Artículos
Rojas-Carvajal M, Mora-Gallegos A, Fornaguera-Trías J, Brenes JC. Grooming behavior and habituation to novelty: Modulatory effects of environmental enrichment and repeated open-field experience. Sometido.
Brenes JC, Masis M, Quirós D, Fornaguera J. Social isolation-induced depressive-like behavior and alterations in serotonergic hippocampal function are reversed by treadmill exercise in rats. Sometido.
Rojas-Carvajal M, Fornaguera J, Badilla S, Brenes JC, Calvo MF. Sub-chronic administration of St. Johns wort reverses anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors induced by two different protocols of chronic stress in rats. Sometido.
Brenes JC, Schwarting RKW, Wöhr M. Ultrasonic vocalizations and psychomotor activity induced by amphetamine are differentially affected by social and physical environmental enrichment in rats. Sometido.
Brenes JC, Lackinger M, Höglinger GU, Schratt G, Schwarting RKW, Wöhr M. Differential effects of social and physical environmental enrichment on brain plasticity, cognition, and ultrasonic communication in rats. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2015. DOI: 10.1002/cne.23842.
Brenes JC & Schwarting RKW. Individual differences in anticipatory activity to food rewards predict cue-induced appetitive 50-kHz calls in rats. Physiology & Behavior, 2015; 149: 107-118.
Heyse N, Brenes JC, Schwarting RKW. Exercise reward induces appetitive 50-kHz calls in rats. Physiology & Behavior, 2015; 147:131–40.
Mora-Gallegos A, Rojas-Carvajal M, Salas-Castillo S, Saborío-Arce A, Fornaguera-Trías J, Brenes JC. Age-dependent effects of environmental enrichment on spatial memory and hippocampal and ventral striatal neurochemistry. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2015; 118: 96-104.
Brenes JC & Schwarting RKW. Attribution and expression of incentive salience are differentially signaled by ultrasonic vocalizations in rats. PLoS ONE, 2014; 9(7): e102414.
Pereira M, Andreatini R, Schwarting RKW, Brenes JC. Amphetamine-induced appetitive 50-kHz calls in rats: a genuine affective marker of mania? Psychopharmacology, 2014; 231 (13): 2567-77.
Brenes JC, Broiz C, Bassi GS, Schwarting RKW, Brandão ML. Involvement of neurokinin-mediated mechanisms in the midbrain tectum in fear and anxiety. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2012; 45(6): 349-356
Brenes JC & Fornaguera J. The effect of chronic fluoxetine on social isolation-induced changes on sucrose consumption, immobility behavior, and on serotonin and dopamine function in hippocampus and ventral striatum, Behavioural Brain Research, 2009; 198: 199-205.
Brenes JC, Padilla M & Fornaguera J. A detailed analysis of open-field habituation and behavioral and neurochemical antidepressant-like effects in postweaning enriched rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 2009; 197: 125-137.
Brenes JC & Fornaguera J. Effects of environmental enrichment and social isolation on sucrose consumption and preference: associations with depressive-like behavior and ventral striatum dopamine. Neuroscience Letters, 2008; 436: 278-282.
Brenes JC, Rodríguez O & Fornaguera J. Differential effect of environmental enrichment and social isolation on depressive-like behavior, spontaneous activity and serotonin and norepinephrine concentration in prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 2008; 89: 85-93.
Villalobos A, Echeverri P, León G, Brenes JC & Quirós D. Desarrollo de una Escala Pscométrica para medir factores de Estrés, Depresión y Patrón de Conducta Tipo A. Revista Cúpula, 2008; 22: 34-41.
Villalobos-Pérez A, Quirós-Morales D, León-Sanabria G & Brenes-Sáenz JC. Factores involucrados en la adhesión al tratamiento de la diabetes mellitus tipo II en una muestra de pacientes diabéticos de la zona norte de Costa Rica: un estudio psicométrico. Diversitas- Perspectivas en Psicología, 2007; 3, 25-36.
Brenes-Sáenz JC, Rodríguez O & Fornaguera J. Factor analysis of Forced Swimming test, Sucrose Preference test and Open Field test on enriched, social and isolated reared rats, Behavioural Brain Research, 2006; 169: 57-65.
Villalobos A, Brenes JC, Quirós D & León G. Características psicométricas de la Escala de Adherencia al Tratamiento de la Diabetes Mellitus tipo II – versión III (EATDM-III ©) en una muestra de pacientes de Costa Rica. Acta Colombiana de Psicología, 2006; 9 (2), 31-38.
Brenes JC & Rodríguez O. Estrés y Depresión: Hipótesis Neuroendocrinas. Humanitas, 2005; 1: 26-38.
Cantidad de citaciones recibidas en revistas científicas internacionales indexadas: 494 (al 06.09.15).
Revisor invitado para revistas científicas internacionales: Journal of European Neuroscience / Neuroscience (IBRO) / Journal of Developmental Neuroscience / Psychoneuroendocrinology / Psychopharmacology / Psychopharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior / Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry / Comparative Medicine / Behavioural Processes.
