Sonia Cavigelli
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health

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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.
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Anxiety Ethanol Corticosterone Glucocorticoids Nicotine Exploratory Behavior Lizards Alcohols History Inbred C57bl Mouse Temperament Population Ants Psychological Stress Health Rodentia Hemagglutination Brain Gene Expression Individuality Innate Immunity Depression Sprague Dawley Rats Inflammation PredatorMost Recent Papers
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
Inhaled corticosteroids as treatment for adolescent asthma
Jasmine I. Caulfield, Allison M. Ching, Erin M. Cover, Avery August, Timothy Craig, Helen Marie Kamens, Sonia Angele Cavigelli, 2020, Psychopharmacology
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
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
Timing matters: the interval between acute stressors within chronic mild stress modifies behavioral and physiologic stress responses in male rats
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Alexander D. Bao, Rebecca A. Bourne, Michael J. Caruso, Jasmine I. Caulfield, Mary Chen, Joshua Morrison Smyth, 2018, Stress on p. 453-463
Asthma induction during development and adult lung function, behavior and brain gene expression
Jasmine I. Caulfield, Michael J. Caruso, Rebecca A. Bourne, Nicole R. Chirichella, Laura C. Klein, Timothy Craig, Robert H. Bonneau, Avery August, Sonia A. Cavigelli, 2018, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Adolescent chronic variable social stress influences exploratory behavior and nicotine responses in male, but not female, BALB/cJ mice
M. J. Caruso, D. E. Reiss, J. I. Caulfield, J. L. Thomas, A. N. Baker, S. A. Cavigelli, H. M. Kamens, 2018, Brain Research Bulletin on p. 37-49
Adolescent social stress increases anxiety-like behavior and alters synaptic transmission, without influencing nicotine responses, in a sex-dependent manner
Michael J. Caruso, Nicole Crowley, Dana E. Reiss, Jasmine I. Caulfield, Bernhard Luscher, Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Helen Marie Kamens, 2018, Neuroscience on p. 182-198
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
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
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
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
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
Exposure to chronic variable social stress during adolescence alters affect-related behaviors and adrenocortical activity in adult male and female inbred mice
Michael J. Caruso, Helen M. Kamens, Sonia A. Cavigelli, 2017, Developmental psychobiology on p. 679-687
Adolescent chronic variable social stress influences exploratory behavior and nicotine responses in male, but not female, BALB/cJ mice
M. J. Caruso, D. E. Reiss, J. I. Caulfield, J. L. Thomas, A. N. Baker, S. A. Cavigelli, H. M. Kamens, 2018, Brain Research Bulletin on p. 37-49