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Kathryn Commons

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
Verified email at childrens.harvard.edu
Cited by 4296

The rodent forced swim test measures stress-coping strategy, not depression-like behavior

KG Commons, AB Cholanians, JA Babb… - ACS chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The forced swim test (FST) measures coping strategy to an acute inescapable stress and
thus provides unique insight into the neural limb of the stress response. Stress, particularly …

Embracing diversity in the 5-HT neuronal system

BW Okaty, KG Commons, SM Dymecki - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
… Thus, cells derived from a common progenitor pool and temporal window are hypothetically
more likely to serve similar circuit functions than cells derived from more distantly related …

Peptides that fine-tune the serotonin system

RJ Valentino, KG Commons - Neuropeptides, 2005 - Elsevier
… dorsomedial DR also contain immunolabeling for glutamate (Commons and Valentino, 2002).
This … This may be a common denominator underlying overlapping clinical effects of these …

[HTML][HTML] A neurochemically distinct dorsal raphe-limbic circuit with a potential role in affective disorders

KG Commons, KR Connolley… - …, 2003 - nature.com
The serotonergic system arising from the dorsal raphe nucleus (DR) has long been implicated
in psychiatric disorders, and is considered one site of action of classical anxiolytic and …

Circuitry underlying regulation of the serotonergic system by swim stress

M Roche, KG Commons, A Peoples… - Journal of …, 2003 - Soc Neuroscience
… plasticity that underlies the behavioral change is a common target of antidepressant agents.
… to antidepressant treatments is a common feature of multiple experimental strategies that …

Projections and interconnections of genetically defined serotonin neurons in mice

…, SM Dymecki, KG Commons - European Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… It may be the case that these convergent axons release serotonin to have functionally
common effects. Supporting this possibility, stimulation of either the DR or the MR, which both …

The bright sharc survey: the cluster catalog

…, AJ Metevier, RG Kron, K Commons - The Astrophysical …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the Bright SHARC (Serendipitous High-Redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster) Survey,
which is an objective search for serendipitously detected extended X-ray sources in 460 …

Morphine-enhanced apoptosis in selective brain regions of neonatal rats

D Bajic, KG Commons, SG Soriano - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
… 5B), which is in contrast to the striking astrocytic activation observed in adult rats (Bajic and
Commons, unpublished observations). Since astrocytic activation is closely linked to its role …

[HTML][HTML] Male-specific deficits in natural reward learning in a mouse model of neurodevelopmental disorders

…, WT O'Brien, E Mahrt, S Siegel, K Commons… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
… in striatal circuits may form a common deleterious mechanism in … and reward is a common
cognitive phenotype in multiple … appears to be a common mechanism contributing to the …

Glutamatergic drive of the dorsal raphe nucleus

M Soiza-Reilly, KG Commons - Journal of chemical neuroanatomy, 2011 - Elsevier
… The more common association of VGLUT1 than VGLUT2 with dendritic spines would raise
the possibility that there could be differences in the mechanisms of plasticity at each of these …