Meghan Pierce, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Biography
Dr. Pierce is specifically interested in deployment-related health issues affecting women Veterans. Her research interests include alterations in the neurobiological response to stress related to posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid deployment-related pathologies and how this relationship differs between the sexes.
Websites
Education
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, PhD
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, MA
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, MS
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, BA
Publications
- Published on 2/1/2023
Hayes JP, Pierce ME, Brown E, Salat D, Logue MW, Constantinescu J, Valerio K, Miller MW, Sherva R, Huber BR, Milberg W, McGlinchey R. Genetic Risk for Alzheimer Disease and Plasma Tau Are Associated With Accelerated Parietal Cortex Thickness Change in Middle-Aged Adults. Neurol Genet. 2023 Feb; 9(1):e200053. PMID: 36742995.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/21/2022
Hawn SE, Neale Z, Wolf EJ, Zhao X, Pierce M, Fein-Schaffer D, Milberg W, McGlinchey R, Logue M, Miller MW. Methylation of the AIM2 gene: An epigenetic mediator of PTSD-related inflammation and neuropathology plasma biomarkers. Depress Anxiety. 2022 Apr; 39(4):323-333. PMID: 35312143.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/26/2022
Pierce ME, Hayes J, Huber BR, Jeromin A, Fortier CB, Fonda JR, Lasseter H, Chaby L, McGlinchey R, Milberg W. Plasma biomarkers associated with deployment trauma and its consequences in post-9/11 era veterans: initial findings from the TRACTS longitudinal cohort. Transl Psychiatry. 2022 02 26; 12(1):80. PMID: 35217643.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/16/2021
Hayes JP, Pierce ME, Valerio KE, Miller MW, Huber BR, Fortier CB, Fonda JR, Milberg W, McGlinchey R. The association between blast exposure and transdiagnostic health symptoms on systemic inflammation. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2022 Aug; 47(9):1702-1709. PMID: 34400776.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2021
Holmes SA, Quinlan A, Pierce ME. The Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior of Pain. Behavioral Markers of Pain. Elsevier. Amsterdam. 2021.
- Published on 7/13/2020
Pierce ME, Fortier C, Fonda JR, Milberg W, McGlinchey R. Intimate Partner Violence Predicts Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Severity Independent of Early Life and Deployment-Related Trauma in Deployed Men and Women Veterans. J Interpers Violence. 2022 03; 37(5-6):2659-2680. PMID: 32659158.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/21/2020
Brown EM, Pierce ME, Clark DC, Fischl BR, Iglesias JE, Milberg WP, McGlinchey RE, Salat DH. Test-retest reliability of FreeSurfer automated hippocampal subfield segmentation within and across scanners. Neuroimage. 2020 04 15; 210:116563. PMID: 31972281.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/30/2019
Esterman M, Fortenbaugh FC, Pierce ME, Fonda JR, DeGutis J, Milberg W, McGlinchey R. Trauma-related psychiatric and behavioral conditions are uniquely associated with sustained attention dysfunction. Neuropsychology. 2019 Jul; 33(5):711-724. PMID: 31144830.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/23/2016
Pierce ME, Pritchard LM. Lower stress-reactive cortisol in female veterans associated with military status but not PTSD. Stress. 2016 Sep; 19(5):486-91. PMID: 27460501.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/22/2016
Banks SJ, Sreenivasan KR, Weintraub DM, Baldock D, Noback M, Pierce ME, Frasnelli J, James J, Beall E, Zhuang X, Cordes D, Leger GC. Structural and Functional MRI Differences in Master Sommeliers: A Pilot Study on Expertise in the Brain. Front Hum Neurosci. 2016; 10:414. PMID: 27597821.
Read at: PubMed
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