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Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D.
Deborah Cory-Slechta, Professor and Chair, UMDNJ-RWJMS Department of
Environmental and Occupational Medicine, serves as the Director of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute and is a member of the Toxicology Division. Dr. Cory-Slechta has served
on numerous national research review and advisory panels and editorial boards of several journals. She is a renowned expert in the field
of neurodegenerative diseases focusing on environmental neurotoxicants as risk factors for behavioral disorders. Specifically this has included work on the impact of lead on learning and attention and associated neurochemical mechanisms, and, more recently, on the role of pesticides as risk factors for Parkinson's Disease. These research efforts have
resulted in over 100 papers and book chapters to date.
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Director, EOHSI; Chair, RWJMS-Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Med.
Professor and Chair
Central Administration
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
http://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/bios/dcsbio.html
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| Research Interests:| The relationships between neurotransmitter systems and behavior and how such relationships are altered by exposures to environmental toxicants, particularly the role of environmental neurotoxicants in developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases. |
Publications:Thiruchelvam, M.J., Powers, J.M., Cory-Slechta, D.A., Richfield, E.K. Risk factors for dopaminergic neuron loss in human alpha-synuclein transgenic mice. Eur J Neurosci. 19(4):845-54, 2004.
Reeves, R., Thiruchelvam, M., Cory-Slechta, D.A., Development of behavioral sensitization to the cocaine-like fungicide triadimefon is prevented by AMPA, NMDA, DA D1 but not DA D2 receptor antagonists. Toxicol Sci. 79(1):123-136, 2004.
Cory-Slehcta, D.A,. Virgolini, M.B., Thiruchelvam, M.J., Weston, D.D., Bauter, M.R. Maternal stress modulates the effects of developmental lead exposure. Environ Health Perspect. 112(6):717-30, 2004.
Reeves, R., Thiruchelvam, J., Cory-Slechta, D.A. Expression of behavioral sensitization to the cocaine-like fungicide triadimefon is blocked by pretreatment with AMPA, NMDA and DA D1 receptor antagonists. Brain Res. 1008(2):155-67, 2004.
Canfield, R.L., Gendle, M.H. and Cory-Slechta, D.A. Impaired neuropsychological functioning in lead-exposed children. Dev Neuropsychology. 26:513-540, 2004.
Awards and Honors:1969 Alpha Lambda Delta, honorary sorority
1979-1982 National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship
1982-1985 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences New Investigator Award
2001 Honoree, Fourth Annual Women in Science Sympoisum, for Lifetime Achievement and Dedication to the Role of Women in Science. Presented by the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute and the Douglass College Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science and Engineering. |
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