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Deborah Cory-SlechtaDeborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D.
Director, EOHSI; Chair, RWJMS-Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Med.
Professor and Chair
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Central Administration
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

http://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/bios/dcsbio.html

Email:

dcs@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Room:

216

Phone:

732-445-0205

Fax:

732-445-0131


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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