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Jay S. Schneider, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology & Genomic Medicine
Contact Information
1020 Locust Street
Jefferson Alumni Hall, Suite 521
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Professor, Department of Pathology & Genomic Medicine
Research and Clinical Interests
Basic, clinical and translational research on cognitive and motor aspects of Parkinson's disease with focuses on both symptomatic and neuroprotective treatment strategies; basic and clinical research on developmental neurotoxicology with an emphasis on lead-induced damage to the brain.
Education
PhD, SUNY at Stony Brook - 1981
Publications
- Functional effects of heavy metal exposures on N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation and other Epitranscriptomic modifications in the central nervous system
- Developmental lead exposure and aggression in male rats: Influences of maternal care and environmental enrichment
- Influences of quality of maternal care and environmental enrichment on associative memory function in rats with early life lead exposure
- Response to “comment on ‘neurotoxicity and outcomes from developmental lead exposure: Persistent or permanent?’”
- Neurotoxicity and Outcomes from Developmental Lead Exposure: Persistent or Permanent?
Most Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
- The Tyrosine Phosphatase STEP Is Involved in Age-Related Memory Decline
- Effects of low level lead exposure on associative learning and memory in the rat: Influences of sex and developmental timing of exposure
- Rearing environment, sex and developmental lead exposure modify gene expression in the hippocampus of behaviorally naïve animals
- Sex and rearing condition modify the effects of perinatal lead exposure on learning and memory
- Differential effect of postnatal lead exposure on gene expression in the hippocampus and frontal cortex
- Broad neuroprotective profile of nicotinamide in different mouse models of MPTP-induced parkinsonism
- Striatal preprotachykinin gene expression reflects parkinsonian signs