Natalina Salmaso, Carleton University

Research

Crc Brain Estrogen Glia Mood Disorder Plasticity Stress

Latest papers

Sex differences in placebo and antidepressant response to intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression.
Molecular psychiatry · 2026
Orchestrating Neural Development Through mRNA Translation Regulation.
Journal of neurochemistry · 2025
Development of a simplified smell test to identify Parkinson's disease using multiple cohorts, machine learning and item response theory.
NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025

All 20 publications

Latest funding

Identifying the molecular determinants of ketamine's antidepressant action
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$929,476
Sex Differences in Astroglial Cells in Telencephalic Development and Plasticity
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$96,000
Astroglial estrogen receptor alpha as a mediator of neuroplasticity and stress-induced depressive behaviours
CIHR · 2021 · Nominated PI
$875,926

All 7 grants and awards

20 publications.

01

Sex differences in placebo and antidepressant response to intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression.

Huc M, Siddiqi S, Myers M, Colman I, Salmaso N, Jaworska N, Aguilar-Valles A

Molecular psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41380-026-03493-8 PMID: 41708888

02

Orchestrating Neural Development Through mRNA Translation Regulation.

Rodrigue B, Sajish M, Salmaso N, Aguilar-Valles A

Journal of neurochemistry2025

DOI: 10.1111/jnc.70128 PMID: 40509688

03

Development of a simplified smell test to identify Parkinson's disease using multiple cohorts, machine learning and item response theory.

Li J, Grimes K, Saade J, Tomlinson JJ, Mestre TA, Schade S, Weber S, Dakna M, Wicke T, Lang E, Trenkwalder C, Salmaso N, Frank A, Ramsay T, Manuel D, aSCENT-PD Investigators, Mollenhauer B, Schlossmacher MG

NPJ Parkinson's disease2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41531-025-00904-5 PMID: 40268961

04

Emerging autism and Fragile X syndrome treatments.

Parkhill M, Salmaso N, D'Angiulli A, Lee V, Aguilar-Valles A

Trends in pharmacological sciences2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2025.02.004 PMID: 40102109

05

Race and ethnicity matter! Moving Parkinson's risk research towards diversity and inclusiveness.

Siddiqi S, Ortiz Z, Simard S, Li J, Lawrence K, Redmond M, Tomlinson JJ, Schlossmacher MG, Salmaso N

NPJ Parkinson's disease2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41531-025-00891-7 PMID: 40050644

06

An integrative view on the cell-type-specific mechanisms of ketamine's antidepressant actions.

Lewis V, Rurak G, Salmaso N, Aguilar-Valles A

Trends in neurosciences2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.12.004 PMID: 38220554

07

Astroglial Hmgb1 regulates postnatal astrocyte morphogenesis and cerebrovascular maturation.

Freitas-Andrade M, Comin CH, Van Dyken P, Ouellette J, Raman-Nair J, Blakeley N, Liu QY, Leclerc S, Pan Y, Liu Z, Carrier M, Thakur K, Savard A, Rurak GM, Tremblay MÈ, Salmaso N, da F Costa L, Coppola G, Lacoste B

Nature communications2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40682-3 PMID: 37587100

08

Maternal FGF2 levels associated with child anxiety and depression symptoms through child FGF2 levels.

Lebowitz ER, Marin CE, Orbach M, Salmaso N, Vaccarino FM, Silverman WK

Journal of affective disorders2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.090 PMID: 36717031

09

Sex differences in developmental patterns of neocortical astroglia: A mouse translatome database.

Rurak GM, Simard S, Freitas-Andrade M, Lacoste B, Charih F, Van Geel A, Stead J, Woodside B, Green JR, Coppola G, Salmaso N

Cell reports2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110310 PMID: 35108542

10

Differential expression of GluN2 NMDA receptor subunits in the dorsal horn of male and female rats.

Temi S, Rudyk C, Armstrong J, Landrigan JA, Dedek C, Salmaso N, Hildebrand ME

Channels (Austin, Tex.)2021

DOI: 10.1080/19336950.2020.1871205 PMID: 33509021

Identifying the molecular determinants of ketamine's antidepressant action

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Aguilar Valles, Argel

Keywords: Chronic Stress; Dendritogenesis; Enantiomers; Interneurons; Mrna Translation; Nmda Receptor; Opioid Receptors; Ribotag; Synaptic Plasticity; Synaptogenesis

$929,476