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Stephanie Leal

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology And Physiology
SchoolCollege of Letters and Science
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    1. Emotion regulation strategies differentially impact memory in hormonal contraceptive users. Horm Behav. 2025 Oct; 175:105805. Brandao BM, Castro M, Buergler JB, Clark KR, Denny BT, Leal SL. PMID: 40816024.
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    2. Fine-Tuning the Details: Post-encoding Music Differentially Impacts General and Detailed Memory. J Neurosci. 2025 Jul 30; 45(31). Clark KR, Leal SL. PMID: 40550693; PMCID: PMC12311753.
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    3. Cortical thickness and low-grade inflammation moderate the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive function in early widowhood: A preliminary study. Brain Behav Immun. 2025 Oct; 129:620-633. Wu-Chung EL, Kennedy KM, Medina LD, Schulz PE, Oswald FL, Heijnen CJ, Leal SL, Denny BT, Fagundes CP. PMID: 40541668.
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    4. Subclinical depressive symptoms and job stress differentially impact memory in working and retired older adults. Sci Rep. 2025 01 25; 15(1):3163. Ferguson LA, Harikumar A, Leal SL. PMID: 39863672; PMCID: PMC11763037.
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    5. Introduction to the special issue on individual differences in memory modulation. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2025 Feb; 25(1):1-5. Leal SL, Ford JH, Dennis NA. PMID: 39806224.
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    6. High and low current perceived stress associated with enhanced emotional mnemonic discrimination. Learn Mem. 2024 Dec; 31(12). Vas R, Phillips T, Ferguson LA, Harikumar A, Castro M, Leal SL. PMID: 39681458; PMCID: PMC11662142.
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    7. Tell me why: the missing w in episodic memory's what, where, and when. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2025 Feb; 25(1):6-24. Morales-Calva F, Leal SL. PMID: 39455523; PMCID: PMC11805835.
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    8. Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2024 04; 210:107904. Morales-Calva F, Leal SL. PMID: 38423168.
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    9. Emotion regulation during encoding reduces negative and enhances neutral mnemonic discrimination in individuals with depressive symptoms. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2023 11; 205:107824. Hayes BK, Harikumar A, Ferguson LA, Dicker EE, Denny BT, Leal SL. PMID: 37673391.
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    10. A novel face-name mnemonic discrimination task with naturalistic stimuli. Neuropsychologia. 2023 Oct 10; 189:108678. Mannion R, Harikumar A, Morales-Calva F, Leal SL. PMID: 37661039.
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    11. Perceived antidepressant efficacy associated with reduced negative and enhanced neutral mnemonic discrimination. Front Hum Neurosci. 2023; 17:1225836. Phillips TO, Castro M, Vas RK, Ferguson LA, Harikumar A, Leal SL. PMID: 37701502; PMCID: PMC10494429.
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    12. Toward user-centered assistive technologies for aging in place with cognitive impairment: a survey. Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2024 May; 19(4):1561-1567. Petersen CM, DeLucia PR, Oswald FL, Kortum P, Leal SL, Pickens S, Hekel BE. PMID: 37267121.
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    13. Iron-regulated assembly of the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis machinery. J Biol Chem. 2022 07; 298(7):102094. Fan X, Barshop WD, Vashisht AA, Pandey V, Leal S, Rayatpisheh S, Jami-Alahmadi Y, Sha J, Wohlschlegel JA. PMID: 35654137; PMCID: PMC9243173.
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    14. Spousal caregiving, widowhood, and cognition: A systematic review and a biopsychosocial framework for understanding the relationship between interpersonal losses and dementia risk in older adulthood. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2022 03; 134:104487. Wu-Chung EL, Leal SL, Denny BT, Cheng SL, Fagundes CP. PMID: 34971701; PMCID: PMC8925984.
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    15. Integrity of the uncinate fasciculus is associated with emotional pattern separation-related fMRI signals in the hippocampal dentate and CA3. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2021 01; 177:107359. Granger SJ, Leal SL, Larson MS, Janecek JT, McMillan L, Stern H, Yassa MA. PMID: 33285317; PMCID: PMC7855862.
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    16. Development of a mnemonic discrimination task using naturalistic stimuli with applications to aging and preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Learn Mem. 2019 07; 26(7):219-228. Leal SL, Ferguson LA, Harrison TM, Jagust WJ. PMID: 31209116; PMCID: PMC6581010.
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    17. Post-encoding stress enhances mnemonic discrimination of negative stimuli. Learn Mem. 2018 12; 25(12):611-619. Cunningham TJ, Leal SL, Yassa MA, Payne JD. PMID: 30442769; PMCID: PMC6239132.
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    18. Subthreshold Amyloid Predicts Tau Deposition in Aging. J Neurosci. 2018 05 09; 38(19):4482-4489. Leal SL, Lockhart SN, Maass A, Bell RK, Jagust WJ. PMID: 29686045; PMCID: PMC5943976.
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    19. Disruption of amygdala-entorhinal-hippocampal network in late-life depression. Hippocampus. 2017 04; 27(4):464-476. Leal SL, Noche JA, Murray EA, Yassa MA. PMID: 28085210; PMCID: PMC5858586.
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    20. Age-related individual variability in memory performance is associated with amygdala-hippocampal circuit function and emotional pattern separation. Neurobiol Aging. 2017 01; 49:9-19. Leal SL, Noche JA, Murray EA, Yassa MA. PMID: 27723500; PMCID: PMC5909956.
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    21. Positivity effect specific to older adults with subclinical memory impairment. Learn Mem. 2016 08; 23(8):415-21. Leal SL, Noche JA, Murray EA, Yassa MA. PMID: 27421893; PMCID: PMC4947236.
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    22. Greater loss of object than spatial mnemonic discrimination in aged adults. Hippocampus. 2016 Apr; 26(4):417-22. Reagh ZM, Ho HD, Leal SL, Noche JA, Chun A, Murray EA, Yassa MA. PMID: 26691235; PMCID: PMC5918289.
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    23. The attribution of value-based attentional priority in individuals with depressive symptoms. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2014 Dec; 14(4):1221-7. Anderson BA, Leal SL, Hall MG, Yassa MA, Yantis S. PMID: 24874421; PMCID: PMC4221358.
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    24. Effects of aging on mnemonic discrimination of emotional information. Behav Neurosci. 2014 Oct; 128(5):539-47. Leal SL, Yassa MA. PMID: 25150544; PMCID: PMC4196942.
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    25. Pattern separation of emotional information in hippocampal dentate and CA3. Hippocampus. 2014 Sep; 24(9):1146-55. Leal SL, Tighe SK, Jones CK, Yassa MA. PMID: 24796287; PMCID: PMC4172604.
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    26. Asymmetric effects of emotion on mnemonic interference. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2014 May; 111:41-8. Leal SL, Tighe SK, Yassa MA. PMID: 24607286; PMCID: PMC4194069.
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