Select publications:
Cloud, M. B., Jordan, S. K., & Kohman, R. A. (2026). Sexually dimorphic effects of lipopolysaccharide on spatial memory. Physiology & behavior, 313, 115355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2026.115355
Singleton, L. G., Thompson, K. F., Carroll, J., & Kohman, R. A. (2025). Middle-aged females are resistant to LPS-induced learning deficits: Sex comparison. Neuroscience letters, 845, 138072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2024.138072
Patel, R. P., Pirozzi, N.T., Hoefler, T.G., Connolly, M.G., Singleton, L.G., & Kohman R. A. (2023). Sex-dependent deficits in associative learning across multiple LPS doses. Physiol Behav 268.
Connolly, M. G., Bruce S. R., & Kohman R. A. (2022). Exercise duration differentially effects age-related neuroinflammation and hippocampal neurogenesis. Neuroscience, 490, 275–286.
Connolly MG, Yost OL, Potter OV, Giedraitis ME, Kohman RA. (2020) Toll-like receptor 4 differentially regulates adult hippocampal neurogenesis in an age- and sex-dependent manner. Hippocampus. 2020;1–12.
Potter OV, Giedraitis ME, Johnson CD, Cox MN, Kohman RA. (2019). Young and aged TLR4 deficient mice show sex-dependent enhancements in spatial memory and alterations in interleukin-1 related genes. Brain Behav Immun. 76:37-47
Littlefield AM., Kohman RA. (2017). Differential response to intrahippocampal interleukin-4/interleukin-13 in aged and exercise mice. Neuroscience. Neuroscience. 20;343:106-114
Littlefield AM., Setti SE., Priester C., Kohman RA. (2015). Voluntary exercise attenuates LPS-induced reductions in neurogenesis and increases microglia expression of a proneurogenic phenotype in aged mice. J Neuroinflammation. 30;12:138.
Kohman RA., Bhattacharya TK., Wojcik E., Rhodes JS. (2013). Exercise reduces activation of microglia isolated from hippocampus and brain of aged mice. J Neuroinflam., 10:114.
Kohman RA., Rhodes JS. (2013). Neurogenesis, inflammation and behavior. Brain Behav Immun. 27(1):22-32.
For complete list of publications:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/rachel.kohman.1/bibliography/42299506/public/?sort=date&direction=descending
Select Presentations:
Clark, M., Jordan, S.J., & Kohman, R. A. (2026). TLR7 activation disrupts associative learning in male and female mice. Poster presented at Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Conference, Waikoloa, HI.
Clark, M., Jordan, S., Geisinger, K., & Kohman, R. A. (2025). Sex-differences in LPS-induced spatial memory deficits. Poster presented at Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
Singleton, L., Carroll, J., Thompson, K., Geisinger, K., & Kohman, R. A. (2024). Prolonged voluntary alcohol consumption attenuates central and peripheral cytokine responses to lipopolysaccharide. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Singleton, L., Hoefler, T. G., Patel, R. K., Pirozzi, N. T., Carroll, J., Thompson, K. F., Anton, O. L., Kohman, R. A. (2023). Sex-differences in LPS-induced associative learning deficits: influence of dose and age. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.
Patel, R.K., Pirozzi, N.T., Hoefler,T.G., Cousins, K.L., Kohman, R.A. (2022). Immune activation and associative learning deficits: sex-dependent effects. Symposium for Learning about Alzheimer’s Disease Medical Research, Durham, North Carolina.
Connolly, M.G., Potter, O.V., Givens, D.R., Matheny, L.S., Sexton, A.R., Kohman, R.A. (2021). Differential effects of TLR4 inhibition on spatial memory and cell proliferation in male and female adult and aged mice. Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society conference.
Connolly, M., Yost, O., Giedraitis, M., Potter, O., Matheny, L., Rindoks, C., Kohman, R. (2019). Differential effects of TLR4 deficiency on hippocampal neurogenesis in male and female adult and aged mice. Society for Neuroscience in Chicago, IL.
Giedraitis, M., Cox, M., Potter, O., Johnson, C., Connolly, M., Bruce, S., & Kohman, R. (2017). Differential Effects of Intermittent versus Continuous Exercise in C57BL/6J Mice. Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC.
Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, Wilmington, NC
Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C.
Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, Waikoloa, Hawaii
Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
