Michelle Adams, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Psychology

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Education

• PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine-New York University, New York, 2001
• Former affiliations: Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor (Research) Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA

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Research

Aging and the synaptic changes that occur in the hippocampus that underlie learning and memory impairments; interventions that would ameliorate these synaptic alterations in the aging brain; hormonal manipulations in aged animals to determine whether these interventions will prevent age-related declines in the glutamatergic system.

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Selected Publications

Adams, M. M., Shi, L., Linville, M. C., Forbes, M. E., Long, A. B., Bennett, C., … & Brunso-Bechtold, J. K. (2008). Caloric restriction and age affect synaptic proteins in hippocampal CA3 and spatial learning ability. Experimental neurology, 211(1), 141-149.

Molina, D. P., Ariwodola, O. J., Weiner, J. L., Brunso-Bechtold, J. K., & Adams, M. M. (2013). Growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I alter hippocampal excitatory synaptic transmission in young and old rats. Age, 35(5), 1575-1587.

Arslan-Ergul, A., Erbaba, B., Karoglu, E. T., Halim, D. O., & Adams, M. M. (2016). Short-term dietary restriction in old zebrafish changes cell senescence mechanisms. Neuroscience, 334, 64-75.

Karoglu, E. T., Halim, D. O., Erkaya, B., Altaytas, F., Arslan-Ergul, A., Konu, O., & Adams, M. M. (2017). Aging alters the molecular dynamics of synapses in a sexually dimorphic pattern in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Neurobiology of aging, 54, 10-21.

Karaduman, A., Karoglu-Eravsar, E. T., Kaya, U., Aydin, A., Adams, M. M., & Kafaligonul, H. (2021). The optomotor response of aging zebrafish reveals a complex relationship between visual motion characteristics and cholinergic system. Neurobiology of Aging, 98, 21-32.