Sonia Cavigelli

Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health

Health and Human Dev East
University Park,
sac34@psu.edu
814-863-0210

Research Summary

Development of temperament/personality; relationship of temperament and social status to stress and health; individual differences in stress and health in the natural environment.

Huck Affiliations

Neuroscience

Neuroscience Institute

Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition

Publication Tags

Glucocorticoids Anxiety Health Corticosterone Therapeutics Asthma Ethanol Lizards Adrenal Cortex Hormones Alcohols History Innate Immunity Animals Individuality Population Ants Temperament Primates Physiological Stress Psychological Stress Inflammation Hemagglutination Gender Learning Fire Ants

Most Recent Papers

Adolescent Stress Reduces Adult Morphine-Induced Behavioral Sensitization in C57BL/6J Mice

Helen M. Kamens, Carley N. Miller, Jasmine I. Caulfield, Dana Zeid, William J. Horton, Constanza P. Silva, Aswathy Sebastian, Istvan Albert, Thomas J. Gould, Diana Fishbein, Patricia Sue Grigson, Sonia A. Cavigelli, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Correction to

Jasmine I. Caulfield, Allison M. Ching, Erin M. Cover, Avery August, Timothy Craig, Helen M. Kamens, Sonia A. Cavigelli, 2021, Psychopharmacology on p. 1225

Peri-adolescent asthma: Acute impacts on innate immune response, corticosterone, and microglia in mice

Caulfield, Jasmine, I, Kerri Schopf, Sonia Cavigelli, 2021, Advances in Neuroimmunology

Inhaled corticosteroids as treatment for adolescent asthma

Jasmine I. Caulfield, Allison M. Ching, Erin M. Cover, Avery August, Timothy Craig, Helen M. Kamens, Sonia A. Cavigelli, 2021, Psychopharmacology on p. 165-179

Inhaled corticosteroids as treatment for adolescent asthma: effects on adult anxiety-related outcomes in a murine model

Caulfield, Jasmine, I, Allison Ching, Erin Cover, A August, T Craig, H Kamens, Sonia Cavigelli, 2020, PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Divergent immune responses in behaviorally-inhibited vs. non-inhibited male rats

Kerry C. Michael, Robert H. Bonneau, Rebecca A. Bourne, La Dara Godbolt, Michael J. Caruso, Christine Hohmann, Sonia A. Cavigelli, 2020, Physiology and Behavior

Individual differences in glucocorticoid regulation

Jasmine I. Caulfield, Sonia A. Cavigelli, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Impact of genetic variation on stress-related ethanol consumption

Megan K. Mulligan, Lu Lu, Sonia A. Cavigelli, Pierre Mormède, Elena Terenina, Wenyuan Zhao, Robert W. Williams, Byron C. Jones, 2019, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research on p. 1391-1402

Population history with invasive predators predicts innate immune function response to early-life glucocorticoid exposure in lizards

Gail L. McCormick, Travis R. Robbins, Sonia A. Cavigelli, Tracy Langkilde, 2019, Journal of Experimental Biology

Genetic factors mediate the impact of chronic stress and subsequent response to novel acute stress

Elena E. Terenina, Sonia Cavigelli, Pierre Mormede, Wenyuan Zhao, Cory Parks, Lu Lu, Byron C. Jones, Megan K. Mulligan, 2019, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Most-Cited Papers

Long-term changes in cognitive bias and coping response as a result of chronic unpredictable stress during adolescence

Lauren E. Chaby, Sonia A. Cavigelli, Amanda White, Kayllie Wang, Victoria A. Braithwaite, 2013, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Sex, social status and physiological stress in primates

Sonia A. Cavigelli, Michael J. Caruso, 2015, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Social status, glucocorticoids, immune function, and health

Sonia A. Cavigelli, Hashim S. Chaudhry, 2012, Hormones and Behavior on p. 295-313

Chronic unpredictable stress during adolescence causes long-term anxiety

L. E. Chaby, S. A. Cavigelli, A. M. Hirrlinger, M. J. Caruso, V. A. Braithwaite, 2015, Behavioural Brain Research on p. 492-495

Ancestry trumps experience: Transgenerational but not early life stress affects the adult physiological stress response

Gail L. McCormick, Travis R. Robbins, Sonia A. Cavigelli, Tracy Langkilde, 2017, Hormones and Behavior on p. 115-121

Behavioral responses to physical vs. social novelty in male and female laboratory rats

Sonia A. Cavigelli, Kerry C. Michael, Sheila G. West, Laura Cousino Klein, 2011, Behavioural Processes on p. 56-59

Chronic stress during adolescence impairs and improves learning and memory in adulthood

Lauren E. Chaby, Sonia A. Cavigelli, Amy M. Hirrlinger, James Lim, Kendall M. Warg, Victoria A. Braithwaite, 2015, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Temperament moderates the influence of periadolescent social experience on behavior and adrenocortical activity in adult male rats

M. J. Caruso, M. K. McClintock, Sonia Angele Cavigelli, 2014, Hormones and Behavior on p. 517-524

Adolescent social stress increases anxiety-like behavior and ethanol consumption in adult male and female C57BL/6J mice

M. J. Caruso, L. R. Seemiller, T. B. Fetherston, C. N. Miller, D. E. Reiss, Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Helen Marie Kamens, 2018, Scientific Reports

Within-litter variance in early rat pup-mother interactions and adult offspring responses to novelty

C. M. Ragan, E. Loken, Cynthia Stifter, Sonia Angele Cavigelli, 2012, Developmental Psychobiology on p. 199-206

News Articles Featuring Sonia Cavigelli

Sep 25, 2018

Childhood Asthma Is Linked To Developing Anxiety As An Adult, According To New Research In Mice

Penn State researchers say that chronic lung inflammation associated with childhood asthma is linked to developing anxiety as an adult, according to new research in mice. Published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, the study shows that ongoing exposure to allergens in childhood was associated with chronic lung inflammation, which was also linked to genetic changes related to stress and serotonin production. The study also found that asthma attacks contributed to episodes of anxiety.

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