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

• Carter, S, Mifsud, K & Reul, H, 2017, ‘Acute stress enhances epigenetic modifications but does not affect the constitutive binding of pCREB to Immediate-early gene promoters in the rat hippocampus’. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, vol 10.
• Trollope, A, Mifsud, K, Saunderson, E & Reul, JMHM, 2017, ‘Molecular and Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Cognitive and Adaptive Responses to Stress’. Epigenomes.

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