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Jay Weiss PhD/MD

  • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
    Professor
  • (404) 712-9772
  • jweis01@emory.edu

Academic Appointment

  • Temporary Graduate Faculty, Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center
  • Jenny Culbreth Adams Professor, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Jenny Culbreth Adams Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University

Education

Degrees

  • BA from Lafayette College
  • PhD Clinical Psychology and Experimental/Physiological Psychology from Yale University

Research

Publications

  • A role for B cells in facilitating defense against an NK cell-sensitive lung metastatic tumor is revealed by stress.
    J Neuroimmunol Volume: 313 Page(s): 99 - 108
    12/15/2017 Authors: Jones HP; Aldridge B; Boss-Williams K; Weiss JM
  • Reprint of: Locus coeruleus neuronal activity determines proclivity to consume alcohol in a selectively-bred line of rats that readily consumes alcohol.
    Alcohol Volume: 50 Page(s): 91 - 105
    02/01/2016 Authors: West CHK; Boss-Williams KA; Ritchie JC; Weiss JM
  • Locus coeruleus neuronal activity determines proclivity to consume alcohol in a selectively-bred line of rats that readily consumes alcohol.
    Alcohol Volume: 49 Page(s): 691 - 705
    11/01/2015 Authors: West CHK; Boss-Williams KA; Ritchie JC; Weiss JM
  • Antidepressant and anticonvulsant effects of exercise in a rat model of epilepsy and depression comorbidity.
    Epilepsy Behav Volume: 29 Page(s): 47 - 52
    10/01/2013 Authors: Epps SA; Kahn AB; Holmes PV; Boss-Williams KA; Weiss JM; Weinshenker D
  • Sex and lineage interact to predict behavioral effects of chronic adolescent stress in rats.
    Behav Brain Res Volume: 248 Page(s): 57 - 61
    07/01/2013 Authors: Harrell CS; Hardy E; Boss-Williams K; Weiss JM; Neigh GN
  • Prenatal exposure to escitalopram and/or stress in rats: a prenatal stress model of maternal depression and its treatment.
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) Volume: 228 Page(s): 231 - 241
    07/01/2013 Authors: Bourke CH; Capello CF; Rogers SM; Yu ML; Boss-Williams KA; Weiss JM; Stowe ZN; Owens MJ
  • Operant psychostimulant self-administration in a rat model of depression.
    Pharmacol Biochem Behav Volume: 103 Page(s): 380 - 385
    12/01/2012 Authors: Lin SJ; Epps SA; West CH; Boss-Williams KA; Weiss JM; Weinshenker D
  • Influence of chronic administration of antidepressant drugs on mRNA for galanin, galanin receptors, and tyrosine hydroxylase in catecholaminergic and serotonergic cell-body regions in rat brain.
    Neuropeptides Volume: 46 Page(s): 81 - 91
    04/01/2012 Authors: Rovin ML; Boss-Williams KA; Alisch RS; Ritchie JC; Weinshenker D; West CHK; Weiss JM
  • Several stressors fail to reduce adult hippocampal neurogenesis.
    Psychoneuroendocrinology Volume: 36 Page(s): 1520 - 1529
    11/01/2011 Authors: Hanson ND; Owens MJ; Boss-Williams KA; Weiss JM; Nemeroff CB
  • Effects of chronic antidepressant drug administration and electroconvulsive shock on activity of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmentum.
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol Volume: 14 Page(s): 201 - 210
    03/01/2011 Authors: West CHK; Weiss JM
  • Addendum: Paroxetine-induced increase in activity of locus coeruleus neurons in adolescent rats: implication of a countertherapeutic effect of an antidepressant.
    Neuropsychopharmacology Volume: 35 Page(s): 1836 - 1837
    07/01/2010 Authors: West CHK; Ritchie JC; Weiss JM
  • Antidepressant drugs with differing pharmacological actions decrease activity of locus coeruleus neurons.
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol Volume: 12 Page(s): 627 - 641
    06/01/2009 Authors: West CHK; Ritchie JC; Boss-Williams KA; Weiss JM
  • Rats selectively-bred for behavior related to affective disorders: proclivity for intake of alcohol and drugs of abuse, and measures of brain monoamines.
    Biochem Pharmacol Volume: 75 Page(s): 134 - 159
    01/01/2008 Authors: Weiss JM; West CHK; Emery MS; Bonsall RW; Moore JP; Boss-Williams KA
  • Testing the hypothesis that locus coeruleus hyperactivity produces depression-related changes via galanin.
    Neuropeptides Volume: 39 Page(s): 281 - 287
    06/01/2005 Authors: Weiss JM; Boss-Williams KA; Moore JP; Demetrikopoulos MK; Ritchie JC; West CHK
  • Galanin: a significant role in depression?
    Ann N Y Acad Sci Volume: 863 Page(s): 364 - 382
    12/21/1998 Authors: Weiss JM; Bonsall RW; Demetrikopoulos MK; Emery MS; West CH
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