C. Sue Carter, Ph.D. Rudy Professor of Biology Director of The Kinsey Institute Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Additional Representative Publications Garfield, L., Holditch-Davis, D., White-Traut, R., Carter, C.S., McFarlin, B.L., Schwertz, D.,Seng, J.S., & Giugescu, C. 2014. Risk factors for postpartum depressive symptoms in low-income women with very low birth weight infants. Advances in Neonatal Care, In press. Garfield, L., Giurgescu, C., Carter, C.S. Holditch-Davis, D., McFarlin, B.L., Schwertz, D., Seng, J.S., & White-Traut, R. 2014. Depressive symptoms in the second trimester relate to low oxytocin levels in African-American women: A pilot study. Archives of Women’s Mental Health Epub June 21. Kujath, A.S., Quinn, L., Elliott, M.E. Varady, K.A., LeCaire, T.J., Carter, C.S., & Danielson, K.K. 2014. Oxytocin levels are lower in premenopausal women with type 1 diabetes mellitus compared to match controls. Diabetes, Metabolism Research Reviews. July 7, Epub ahead of print. MacKinnon, A.L., Gold, I., Feeley, N., Hayton, B., Carter, C.S., & Zelkowitz, P. 2014. The role of oxytocin in mothers’ theory of mind and interactive behavior during the perinatal period. Psychoneuroendocrinology 48: 52-62. Zelkowitz, P., Gold, I., Feeley, N., Hayton, B., Carter, C.S., Tulandi, T., Abenhain, H.A., & Levin, P. 2014. Psychosocial stress moderates the relationships between oxytocin, perinatal depression, and maternal behavior. Hormones and Behavior, 66: 351-360. Kenkel, W.M, Suboc, G., & Carter, C.S. 2014. Behavioral and neuroendocrine effects of voluntary exercise and fatherhood in male prairie voles. Physiology and Behavior 128: 252-259. Madularu, D., Athanassiou, M., Yee, J.R., Kenkel, W.M., Carter, C.S., & Mumby, D.G. 2014. Oxytocin and object preferences in the male prairie vole. Peptides Sept. 8 Epub ahead of print. Pyter, L., Yang, L., McKenzie, C.C., Rocha, J.M., Carter, C.S., Cheng, B., & Engeland, C.G. 2014. Contrasting mechanisms by which social isolation and restraint impair healing in male mice. Stress 17: 256-265. Rubin, L.H., Carter, C.S., Bishop, J.R., Pournajafi-Nazarloo, Drogos, L.L., Hill, S.K., Ruocco, A.C., Keedy, S.K., Reilly, J.L., Keshavan, M.S., Pearlson, G.D. Tamminga, C.A., Gershon, E.S. & Sweeney, J.A. 2014. Reduced levels of vasopressin and reduced behavioral modulation of oxytocin in psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, Mar 11. Epub ahead of print. Francis, S.M., Sagar, A., Levin-Decanini, T., Liu, W., Carter, C.S., & Jacob, S. 2014. Oxytocin and vasopressin in genetic syndromes and developmental disorders. Brain Research 1580: 199-218. Buisman-Pijlman, F., Sumracki, N.M., Gordon, J.J. Hyull, P.R., Carter, C.S. & Tops, M. 2013. Individual differences underlying susceptibility to addiction: role for the endogenous oxytocin system. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 119: 2228. Bell, A.F., Erickson, E.N & Carter, C.S. 2014. Beyond labor: The role of natural and synthetic oxytocin in the transition to motherhood. Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health 50: 35-42. Connelly, J.J., Golding, J., Gregory S.P., Ring, S.M., Davis, J.M., Davey Smith, G., Harris, J.C., Carter, C.S. & Pembrey, M. 2014. Personality, behavior and environmental features associated with OXTR genetic variants in British mother. Plos One Mar 12; 9 (3): e00465. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090465. Harris, J.C., & Carter. 2013.Therapeutic interventions with oxytocin: Current status and concerns. Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(10): 998-1000. Rault, J-L., Carter, C.S., Garner, J.P., Marchant-Forde, J.N., Richert, B.T., & Lay, D.C, jr. 2013. Repeated intranasal oxytocin administration in early life dysregulates the HPA axis and alters social behavior. Physiology and Behavior 112-113:40-48. Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Kenkel, W., Mohsenpour, S.R., Sanzenbacher, L., Saadat, H., Partoo, L., Yee, J., Azizi, F. & Carter, C.S. 2013. Exposure to chronic isolation modulates receptors mRNAs for oxytocin and vasopressin in the hypothalamus and heart. Peptides 43:20-26. Schradin, C., Kenkel, W., Krackow, S., & Carter, C.S. 2013. Staying put or leaving home: endocrine, neuroendocrine and behavioral consequence in male African striped mice. Hormones and Behavior, 63: 136-143. Seng, J, Miller, M.S., Sperlich, M., van de Ven, Brown, S., Carter, C.S., & Liberzon, I. 2013. Exploring dissociation and oxytocin as pathways between trauma exposure and trauma-related hyperemesis gravidarum: a test-of-concept pilot. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.14:40-55. Carter, C.S., & Jacob, S. 2013. Oxytocin and vasopressin: Mechanisms for potential sex differences observed in autism spectrum disorder. In: Ed. C. Powell and L.M. Monteggia. New York: Oxford University Press: The Autisms: Molecules to Model Systems. Pp. 334-366. Gouin, J-P., Carter, C.S., Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Malarkey, W.B., Loving, T.J., Stowell, J., and Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K. 2012. Plasma vasopressin and interpersonal functioning. Biological Psychology 91:270-274. Carson, D.S., Bosanquet, D.P., Carter, C.S. Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Blaszcynski, A, & McGregor, I.S. 2012. Preliminary evidence for lowered basal cortisol in a naturalistic sample of methamphetamine polydrug users. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 20:497-503. Hammock, E., Veenstra-VanderWeele, J., Yan, Z., Kerr, T. M., Morris, M., Anderson, G., Carter, C.S., Cook, E., Jacob, S. 2012. Examining autism spectrum disorders by biomarkers: example from the oxytocin and serotonin systems. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51: 712-721. Grippo, A.J. Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Sanzenbacher, L., Trahanas, D.M., McNeal, N., Clarke, D.A., Porges, S. W., & Carter, C.S. 2012. Peripheral oxytocin administration buffers autonomic but not behavioral responses to environmental stressors in isolated prairie voles. Stress, 15:149-61. Grippo, A.J., Carter, C.S., McNeal, N., Chandler, D.L., LaRocca, M.A., Bales, S.L., & 2 Porges, S.W. 2011. 24-Hour autonomic dysfunction and depressive behaviors in an animal model of social isolation: implications for the study of depression and cardiovascular disease. Psychosomatic Medicine 73:59-66. Rubin, L.H., Carter, C.S., Drogos, L., Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Sweeney, J.A., & Maki, P.M. 2010. Peripheral oxytocin is associated with reduced symptom severity in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 124:13-21. Adkins-Regan, E. & Carter, C.S. 2010. Neurobiology, endocrinology and behavior. IN: The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Chapter 206: pp. 459-556. Elsevier Ltd.,.Academic Press. Editors-in-Chief: Michael D. Breed and Janice Moore; Section editor Lee Drickamer. Williamson, J. Lewis, G. Grippo, A, Lamb, D., Harden, E., Handleman, M., Lebow, J., Carter, C.S., Porges, S.W. 2010. Autonomic predictors of recovery following surgery: An animal model. Autonomic Neuroscience 156:60-6. Gouin JP, Carter CS, Pournajafi-Nazarloo H, Glaser R, Malarkey WB, Loving TJ, Stowell J, Kiecolt-Glaser JK. 2010. Marital behavior, oxytocin, vasopressin and wound healing. Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:1082-1090. Grippo, A.J., Trahanas, D.M., Zimmerman II, R.R., Porges, S.W., & Carter, C.S. 2009. Oxytocin protects against isolation-induced autonomic dysfunction and behavioral indices of depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34: 1542-1553. Ruscio, M.G., Sweeny, T.D., Gomez, A., Parker, K., & Carter, C.S. 2009. Social environment alters central distribution of estrogen receptor-alpha in juvenile prairie voles. Physiology and Behavior, 98: 296-301. White-Traut, R., Watanabe, K., Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Schwertz, D., Bell, A., & Carter, C.S. 2009. Detection of salivary oxytocin levels in lactating women, Developmental Psychobiology, 51:367-373. Carter, C. S., Boone, B, & Bales, K. L. 2009. Early experience and the developmental programming of oxytocin and vasopressin. IN: Neurobiology of Parental Behavior, Ed. R. Bridges, Elsevier. Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Partoo, L., Sanzenbacher, L., Paredes, J., Hashimoto, K., Azizi, F., & Carter, C. S. 2009. Stress differentially modulates mRNA expression for corticotrophin-releasing hormone receptors in hypothalamus, hippocampus and pituitary of prairie voles. Neuropeptides, 43:113-23. DeVries, A.C., DeVries, M.B., Taymans, S.E., & Carter, C.S. 1996. Stress has sexually dimorphic effects on pair bonding in prairie voles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 93, 11980-11984. Carter, C. S., DeVries, A. C., & Getz, L. L. 1995. Physiological substrates of monogamy: The prairie vole model. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 19, 303-314. Winslow, J. T., Hastings, N, Carter, C. S., Harbaugh, C. R., & Insel, T. R. 1993. A role for vasopressin in pair bonding in monogamous prairie voles. Nature, 365, 545548. Carter, C. S. 1992. Oxytocin and sexual behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 16, 131-144. 3