{"id":2876,"date":"2016-08-16T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psy.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=2876"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:21:01","slug":"michelle-adams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psy.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=2876","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Adams, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michelle Adams<\/strong>
Professor, Department of Psychology<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine-New York University, New York, 2001<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Former affiliations: <\/span>Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor (Research) Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Research<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Selected Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Adams, M. M.,<\/strong> 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<\/em>, 211<\/em>(1), 141-149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

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

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