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Caroline Menard

ResearcherPsychiatrie et de neurosciencesUniversité Laval

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Caroline Menard

Researcher

Psychiatrie et de neurosciences

Health Sciences

Université Laval

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (4 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 5 trainee awards (5 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Blood-Brain Barrier Depression Neurovascular Health Resilience Stress Sex Differences Vascular Dysfunction Transport

Latest papers

Smooth emotional response: amygdalar neurovascular coupling drives stress encoding.
Cell research · 2026 · senior author
Across Barriers: Blood-Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders.
Journal of neurochemistry · 2025 · senior author
Data-Driven Analysis Identifies Novel Modulation of Social Behavior in Female Mice Witnessing Chronic Social Defeat Stress.
Biological psychiatry · 2025

All 24 publications

Latest funding

Contribution of stress-associated neurovascular alterations in Parkinson's disease and high rates of depression
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Allostatic Load and Transdiagnostic Dimensions of Psychiatric Emergency Patients: The Signature Biobank
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$841,500
The role of blood-brain barrier transport in stress responses and depression
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$100,000

All 12 grants and awards

24 publications.

Smooth emotional response: amygdalar neurovascular coupling drives stress encoding.

Cadoret A, Binder LB, Menard C

Cell research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41422-026-01269-x PMID: 42366279

Across Barriers: Blood-Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders.

Binder LB, Menegatti Bevilacqua L, Gro Lorentzen Thomassen F, Lebel M, Jensen BAH, Menard C

Journal of neurochemistry2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jnc.70282 PMID: 41268961

Data-Driven Analysis Identifies Novel Modulation of Social Behavior in Female Mice Witnessing Chronic Social Defeat Stress.

Schuler H, Eid RS, Wu S, Tse YC, Cvetkovska V, Lopez J, Quinn R, Zhou D, Meccia J, Dion-Albert L, Bennett SN, Newman EL, Trainor BC, Peña CJ, Menard C, Bagot RC

Biological psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.11.017 PMID: 39638223

Astrocytic cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes resilience by dampening stress-induced blood-brain barrier alterations.

Dudek KA, Paton SEJ, Binder LB, Collignon A, Dion-Albert L, Cadoret A, Lebel M, Lavoie O, Bouchard J, Kaufmann FN, Clavet-Fournier V, Manca C, Guzmán M, Campbell M, Turecki G, Mechawar N, Flamand N, Lavoie-Cardinal F, Silvestri C, Di Marzo V, Menard C

Nature neuroscience2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01891-9 PMID: 40016352

Chronic Stress Exposure Alters the Gut Barrier: Sex-Specific Effects on Microbiota and Jejunum Tight Junctions.

Doney E, Dion-Albert L, Coulombe-Rozon F, Osborne N, Bernatchez R, Paton SEJ, Kaufmann FN, Agomma RO, Solano JL, Gaumond R, Dudek KA, Szyszkowicz JK, Cecile Lepage on behalf of Signature Consortium, Lebel M, Doyen A, Durand A, Lavoie-Cardinal F, Audet MC, Menard C

Biological psychiatry global open science2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.04.007 PMID: 38306213

Characterizing the blood-brain barrier and gut barrier with super-resolution imaging: opportunities and challenges.

Doney E, Bernatchez R, Clavet-Fournier V, Dudek KA, Dion-Albert L, Lavoie-Cardinal F, Menard C

Neurophotonics2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.10.4.044410 PMID: 37799760

A gut feeling: The stressed brain drives intestinal inflammation.

Solano JL, Menard C

Immunity2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.07.009 PMID: 37557079

Environmental conditions of recognition memory testing induce neurovascular changes in the hippocampus in a sex-specific manner in mice.

Cadoret A, Dion-Albert L, Amrani S, Caron L, Théberge M, Turmel A, Lebel M, Menard C

Behavioural brain research2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114443 PMID: 37088405

Neurovascular adaptations modulating cognition, mood, and stress responses.

Dion-Albert L, Dudek KA, Russo SJ, Campbell M, Menard C

Trends in neurosciences2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.01.005 PMID: 36805768

Neuromodulatory effect of interleukin 1β in the dorsal raphe nucleus on individual differences in aggression.

Takahashi A, Aleyasin H, Stavarache MA, Li L, Cathomas F, Parise LF, Lin HY, Burnett CJ, Aubry A, Flanigan ME, Brancato A, Menard C, Pfau ML, Kana V, Wang J, Hodes GE, Sasaki T, Kaplitt MG, Ogawa S, McEwen BS, Russo SJ

Molecular psychiatry2022

DOI: 10.1038/s41380-021-01110-4 PMID: 33931727

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Caroline Menard

Research

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Latest funding

Smooth emotional response: amygdalar neurovascular coupling drives stress encoding.

Across Barriers: Blood-Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders.

Data-Driven Analysis Identifies Novel Modulation of Social Behavior in Female Mice Witnessing Chronic Social Defeat Stress.

Astrocytic cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes resilience by dampening stress-induced blood-brain barrier alterations.

Chronic Stress Exposure Alters the Gut Barrier: Sex-Specific Effects on Microbiota and Jejunum Tight Junctions.

Characterizing the blood-brain barrier and gut barrier with super-resolution imaging: opportunities and challenges.

A gut feeling: The stressed brain drives intestinal inflammation.

Environmental conditions of recognition memory testing induce neurovascular changes in the hippocampus in a sex-specific manner in mice.

Neurovascular adaptations modulating cognition, mood, and stress responses.

Neuromodulatory effect of interleukin 1β in the dorsal raphe nucleus on individual differences in aggression.

Contribution of stress-associated neurovascular alterations in Parkinson's disease and high rates of depression

Allostatic Load and Transdiagnostic Dimensions of Psychiatric Emergency Patients: The Signature Biobank

The role of blood-brain barrier transport in stress responses and depression

Role of blood-brain barrier transport systems in the neurobiology of depression and resilience

Deciphering neurovascular dysfunction in stress-related disorders: translational investigation of sex-specific molecular signatures and of innovative biomarkers of major depressive disorder (MDD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Sex-specific role of pericytes in stress-induced neurovascular changes underlying depression pathogenesis and treatment response

Sex-specific role of pericytes in stress-induced neurovascular changes elicited by depression vs resilience

Chronic stress induces increased blood-brain barrier transcytosis and passage of circulating proinflammatory mediators into the brain contributing to the pathogenesis of depression

Modulation of memory encoding by the blood-brain barrier

Modulation of memory encoding by the blood-brain barrier

Frequent collaborators

Gustavo Turecki

Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Naguib Mechawar

Olivier Lavoie

Audrey Durand

Derya Sargin

Marie-Claude Audet

Judy Illes

Nicolas Flamand

Michael Meaney

Yves De Koninck

Vincenzo Di Marzo

Caroline Menard

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Smooth emotional response: amygdalar neurovascular coupling drives stress encoding.

Across Barriers: Blood-Brain and Gut Barrier Signaling in Psychiatric Disorders.

Data-Driven Analysis Identifies Novel Modulation of Social Behavior in Female Mice Witnessing Chronic Social Defeat Stress.

Astrocytic cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes resilience by dampening stress-induced blood-brain barrier alterations.

Chronic Stress Exposure Alters the Gut Barrier: Sex-Specific Effects on Microbiota and Jejunum Tight Junctions.

Characterizing the blood-brain barrier and gut barrier with super-resolution imaging: opportunities and challenges.

A gut feeling: The stressed brain drives intestinal inflammation.

Environmental conditions of recognition memory testing induce neurovascular changes in the hippocampus in a sex-specific manner in mice.

Neurovascular adaptations modulating cognition, mood, and stress responses.

Neuromodulatory effect of interleukin 1&#x3b2; in the dorsal raphe nucleus on individual differences in aggression.

Modulation of memory encoding by the blood-brain barrier

Modulation of memory encoding by the blood-brain barrier

Frequent collaborators

Gustavo Turecki

Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Naguib Mechawar

Olivier Lavoie

Audrey Durand

Derya Sargin

Marie-Claude Audet

Judy Illes

Nicolas Flamand

Michael Meaney

Yves De Koninck

Vincenzo Di Marzo

Neuromodulatory effect of interleukin 1β in the dorsal raphe nucleus on individual differences in aggression.