Congrats to Andrea Briseño for successfully defending her dissertation entitled Exploring the effects of age in a Drosophila melanogaster model of traumatic brain injury...

Dhira Patel – A preliminary strategy to provide further education to physicians and caregivers on the dietary approaches to the management of autism spectrum disorders Sasha Trofimova – Exploring the physical and behavioral effects of a potassium channel antagonist in young adult male rats Tori Togashi – Assessing the...

Dhira Patel, 2nd year PsyD student in the Hartman lab, successfully defended her doctoral project, entitled Dietary approaches to the treatment of autism spectrum disorders, which was recently published in a textbook (Advances in Neurobiology: Food and Autism)....

John Bellone, PhD (Hartman lab 2016 alumnus) is the founder and host of Navigating Neuropsychology, which “presents cutting edge scientific findings, debates and discusses important topic areas, and interviews experts in a variety of brain-behavior related fields”....

Acute intranasal osteopontin treatment in male rats following TBI increases the number of activated microglia but does not alter lesion characteristics. J Neurosci Res. 2019 Mar 20. doi: 10.1002/jnr.24405. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30892744 (Jullienne A, Hamer M, Haddad E, Morita A, Gifford P, Hartman R, Pearce WJ,...

Sasha Trofimova – Exploring the effects of irradiation and dietary polyphenol supplementation on behavior and neurogenesis in mice Caleb Barcenas – Exploring the effects of age, diet, and motor performance on cognitive assays in fruit flies Jaime Napan – Exploring the interaction between dietary polyphenols and recovery from anesthesia in Drosophila melanogaster...

Nika Kalynovska, a 5th-year PhD student in the Hartman lab, successfully defended her dissertation, entitled The impact of prenatal and early life pomegranate supplementation on neural birth and survival....

Jaime Napan, a 2nd-year PhD student in the Hartman lab, won a scholarship from the Hispanic Alumni of Loma Linda association....

David Ross, 4th year PsyD student in the Hartman lab, successfully defended his doctoral project, entitled A review of the effects and mechanisms of phytochemicals on Alzheimer’s disease pathology, which was recently published in Frontiers in Bioscience...

A project of 2 former Hartman lab students, Nikita Bajwa, PhD (2016 alumnus) and Shina Halavi, PhD (2018 alumnus), was just published: Repeated isoflurane in adult male mice leads to acute and persistent motor decrements with long-term modifications in corpus callosum microstructural integrity in the Journal of Neuroscience Research 2019...