Publications

1. Vanderklish PW, Bastola T, Secrest P, Brush M, Poudel M, Shen Z, Yu CJ, Pflugmacher S, Leal S, Huang AS, Sadda SR, Weinreb RN, Gordts PLSM, Ju WK, Toomey CB, Sarraf ST. SPG302 mitigates diabetic retinal neuropathy and inner retinal damage in a genetic mouse model of diabetes.. Experimental eye research, 2026.
2. Leal S, Denardo A, Van Echten A, Jungnickel H, Nelson CB, Sandoval D, Salvador JA, Shin J, Chung A, Brush MN, Bennett CP, Piermatteo A, Secrest PD, Jung CL, Ganz T, Poli M, Gordts PLSM. Halofuginone suppresses hepcidin by a heparan sulfate-dependent mechanism to treat iron disorders in mice.. Blood advances, 2026.
3. Dicker EE, Leal SL, Denny BT. Emotion polyregulation and daily negative affect: predictors of use and strategy-level effectiveness.. Anxiety, stress, and coping, 2026.
4. Morales-Calva F, Velgekar A, Leal SL. Greater Interference From Multiple Exposures During Memory Retrieval Drives More Memorable and Forgettable Experiences.. Hippocampus, 2026.
5. Morales-Calva F, Velgekar A, Sekili M, Leal SL. Image memorability depends on interference in memory.. Scientific reports, 2025.
6. Brandao BM, Castro M, Buergler JB, Clark KR, Denny BT, Leal SL. Emotion regulation strategies differentially impact memory in hormonal contraceptive users.. Hormones and behavior, 2025.
7. Clark KR, Leal SL. Fine-Tuning the Details: Post-encoding Music Differentially Impacts General and Detailed Memory.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2025.
8. Wu-Chung EL, Kennedy KM, Medina LD, Schulz PE, Oswald FL, Heijnen CJ, Leal SL, Denny BT, Fagundes CP. Cortical thickness and low-grade inflammation moderate the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive function in early widowhood: A preliminary study.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2025.
9. Ferguson LA, Harikumar A, Leal SL. Subclinical depressive symptoms and job stress differentially impact memory in working and retired older adults.. Scientific reports, 2025.
10. Leal SL, Ford JH, Dennis NA. Introduction to the special issue on individual differences in memory modulation.. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2025.
11. Vas R, Phillips T, Ferguson LA, Harikumar A, Castro M, Leal SL. High and low current perceived stress associated with enhanced emotional mnemonic discrimination.. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2024.
12. Morales-Calva F, Leal SL. Tell me why: the missing w in episodic memory's what, where, and when.. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2024.
13. Morales-Calva F, Leal SL. Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination.. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2024.
14. Hayes BK, Harikumar A, Ferguson LA, Dicker EE, Denny BT, Leal SL. Emotion regulation during encoding reduces negative and enhances neutral mnemonic discrimination in individuals with depressive symptoms.. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2023.
15. Mannion R, Harikumar A, Morales-Calva F, Leal SL. A novel face-name mnemonic discrimination task with naturalistic stimuli.. Neuropsychologia, 2023.
16. Phillips TO, Castro M, Vas RK, Ferguson LA, Harikumar A, Leal SL. Perceived antidepressant efficacy associated with reduced negative and enhanced neutral mnemonic discrimination.. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2023.
17. Petersen CM, DeLucia PR, Oswald FL, Kortum P, Leal SL, Pickens S, Hekel BE. Toward user-centered assistive technologies for aging in place with cognitive impairment: a survey.. Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology, 2023.
18. Fan X, Barshop WD, Vashisht AA, Pandey V, Leal S, Rayatpisheh S, Jami-Alahmadi Y, Sha J, Wohlschlegel JA. Iron-regulated assembly of the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis machinery.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2022.
19. Wu-Chung EL, Leal SL, Denny BT, Cheng SL, Fagundes CP. 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.. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2021.
20. Granger SJ, Leal SL, Larson MS, Janecek JT, McMillan L, Stern H, Yassa MA. Integrity of the uncinate fasciculus is associated with emotional pattern separation-related fMRI signals in the hippocampal dentate and CA3.. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2020.
21. Leal SL, Ferguson LA, Harrison TM, Jagust WJ. Development of a mnemonic discrimination task using naturalistic stimuli with applications to aging and preclinical Alzheimer's disease.. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2019.
22. Cunningham TJ, Leal SL, Yassa MA, Payne JD. Post-encoding stress enhances mnemonic discrimination of negative stimuli.. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2018.
23. Leal SL, Lockhart SN, Maass A, Bell RK, Jagust WJ. Subthreshold Amyloid Predicts Tau Deposition in Aging.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018.
24. Leal SL, Noche JA, Murray EA, Yassa MA. Disruption of amygdala-entorhinal-hippocampal network in late-life depression.. Hippocampus, 2017.
25. Leal SL, Noche JA, Murray EA, Yassa MA. Age-related individual variability in memory performance is associated with amygdala-hippocampal circuit function and emotional pattern separation.. Neurobiology of aging, 2016.
26. Leal SL, Noche JA, Murray EA, Yassa MA. Positivity effect specific to older adults with subclinical memory impairment.. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2016.
27. Reagh ZM, Ho HD, Leal SL, Noche JA, Chun A, Murray EA, Yassa MA. Greater loss of object than spatial mnemonic discrimination in aged adults.. Hippocampus, 2016.
28. Anderson BA, Leal SL, Hall MG, Yassa MA, Yantis S. The attribution of value-based attentional priority in individuals with depressive symptoms.. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2014.
29. Leal SL, Yassa MA. Effects of aging on mnemonic discrimination of emotional information.. Behavioral neuroscience, 2014.
30. Leal SL, Tighe SK, Jones CK, Yassa MA. Pattern separation of emotional information in hippocampal dentate and CA3.. Hippocampus, 2014.
31. Leal SL, Tighe SK, Yassa MA. Asymmetric effects of emotion on mnemonic interference.. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2014.