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Latest papers
The exposome of healthy and accelerated aging across 40 countries.
Nature medicine · 2025
Bombesin stimulates dorsal raphe nucleus serotonergic neurons via a mechanism involving BB1 receptors.
General physiology and biophysics · 2025 · senior author
Cannabinoids: Revealing their complexity and role in central networks of fear and anxiety.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021 · senior author
Latest funding
- $165,000
Impact of natural biologics on the stress response: relationship between fear and appetitive brain circuits
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
54 publications.
The exposome of healthy and accelerated aging across 40 countries.
Hernandez H, Santamaria-Garcia H, Moguilner S, Farina FR, Legaz A, Prado P, Cuadros J, Gonzalez L, Gonzalez-Gomez R, Migeot J, Coronel-Oliveros C, Tagliazucchi E, Maito MA, Godoy ME, Cruzat J, Shaheen A, Farombi T, Salazar D, Da Ros LU, Borelli WV, Zimmer ER, Njamnshi AK, Bajpai S, Dey AB, Mostert C, Merali Z, Salama M, Moustafa SA, Fittipaldi S, Altschuler F, Medel V, Huepe D, Yaffe K, Momoh C, Eyre HA, Swieboda P, Lawlor B, Miranda JJ, Duran-Aniotz C, Baez S, Ibanez A
Bombesin stimulates dorsal raphe nucleus serotonergic neurons via a mechanism involving BB1 receptors.
Dremencov E, Grinchii D, Zhang X, Merali Z
Cannabinoids: Revealing their complexity and role in central networks of fear and anxiety.
Murkar A, De Koninck J, Merali Z
Extract and Active Principal of the Neotropical Vine Souroubea sympetala Gilg. Block Fear Memory Reconsolidation.
Murkar A, Cayer C, James J, Durst T, Arnason JT, Sanchez-Vindas PE, Otarola Rojas M, Merali Z
Cannabidiol and the Remainder of the Plant Extract Modulate the Effects of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol on Fear Memory Reconsolidation.
Murkar A, Kent P, Cayer C, James J, Durst T, Merali Z
Using heart rate profiles during sleep as a biomarker of depression.
Saad M, Ray LB, Bujaki B, Parvaresh A, Palamarchuk I, De Koninck J, Douglass A, Lee EK, Soucy LJ, Fogel S, Morin CM, Bastien C, Merali Z, Robillard R
Cannabis: A potential efficacious intervention for PTSD or simply snake oil?
Abizaid A, Merali Z, Anisman H
Loss of Adult 5-HT1A Autoreceptors Results in a Paradoxical Anxiogenic Response to Antidepressant Treatment.
Turcotte-Cardin V, Vahid-Ansari F, Luckhart C, Daigle M, Geddes SD, Tanaka KF, Hen R, James J, Merali Z, Béïque JC, Albert PR
Indicated Prevention Interventions in the Workplace for Depressive Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Nigatu YT, Huang J, Rao S, Gillis K, Merali Z, Wang J
Palatable Food Dampens the Long-Term Behavioral and Endocrine Effects of Juvenile Stressor Exposure but May Also Provoke Metabolic Syndrome in Rats.
Ali EF, MacKay JC, Graitson S, James JS, Cayer C, Audet MC, Kent P, Abizaid A, Merali Z
Impact of natural biologics on the stress response: relationship between fear and appetitive brain circuits
Principal investigators: Merali, Zul
Keywords: stress; fear; anxiety; psychopharmacology; ethnobotany; reward; micro dialysis; brain circuits
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Kimberly Matheson and Hymie Anisman: 43 shared papers
- Zul Merali and Hymie Anisman: 28 shared papers
- Shawn Hayley and Hymie Anisman: 20 shared papers
- Marie-Claude Audet and Hymie Anisman: 16 shared papers
- Alfonso Abizaid and Hymie Anisman: 6 shared papers
- Shawn Hayley and Zul Merali: 5 shared papers
- Alfonso Abizaid and Kimberly Matheson: 3 shared papers
- Marie-Claude Audet and Zul Merali: 3 shared papers
- Pierre Blier and Zul Merali: 2 shared papers
- Shawn Hayley and Alfonso Abizaid: 2 shared papers
- Shawn Hayley and Marie-Claude Audet: 2 shared papers
- Alfonso Abizaid and Zul Merali: 2 shared papers
- Stuart Fogel and Alan Douglass: 2 shared papers
- Stuart Fogel and Joseph De Koninck: 2 shared papers
- Alan Douglass and Joseph De Koninck: 2 shared papers
- Zul Merali and Joseph De Koninck: 2 shared papers
- Xia Zhang and Zul Merali: 1 shared paper
- Moshe Szyf and Zul Merali: 1 shared paper
- Moshe Szyf and Hymie Anisman: 1 shared paper
- Alex Wong and Marie-Claude Audet: 1 shared paper
- Alex Wong and Zul Merali: 1 shared paper
- Alex Wong and Hymie Anisman: 1 shared paper
- Andra Smith and Zul Merali: 1 shared paper
- Kimberly Matheson and Zul Merali: 1 shared paper
- Stuart Fogel and Zul Merali: 1 shared paper
- Alan Douglass and Zul Merali: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Neuroscience, Dept of
- Neuroscience
- Neurosciences and Mental Health
- Nutrition Sciences
- Neuroscience, Institute of
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Hymie Anisman
Neuroscience
28 shared papers, latest 2019
Shawn Hayley
Neurosciences and Mental Health
5 shared papers, latest 2015
Marie-Claude Audet
Nutrition Sciences
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Joseph De Koninck
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Alfonso Abizaid
Neuroscience, Institute of
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Pierre Blier
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2016
Alex Wong
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Xia Zhang
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Andra Smith
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Kimberly Matheson
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Stuart Fogel
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Alan Douglass
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Moshe Szyf
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
1 shared papers, latest 2008
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