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Environmental Neuroscience (EN)

The EN thematic area elucidates links between environmental exposures  and adverse outcomes that lead to neurobehavioral impairment and neurologic disorders. The EN theme, led by Dr. Sigrid Veasey, Professor of Medicine, is a multi-disciplinary group with members in Neuroscience, Genetics, Epidemiology, Biochemistry, Neurology, Medicine and Pediatrics, many of whom are members of the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences and/or Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology. The EN group is new to the CEET and was developed in part to address a major environmental concern for the region: lead (Pb) exposure. Investigators are particularly, interested in environmental stressors that may lead to sleep-disturbance and subsequent neurodegeneration and gene-environment interactions in autism spectrum disorders to identify modifiable risk factors. 

Environmental Neuroscience

Paul Axelsen, MD

Research Interests: Protein Lipid Interactions

Ian Blair, PhD

Research Interests: Oxidative Stress, Biomarkers of Human Disease

Maja Bucan,  PhD

Research Interest: Genetic Dissection of Complex Behaviors

Aimin Chen, MD, PhD

Research Interest: Environmental Epidemiology, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology

Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD

Research Interest: The Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Disease

Park Cho-Park, MD, PhD

Research Interest: Proteostasis and How Alterations in this Process Contribute to Normal Biological and Disease Processes

Eva-Maria S. Collins, PhD

Research Interest: High-throughput planarian behavioral screening for neurotoxicity and developmental neurotoxicity

Arnold Eiser, MD, MACP

Research Interest: Interaction between Environmental Toxicants, Metabolic Factors, and Cognitive Impairment

Michael Hart, PhD

Research Interest: Genetic and Environmental Influences in Autism

Elizabeth Heller, PhD

Research Interest: The Causal Mechanisms by which Epigenetic Reprogramming Contributes to Neuropsychiatric Disease

Marilyn Howarth, MD

Research Interest: Community Engagement

Harry Ischiropoulos, PhD

Research Interest: Proteomic Changes to Oxidative and Nitrative Stress

David H. Jang, MD, MSc FACMT



Research Interests: Mitochondrial medicine, therapeutics, and animal models of poisoning

Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, PhD

Research Interest: Keap-1-Nrf2 System and Neurodegenerative Disease

Erica Korb, PhD

Research Interest: Intersection of Neuroscience and Epigenetics

Jianghong Liu, PhD, RN, FAAN

Research Interest: Environmental Exposures and Childhood Development

David Lynch, MD, PhD

Research Interest: NMDA Receptor Antagonists for Treatment of Human Diseases

Guo-Li Ming, MD, PhD

Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Development and Mental Disorders

Nirmala Nirinjini Naidoo, PhD

Research Interest: Proteostatic Mechanisms Underlying Age Related Changes in Sleep and Wake Regulation

Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MSCE

Research Interest: Pediatric Toxicology

Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH

Research Interest: Risk Factors of Autism Spectrum Disorder

David Raizen, MD, PhD

Research Interest: The Regulation and Function of Sleep

Jay Schneider, PhD

Research Interest: Developmental Neurotoxicology with an Emphasis on Lead-induced Damage to the Brain

Rebecca Simmons, MD

Research Interest: Developmental Origins of Adult Diseases

Nathaniel Snyder, PhD, MPH

Research Interest: Exposure Science and Environmental Contributions to Autism Spectrum Disorder

Sigrid Veasey, MD (Leader)

Research Interest: Lead and Sleep Disorders

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