ellen.zakreski@fhs.cuni.cz

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Neuroendocrine responses to stress

Early childhood adversity

Life history strategy

Formation of attachments in early life and adulthood

Statistika v psychologickém výzkumu III. (YMPV016)

Specifické otázky administrativy psychologického výzkumu (YMPP017)

2020 - PhD (Neuroscience), Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada. Thesis: Role of stress responsive neuroendocrine systems in the environmental programming of life history strategy in humans.

Zakreski E, Androvičová R, Bártová K, Chronos A, Krejčová L, Martinec Nováková L, Klapilová K. (2024). Childhood Adversity and Offense-Supportive Cognitions Among Czech Adults with a Sexual Interest in Violence or Children. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1-14.

Pfaus JG, Zakreski E. (2024). Auditory Cues Alter the Magnitude and Valence of Subjective Sexual Arousal and Desire Induced by an Erotic Video. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53, 1065-1073.

Pfaus JG, Safron A., Zakreski E (2023). From distal to proximal to interactive: behavioral and brain synchrony during attraction, courtship, and sexual interaction-implications for clinical assessments of relationship style and quality. Sexual Medicine Reviews, 11, 312-322.

Zakreski E, Pruessner J (2020). Psychophysiological Models of Stress. In Harkness KL and Hayden EP (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Stress and Mental Health (Pp 487-518). Oxford.

Zakreski E, Pruessner J (2019). Effects of childhood trauma on the cortisol and testosterone stress response are mediated by life history strategy. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 100, S21-S22.

Zakreski E, Dismukes A, Tountas AM, Phan JM, Moody S, Shirtcliff E (2019). Developmental trajectories of HPA–HPG dual-axes coupling. In Schultheiss OC and Mehta PH (Eds) Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology (Chapter 33). Routledge.

Zakreski E, Barton A, Cooperman C, Pruessner J (2016). Parasympathetic and adrenocortical activity influence the effects of childhood adversity on negative affect following stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 71, 46.​

Barton A, Zakreski E, Pruessner J (2016). The effects of early life adversity on responses to the Montreal Imaging Stress Task. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 71, 67.

Zakreski E, Feneberg A., Barton A., Pruessner J (2015). Acute mortality salience interacts with early-life adversity to predict adrenocortical reactivity to stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 61, 41.

Pruessner J, Zakreski E (2015). The programming of the stress response network by early-life adversity Psychoneuroendocrinology, 61, 11.