Publications


Alterations of microRNAs across human and mouse limbic brain areas: molecular mechanisms and biological processes involved in major depressive disorder


S. Saleri, M. Marizzoni, Patrizia Genini, Chiara Galbiati, Annamaria Cattaneo, G. Turecki, H. Grosskopf, P. Steinacker, M. Otto, Giulia Poggi, Christopher R. Pryce, N. Mechawar, N. Cattane

Neurobiology of Stress, 2026


Epigenetic mechanisms affected by stress during adolescence and the increased risk for depression later in life: a systematic review


Giulia Poggi, G. Treccani, Patrizia Genini, Marta Da Pian, Annamaria Cattaneo, N. Cattane

Molecular Psychiatry, 2026


Glucocorticoid receptors in oligodendrocyte precursor cells regulate hippocampal network plasticity and stress-induced behavior in mice


Lorenzo Mattioni, Giulia Poggi, Celine Gallagher, Katrin Becker, Linh Le, Maja Papic, Jasmin Engbers, Maija-Kreetta Koskinen, Ali Abdollahzadeh, David P. Herzog, Leonardo Nardi, Andrea Conrad, Sarah Winterberg, Christa Merte-Grebe, Liana Melo-Thomas, Hyonseung Lee, Hans Schwarzbach, Jennifer Klüpfel, Ralf Kinscherf, Jan Engelmann, Beat Lutz, Ari Waisman, Iiris Hovatta, Thomas Mittmann, Michael J. Schmeisser, Marianne B. Müller, Giulia Treccani

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 123, 2026, pp. e2614867123


Glucocorticoid receptors in oligodendrocyte precursor cells regulate hippocampal network plasticity and stress-induced behavior in mice


Lorenzo Mattioni, Giulia Poggi, Celine Gallagher, Katrin Becker, Linh Le, Maja Papic, Jasmin Engbers, Maija-Kreetta Koskinen, Ali Abdollahzadeh, David P. Herzog, Leonardo Nardi, Andrea Conrad, Sarah Winterberg, Christa Merte-Grebe, Liana Melo-Thomas, Hyonseung Lee, Hans Schwarzbach, Jennifer Klüpfel, Ralf Kinscherf, Jan Engelmann, Beat Lutz, Ari Waisman, Iiris Hovatta, Thomas Mittmann, Michael J. Schmeisser, Marianne B. Müller, Giulia Treccani

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 123, 2026, pp. e2614867123


Canonical and non-canonical roles of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in mental disorders


Giulia Poggi, Giulia Treccani, Martina von der Bey, A. Tanti, M. Schmeisser, M. Müller

npj Mental Health Research, 2025


Chronic social stress induces generalized hyper-sensitivity to aversion: A mouse model with translational validity for understanding and treating negative valence disorders.


Giulia Poggi, Adrián Portalés, Mélisse Robert, Céline Hofer, Sophie Schmid, D. Kúkeľová, H. Sigrist, Stefan Just, B. Hengerer, Christopher R. Pryce

Neuropharmacology, 2025


Evidence for reduced synaptic protein SNAP-25 in cerebrospinal fluid in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia


P. Steinacker, L. Werner, Alexander Tarabuko, Ilyas Al-Ali, Naguib Mechawar, Christopher R. Pryce, N. Cattane, Giulia Poggi, M. R. Al Shweiki, Heiko Graf, H. Grosskopf, S. Halbgebauer, P. Oeckl, Lorenzo Barba, Laura Meier, Samir Abu-Rumeileh, Hugh Marston, K. D. Bornemann, B. Hengerer, Karin M. Danzer, C. Schönfeldt-Lecuona, M. Otto

BMJ Mental Health, 2025


TRP canonical 4 and/or 5 channel inhibition reduces aversion‐ and increases reward‐responding in chronically stressed mice


Giulia Poggi, Deniz Queisser, Alena Senn, H. Sigrist, D. Kúkeľová, L. Madur, Nagiua Cuomo-Haymour, Mélisse Robert, Sophie Schmid, Adrián Portalés, S. Simard, Naguib Mechawar, B. Hengerer, Stefan Just, Christopher R. Pryce

British Journal of Pharmacology, 2025


Engagement of basal amygdala‐nucleus accumbens glutamate neurons in the processing of rewarding or aversive social stimuli


Giulia Poggi, Giorgio Bergamini, R. Dulinskas, L. Madur, Alexandra Greter, Christian Ineichen, A. D'Agostino, D. Kúkeľová, H. Sigrist, K. D. Bornemann, B. Hengerer, Christopher R. Pryce

European Journal of Neuroscience, 2024


NG2-glia: rising stars in stress-related mental disorders?


G. Poggi, Malin Wennstr{\"o}m, M. B. M{\"u}ller, G. Treccani

Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 28, 2023, pp. 518--520


Stress deficits in reward behaviour are associated with and replicated by dysregulated amygdala-nucleus accumbens pathway function in mice


L. Madur, Christian Ineichen, G. Bergamini, Alexandra Greter, G. Poggi, Nagiua Cuomo-Haymour, H. Sigrist, Yaroslav Sych, J. Paterna, K. Bornemann, C. Viollet, Francesc Fernández-Albert, Gregorio Alanis-Lobato, B. Hengerer, C. Pryce

Communications Biology, 2023


Somatostatin Receptor 4 Agonism Normalizes Stress-Related Excessive Amygdala Glutamate Release and Pavlovian Aversion Learning and Memory in Rodents.


Irina Adamcyzk, Diana K{\'u}ke{\v l}ov{\'a}, Stefan Just, Ricardo Giovannini, Hannes Sigrist, Rene Amport, Nagiua Cuomo-Haymour, Giulia Poggi, Christopher R Pryce

Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci, vol. 2, Translational Medicine \& Clinical Pharmacology, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Biberach, Germany., 2022 Oct, pp. 470--479


Effects of chronic social stress on oligodendrocyte proliferation-maturation and myelin status in prefrontal cortex and amygdala in adult mice.


Giulia Poggi, Jamie Albiez, Christopher R Pryce

Neurobiol Stress, vol. 18, Preclinical Laboratory for Translational Research Into Affective Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland., 2022 May, p. 100451


Hypersocial behavior and biological redundancy in mice with reduced expression of PSD95 or PSD93


D. Winkler, F. Daher, L. Wüstefeld, K. Hammerschmidt, G. Poggi, Anna Seelbach, Dilja Krueger-Burg, behnam vafadari, Anja Ronnenberg, Yanling Liu, L. Kaczmarek, O. Schlüter, H. Ehrenreich, E. Dere

Behavioural Brain Research, 2017


Cortical network dysfunction caused by a subtle defect of myelination.


Giulia Poggi, Susann Boretius, Wiebke M{\"o}bius, Nicole Moschny, J{\"u}rgen Baudewig, Torben Ruhwedel, Imam Hassouna, Georg L Wieser, Hauke B Werner, Sandra Goebbels, Klaus-Armin Nave, Hannelore Ehrenreich

Glia, vol. 64, Clinical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, G{\"o}ttingen., 2016 Nov, pp. 2025--2040


The brain as immunoprecipitator of serum autoantibodies against N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit NR1.


Esther Castillo-Gomez, Anne K{\"a}stner, Johann Steiner, Anja Schneider, Bilke Hettling, Giulia Poggi, Kristin Ostehr, Manfred Uhr, Abdul R Asif, Mike Matzke, Ulrike Schmidt, Viktoria Pfander, Christian Hammer, Thomas F Schulz, Lutz Binder, Winfried St{\"o}cker, Frank Weber, Hannelore Ehrenreich

Ann Neurol, vol. 79, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, G{\"o}ttingen., 2016 Jan, pp. 144--151


Gpm6b deficiency impairs sensorimotor gating and modulates the behavioral response to a 5-HT2A/C receptor agonist.


E. Dere, D. Winkler, Caroline Ritter, Anja Ronnenberg, G. Poggi, J. Patzig, M. Gernert, C. Müller, K. Nave, H. Ehrenreich, H. Werner

Behavioural Brain Research, 2015


The brain as immunoprecipitator of serum autoantibodies against N‐Methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor subunit NR1


E. Castillo-Gómez, Anne Kästner, J. Steiner, Anja Schneider, Bilke Hettling, G. Poggi, Kristin Ostehr, M. Uhr, Abdul R. Asif, M. Matzke, U. Schmidt, Viktoria Pfander, C. Hammer, Thomas F Schulz, L. Binder, W. Stöcker, F. Weber, H. Ehrenreich

Annals of Neurology, 2015


Accumulated common variants in the broader fragile X gene family modulate autistic phenotypes.


Beata Stepniak, Anne K{\"a}stner, Giulia Poggi, Marina Mitjans, Martin Begemann, Annette Hartmann, Sandra Van der Auwera, Farahnaz Sananbenesi, Dilja Krueger-Burg, Gabriela Matuszko, Cornelia Brosi, Georg Homuth, Henry V{\"o}lzke, Fritz Benseler, Claudia Bagni, Utz Fischer, Alexander Dityatev, Hans-J{\"o}rgen Grabe, Dan Rujescu, Andre Fischer, Hannelore Ehrenreich

EMBO Mol Med, vol. 7, Clinical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, G{\"o}ttingen, Germany., 2015 Dec, pp. 1565--1579


Fast cerebellar reflex circuitry requires synaptic vesicle priming by munc13-3.


Pallavi Rao Netrakanti, Benjamin H Cooper, Ekrem Dere, Giulia Poggi, Daniela Winkler, Nils Brose, Hannelore Ehrenreich

Cerebellum, vol. 14, Clinical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, G{\"o}ttingen, Germany., 2015 Jun, pp. 264--283