Neurochemical mechanisms of low-level exposures and the genetic and environmental models of Parkinson's Disease.

Thiruchelvam M, McCormack A, Richfield EK, Baggs R, Tank AW, Di Monte DA, Cory-Slechta DA. Age-related irreversible nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurotoxicity in the paraquat and maneb model of the Parkinson's disease phenotype. Eur. J. of Neuroscience 2003;18:589-600.

Abdelhalim AN, Moritani T, Richfield EK, Ekholm SE, Westesson PL. Epidermal nevus syndrome: Megalencephaly with bihemispheric and cerebellar involvement: With imaging and neuropathologic correlation. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 2003;27(4):534-537.

Cory-Slechta DA, Thiruchelvam M, Richfield EK, Barlow DK and Brooks AI. Developmental pesticide exposures and the Parkinson's disease phenotype. Env. Health Perspectives 2003 (in press).

Reeves R, Thiruchelvam M, Richfield EK, Cory-Slechta DA. Behavioral sensitization and long-term neurochemical alterations associated with the fungicide triadimefon. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior (in press).

Thiruchelvam M, Powers J, Cory-Slechta DA, Richfield EK. Risk Factors for dopaminergic neuron loss in human-synuclein transgenic mice. Eur. J. of Neuroscience (in press).

Tourette Syndrome Association Fellowship

NIH Training Grant - University of Michigan

National Research Service Award

Buswell Award-Univ of Rochester