Professor Hans Reul

Research summary

My research group investigates how the organism responds and adapts to stressful events.

Major research interests are:

1. The signalling, epigenetic and genomic mechanisms in the brain underlying stress-related learning and memory processes.

2. The regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis under baseline and stress conditions.

3. The physiological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of voluntary exercise on stress coping, HPA axis regulation, and anxiety-related and cognitive behaviour.

Expertise

My research group investigates how the organism responds and adapts to stressful events. The emphasis is on how we learn and form memories of emotionally stressful events in our lives so we ...

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Recent publications

• Reul, JMHM 2014, ‘Making memories of stressful events: a journey along epigenetic, gene transcription, and signaling pathways’. Frontiers in psychiatry, vol 5., pp. 5
• Kersanté, F, Rowley, SCS, Pavlov, I, Mecinas, MG, Semyanov, A, Reul, JMHM, Walker, MC & Linthorst, ACE 2013, ‘A functional role for both GABA transporter-1 and GABA transporter-3 in the modulation of extracellular GABA and GABAergic tonic conductances in the rat hippocampus’. The Journal of Physiology, vol 591., pp. 2429-2441

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