Prefrontal Transcriptome in Animal Models and Convergence With Existing Human Data
      Xiong J, Hagenauer MH, Rhoads CA, Flandreau E, Rempel-Clower N, Hernandez E, Nguyen DM, Saffron A, Duan T, Watson S, Akil H. Brain and Behavior, 2026 Jan 1; 16 (1): DOI:10.1002/brb3.71197
      PMID: 41566898
    • Journal Article
      Correction: Bioenergetic-related gene expression in the hippocampus predicts internalizing vs. externalizing behavior in an animal model of temperament (Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, (2025), 18, (1469467), 10.3389/fnmol.2025.1469467)
      Hebda-Bauer EK, Hagenauer MH, Munro DB, Blandino P, Meng F, Arakawa K, Stead JDH, Chitre AS, Ozel AB, Mohammadi P, Watson SJ, Flagel SB, Li J, Palmer AA, Akil H. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2026 Jan 1; 19: DOI:10.3389/fnmol.2026.1784625
    • Preprint
      A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Chronic Stress on the Prefrontal Transcriptome in Animal Models and Convergence with Existing Human Data
      Xiong J, Hagenauer MH, Rhoads CA, Flandreau EI, Rempel-Clower NL, Hernandez E, Nguyen DM, Saffron A, Duan TQ, Watson S, Akil H. 2025 Oct 24; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, DOI:10.1101/2025.10.23.683091
    • Journal Article
      A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Rodent Models.
      Rhoads CA, Hagenauer MH, Xiong J, Hernandez E, Nguyen DM, Saffron A, Flandreau E, Watson Jr S, Akil H. J Sleep Res, 2025 Oct 9; e70205 - e70205. DOI:10.1111/jsr.70205
    • Preprint
      Short Report: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Animal Models
      Rhoads C, Hagenauer M, Xiong J, Hernandez E, Nguyen DM, Saffron A, Flandreau E, Watson Jr S, Akil H. 2025 Apr 29; DOI:10.1101/2025.04.21.648791
    • Journal Article
      The Effects of Antidepressants on the Hippocampus: A Meta-Analysis of Public Transcriptional Profiling Data
      Geoghegan E, Hagenauer M, Hernandez E, Espinoza S, Flandreau E, Nguyen P, Bhuiyan M, Mensch S, Watson Jr S, Akil H, Hen R. bioRxiv, 2025 Apr 29; DOI:10.1101/2025.04.21.648805
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      A meta-analysis of the effects of early life stress on the prefrontal cortex transcriptome suggests long-term effects on myelin
      Duan TQ, Hagenauer M, Nguyen DM, Bader A, Flandreau EI, Maras PM, De Lima RMS, Meaney MJ, Watson Jr SJ, Akil H. 2024 Oct 5;

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