Regional Concerns:
The Environmental Neuroscience (EN) thematic area interprets links between environmental exposures and adverse outcomes that lead to neurodevelopment and neurobehavioral impairment and neurologic disorders. The EN team, led by Sigrid Veasey, PhD has expertise in neurotoxicants, sleep deprivation, neurodegeneration, and Autism Spectrum Disorders.
A team of researchers, including Erica Korb, PhD, study chromatin modifiers replicating transcriptomic patterns in neurons at postmortem in autism spectrum disorder.
View Publication on Transcriptional Signatures
Jay Schnieder, PhD and colleagues examine changes in the hippocampus transcriptome after Pb exposure could be reversed by environmental enrichment.
View Publication on Early Life Lead Exposure
Sigrid Veasey, MD and colleague explore sleep disturbance and neurodegeneration.
View Publication on Chronic Sleep Disruption
CEET investigators conduct high-impact basic, translational, patient-oriented, and population-based research in Environmental Health Sciences within and across our four Thematic Areas.
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CEET is the hub for all Environmental Health Science training at Penn—opportunities for training and professional development exist at every level.
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