Lesuis, S. L., Park, S., Hoorn, A., Rashid, A. J., Mocle, A. J., Salter, E. W., Vislavski, S., Gray, M. T., Torelli, A. M., DeCristofaro, A., Driever, W. P. F., van der Stelt, M., Zweifel, L. S., Collingridge, G. L., Lefebvre, J. L., Walters, B. J., Frankland, P. W., Hill, M. N., & Josselyn, S. A. (2025). Stress disrupts engram ensembles in lateral amygdala to generalize threat memory in mice. Cell, 188(1), 121-140.e20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.10.034[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Rashid, A. J., Hoorn, A., Park, S., Mocle, A. J., Torelli, A. M., DeCristofaro, A., Frankland, P. W., Hill, M. N., & Josselyn, S. A. (2025). Protocol to visualize three distinct neuronal ensembles encoding different events in the mouse brain using genetic and viral approaches. STAR Protocols, 6(2), Article 103747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103747[details]
Lucassen, P. J., Korosi, A., de Rooij, S. R., Smit, A. B., Van Dam, A.-M., Daskalakis, N. P., Van Kesteren, R. E., Verheijen, M. H. G., Lesuis, S. L., Kessels, H. W., & Krugers, H. J. (2025). How Can Early Stress Influence Later Alzheimer's Disease Risk? Possible Mediators and Underlying Mechanisms. Biological Psychiatry, 97(4), 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.11.007[details]
Willems, T. S., Xiong, H., Kessels, H. W., & Lesuis, S. L. (2025). GluA1-containing AMPA receptors are necessary for sparse memory engram formation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 218, Article 108031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2025.108031[details]
Brosens, N., Lesuis, S. L., Rao-Ruiz, P., van den Oever, M. C., & Krugers, H. J. (2024). Shaping Memories via Stress: A Synaptic Engram Perspective. Biological Psychiatry, 95(8), 721-731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.11.008[details]
Kotah, J. M., Kater, M. S. J., Brosens, N., Lesuis, S. L., Tandari, R., Blok, T. M., Marchetto, L., Yusaf, E., Koopmans, F. T. W., Smit, A. B., Lucassen, P. J., Krugers, H. J., Verheijen, M. H. G., & Korosi, A. (2024). Early-life stress and amyloidosis in mice share pathogenic pathways involving synaptic mitochondria and lipid metabolism. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(3), 1637-1655. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13569[details]
Brosens, N., Lesuis, S. L., Bassie, I., Reyes, L., Gajadien, P., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2023). Elevated corticosterone after fear learning impairs remote auditory memory retrieval and alters brain network connectivity. Learning & Memory, 30(7), 125-132. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053836.123[details]
Sanguino-Gómez, J., Buurstede, J. C., Abiega, O., Fitzsimons, C. P., Lucassen, P. J., Eggen, B. J. L., Lesuis, S. L., Meijer, O. C., & Krugers, H. J. (2022). An emerging role for microglia in stress-effects on memory. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(9-10), 2491-2518. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15188[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Brosens, N., Immerzeel, N., van der Loo, R. J., Mitrić, M., Bielefeld, P., Fitzsimons, C. P., Lucassen, P. J., Kushner, S. A., van den Oever, M. C., & Krugers, H. J. (2021). Glucocorticoids Promote Fear Generalization by Increasing the Size of a Dentate Gyrus Engram Cell Population. Biological Psychiatry, 90(7), 494-504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.04.010[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2021). Early life stress amplifies fear responses and hippocampal synaptic potentiation in the APPswe/PS1dE9 Alzheimer mouse model. Neuroscience, 454, 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.07.012[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Timmermans, W., Lucassen, P. J., Hoogenraad, C. C., & Krugers, H. J. (2020). Glucocorticoid and β-adrenergic regulation of hippocampal dendritic spines. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 32(1), Article e12811. https://doi.org/10.1111/jne.12811[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Kaplick, P. M., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2019). Treatment with the glutamate modulator riluzole prevents early life stress-induced cognitive deficits and impairments in synaptic plasticity in APPswe/PS1dE9 mice. Neuropharmacology, 150, 175-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2019.02.023[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2019). Early life stress impairs fear conditioning memory and synaptic plasticity; a potential role for GluN2B. Neuropharmacology, 149, 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2019.01.010[details]
Hoeijmakers, L., Lesuis, S. L., Krugers, H., Lucassen, P. J., & Korosi, A. (2018). A preclinical perspective on the enhanced vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease after early-life stress. Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 172-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2018.02.003[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Catsburg, L. A. E., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2018). Effects of corticosterone on mild auditory fear conditioning and extinction; role of sex and training paradigm. Learning & Memory, 25(10), 544-549. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.047811.118[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Hoeijmakers, L., Korosi, A., de Rooij, S. R., Swaab, D. F., Kessels, H. W., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2018). Vulnerability and resilience to Alzheimer's disease: early life conditions modulate neuropathology and determine cognitive reserve. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 10, Article 95. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-018-0422-7[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Weggen, S., Baches, S., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2018). Targeting glucocorticoid receptors prevents the effects of early life stress on amyloid pathology and cognitive performance in APP/PS1 mice. Translational Psychiatry, 8, Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-018-0101-2[details]
Pillai, A. G., Arp, M., Velzing, E., Lesuis, S. L., Schmidt, M. V., Holsboer, F., Joëls, M., & Krugers, H. J. (2018). Early life stress determines the effects of glucocorticoids and stress on hippocampal function: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence respectively. Neuropharmacology, 133, 307-318. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.02.001[details]
2017
Krugers, H. J., Arp, J. M., Xiong, H., Kanatsou, S., Lesuis, S. L., Korosi, A., Joels, M., & Lucassen, P. J. (2017). Early life adversity: Lasting consequences for emotional learning. Neurobiology of Stress, 6, 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2016.11.005[details]
Lesuis, S. L., van Hoek, B. A. C. E., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2017). Early postnatal handling reduces hippocampal amyloid plaque formation and enhances cognitive performance in APPswe/PS1dE9 mice at middle age. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, 27-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.05.016[details]
Lesuis, S. L., Maurin, H., Borghgraef, P., Lucassen, P. J., Van Leuven, F., & Krugers, H. J. (2016). Positive and negative early life experiences differentially modulate long term survival and amyloid protein levels in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Oncotarget, 7(26), 39118-39135. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.9776[details]
Lucassen, P. J., Jacobs, E. H., Hoeijmakers, L., Lesuis, S. L., Krugers, H., Korosi, A., Kuhn, H. G., & Boekhoorn, K. (2015). Stem cells and neurogenesis in relation to Alzheimer's disease Models. In H. G. Kuhn, & A. J. Eisch (Eds.), Neural Stem Cells in Development, Adulthood and Disease (pp. 53-78). (Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine series). Human Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1908-6_4[details]
Lucassen, P. J., Lesuis, S. L., Hoeijmakers, L., Yam, K. Y., Fitzsimons, C. P., Korosi, A., & Krugers, H. (2019). Brain plasticity in relation to (early life) stress, nutrition and dementia. Journal of Neural Transmission, 126(11), 1561-1562.
2019
Lesuis, S. L. (2019). Stress and memory in health and disease: Impact on Alzheimer's disease and memory mechanisms. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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