The impact of acute stress physiology on skilled motor performance: Implications for policing

GS Anderson, PM Di Nota, GAS Metz… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Investigations of police performance during acutely stressful situations have primarily
focused on higher-order cognitive processes like attention, affect or emotion and decision …

Beyond the genome—Towards an epigenetic understanding of handedness ontogenesis

J Schmitz, GAS Metz, O Güntürkün… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hemispheric asymmetries represent one of the major organizational principles in vertebrate
neurobiology, but their molecular determinants are not well understood. For handedness …

Transgenerational effects of early environmental insults on aging and disease incidence

M Ambeskovic, TJ Roseboom, GAS Metz - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
Adverse early life experiences are major influences on developmental trajectories with
potentially life-long consequences. Prenatal or early postnatal exposure to stress …

Paw preferences in mice and rats: Meta-analysis

M Manns, Y El Basbasse, N Freund… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Mice and rats are among the most common animal model species in both basic and clinical
neuroscience. Despite their ubiquity as model species, many clinically relevant brain …

Why and how the early-life environment affects development of coping behaviours

MR Langenhof, J Komdeur - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2018 - Springer
Understanding the ways in which individuals cope with threats, respond to challenges, make
use of opportunities and mediate the harmful effects of their surroundings is important for …

Lineage-and sex-dependent behavioral and biochemical transgenerational consequences of developmental exposure to lead, prenatal stress, and combined lead …

M Sobolewski, K Abston, K Conrad… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Lead (Pb) exposure and prenatal stress (PS) during development are co-
occurring risk factors with shared biological substrates. PS has been associated with …

Experience-induced transgenerational (re-) programming of neuronal structure and functions: impact of stress prior and during pregnancy

K Braun, J Bock, T Wainstock, E Matas… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the inter-and transgenerational effects of stress experience prior to
and during gestation. We provide an overview of findings from studies in humans as well as …

Building an asymmetrical brain: The molecular perspective

J Schmitz, O Güntürkün, S Ocklenburg - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The brain is one of the most prominent examples for structural and functional differences
between the left and right half of the body. For handedness and language lateralization, the …

Stress transgenerationally programs metabolic pathways linked to altered mental health

D Kiss, M Ambeskovic, T Montina, GAS Metz - Cellular and molecular life …, 2016 - Springer
Stress is among the primary causes of mental health disorders, which are the most common
reason for disability worldwide. The ubiquity of these disorders, and the costs associated …

Limb preference in animals: new insights into the evolution of manual laterality in hominids

G Boulinguez-Ambroise, J Aychet, E Pouydebat - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Until the 1990s, the notion of brain lateralization—the division of labor between the two
hemispheres—and its more visible behavioral manifestation, handedness, remained fiercely …