Recent Research Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., & Hodgson, D. M. (2010). Neonatal lipopolysaccharide exposure alters central cytokine responses to stress in adulthood in Wistar rats. Stress. DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2010.489977.

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., Byrne, R. J., Naicker, S., Tynan, R. J., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2009). Neonatal lipopolysaccharide and adult stress exposure predisposes rats to anxiety-like behaviour and blunted corticosterone responses: Implications for the double-hit hypothesis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 1515-1525.

Nakamura, T., Walker, A. K., & Hodgson, D. M. (2007). Perinatal programming. The Journal of Complementary Medicine, 6, 51-56.

Hodgson, D. M., Nakamura, T., & Walker, A. K. (2007). Prophylactic role for complementary and alternative medicine in perinatal programming of adult health, Forschende Komplementärmedizin, 14, 92-101.

Abstracts published in conference proceedings

Sominsky L., Walker A.K., Walker F.R., Hodgson D.M. (2010) Postnatal bacterial exposure produces transgenerational inheritance of anxiety-like behaviour: Role of microglial activation and histone acetylation. the 5th Australian Health & Medical Research Congress, Melbourne, Australia

Walker, A.K., Hiles, S.A., Sominsky, L., McLaughlin, E.A., Hodgson, D.M. Postnatal bacterial exposure alters gonadal hormones, testicular morphology and age of puberty onset in rats. the 5th Australian Health & Medical Research Congress, Melbourne, Australia

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Fulham, W. R., Hunter, M., Budd, T. W., Schall, U., Kemp, A. J., Cooper, G., Todd, J., & Hodgson, D. M. (2010). Auditory evoked potentials in the rat and the "two-hit" hypothesis of schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Fulham, W. R., Hunter, M., Budd, T. W., Schall, U., Kemp, A. J., Cooper, G., Todd, J., & Hodgson, D. M. (2010). Mismatch negativity and other auditory evoked potentials in a rodent model of schizophrenia. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 41, 113.

Nakamura, T., & Hodgson, D. M. (2009). Prenatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide alters febrile response to bacteria in adult wistar rats. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 23, S50.

Nakamura, T., Walker, A. K., Mitchison, D., & Hodgson, D. M. (2009). Neonatal lipopolysaccharide exposure attenuates the adult febrile response in male but not female Wistar rats. Poster presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Canberra, Australia.

Walker, A. K., James, M. H., Nakamura, T., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2009). Neonatal lipopolysaccharide exposure produces long-term alterations to neuroimmune and neuroendocrine functioning in the rodent. Poster presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Canberra, Australia.

Nakamura T, Walker, A. K., & Hodgson, D. M. (2008). Long-term alterations in neuroimmune and neuroendocrine responses following neonatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide in Wistar rats. Brain Behaviour and Immunity, 22, 20.

Nakamura, T, Walker, A. K., & Hodgson, D. M. (2008). Long-term alterations in neuroimmune responses after neonatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide. Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, 18, 45.

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., & Hodgson, D. M. (2008). Neonatal infection predisposes toward an anxiogenic profile in adulthood: The two-hit hypothesis of psychopathology. Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, 18, 109.

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., & Hodgson, D. M. (2008). Neonatal lipopolysaccharide exposure alters neonatal and adulthood neuroendocrine functioning, sexual maturation and blood composition in the rodent. Brain Behaviour and Immunity, 22, 10.

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., & Hodgson, D. M. (2008). The double-hit hypothesis of psychopathology: Neonatal lipopolysaccharide exposure predisposes male but not female rodents to anxiety-like behaviour following stress in adulthood. Brain Behaviour and Immunity, 22, 11.

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., Byrne, R. J., Naicker, S., Tynan, R., & Hodgson, D. M. (2007). The two-hit hypothesis of psychopathology: Implications of early life immune activation on adulthood anxiety in a rodent model. Early Human Development, 83, 1.

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2007). Impact of early life endotoxin exposure on adulthood anxiety-like behaviour in the rodent. Brain Behaviour and Immunity, 21, 180.

Unpublished conference presentations

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Fulham, W. R., Hunter, M., Budd, T. W., Todd, J., Schall, U., & Hodgson, D. M. (2010). Auditory event-related potentials in the rat: Mismatch negativity and N1 rocovery studies. Poster presented at the 11th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference. Sydney, Australia.

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Fulham, W. R., Hunter, M., Budd, T. W., Todd, J., Schall, U., & Hodgson, D. M. (2010). Mismatch Negativity and N1 Recovery Studies in the rodent: A model for schizophrenia. Poster presented at the Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Conference. Newcastle, Australia.

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Fulham, W. R., Hunter, M., Budd, T. W., Schall, U., & Hodgson, D. M. (2010). "Two-hit" hypothesis of schizophrenia and the auditory evoked potentials in the rat. Paper presented at the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology. Melbourne, Australia.

Michie, P. T., Nakamura, T., Hodgson, D. M., Hunter, M., Fulham, W. R., Todd, J., Budd, T. W., Schall, U., Cooper, G., Kemp, A. J. (2009). Mismatch negativity (MMN) in a rodent model of schizophrenia. Paper presented at the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Conference. Canberra.

Nakamura, T., Walker, A. K., Mitchison, D., & Hodgson, D. M. (2008). Long-term alterations in neuroimmune responses after neonatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide. Poster presented at the meeting of the 4th Australian Health and Medical Research Congress, Brisbane, Australia.

Walker, A. K., James, M. H., Nakamura, T., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2008) Impact of early life bacterial exposure on long-term neuroimmune and neuroendocrine mechanisms in the rodent. Poster presented at the meeting of the 4th Australian Health and Medical Research Congress, Brisbane, Australia.

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Budd, T. W., Paton, B., Walker, A. K., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2007). Deviance-related electrophysiological activity in rats. Poster presented at the meeting of the School of Psychology Postgraduate Conference, The University of Newcastle, Sydney, Australia.

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Budd, T. W., Walker, A. K., Paton, B., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2007). Perinatal programming of infection on schizophrenia-like behaviour in rats: Research plan. Poster presented at the meeting of the 5th International Congress on Developmental Origins of Health & Disease, Perth, Australia.

Walker, A. K., Nakamura, T., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2007) Impact of neonatal endotoxin exposure on later life anxiety-like behaviour in rodents. Paper presented at the meeting of the Fetal Physiology Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.

Conference presentation accepted

Nakamura, T., Michie, P. T., Fulham, W. R., Schall, U., Budd, T. W., Todd, J., Hunter, M., & Hodgson, D. M. (2010). Progress in developing rodent analogues of intermediate phenotypes of schizophrenia. Abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Conference "Glial-Neuronal Networks in Neuropsychiatry". Sydney, Australia.