Silvia Castany Quintana

Postdoctoral Researcher at CSAN.

Research

Member of The Engblom Lab. Read more about our research below.

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The Engblom Lab

At the Engblom Lab, we investigate the mechanisms and circuits underpinning the aversive affective states and the depressive symptoms accompanying inflammatory diseases and major depression.

Publications

2025

Michael Fritz, Karlheinz Holzmann, Silvia Castany Quintana, Heidrun Haas, Christian Montag, David Engblom, Judith Streb, Manuela Dudeck (2025)

Sex-specific gene expression and weighted co-expression network analysis suggest distinct sex-specific molecular signatures in acutely suicidal MDD-patients without somatic comorbidities Frontiers in Genetics, Vol. 16, Article 1653768 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2025.1653768

2024

Silvia Castany Quintana, Priscila Batista Rosa, Kiseko Shionoya, Anders Blomqvist, David Engblom (2024)

Social transmission of inflammation in mice Brain, behavior, and immunity, Vol. 120, p. 464-470 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.06.024

Luisa B. Binder, Priscila Batista Da Rosa, Barbara M. de Sousa, Luana S. Chagas, Olga Dubljevic, Fanny Sandrine Martineau, Francesca Mottarlini, Silvia Castany Quintana, Lorena Morton, Fran Krstanovic, Isadora D. Tassinari, Jeiny L. Choconta, Ana Raquel Pereira-Santos, Laetitia Weinhard, Praveen N. Pallegar, Björn F. Vahsen, Izabela Lepiarz-Raba, Anne-Claire Compagnion, Marina Lorente-Picon (2024)

Neuro-immune interactions in health and disease: Insights from FENS-Hertie 2022 Winter School European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 59, p. 1977-1992 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16262

2021

Anna Klawonn, Michael Fritz, Silvia Castany Quintana, Marco Pignatelli, Carla Canal, Fredrik Similä, Hugo A. Tejeda, Julia Levinsson, Maarit Jaarola, Johan Jakobsson, Juan Hidalgo, Markus Heilig, Antonello Bonci, David Engblom (2021)

Microglial activation elicits a negative affective state through prostaglandin-mediated modulation of striatal neurons Immunity, Vol. 54, p. 225-234.e6 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.12.016

Organisation

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Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.