Tamara Hershey

Additional Titles & Roles

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• Director of the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience
• Division Director – Translational Neuroscience
• Professor of Neurology
• Adjunct Professor
• Director, Neuroimaging Labs Research Center

Education & Training

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• Ph.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 1996
• B.A.: Earlham College, 1988

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Research Interests

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Neuropathophysiology underlying cognitive and mood aspects of Parkinson disease.
Neuropathophysiological and behavioral effects of obesity and diabetes.
Using neuroimaging and neuropsychological techniques, we study:
1) effects of obesity, T1 diabetes and T2 diabetes on the brain in children and adults.
2) neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative changes in Wolfram syndrome
3) effects of Parkinson disease on cognitive and mood processes; how deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus affects brain function.

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Recent Publications

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• A high-density diffuse optical tomography dataset of naturalistic viewing

  Sherafati, A., Bajracharya, A., Jones, M. S., Speh, E., Munsi, M., Lin, C. H. P., Fishell, A. K., Hershey, T., Eggebrecht, A. T., Culver, J. P. & Peelle, J. E., Dec 2025, In: Scientific data. 12, 1, 1762.

• Cholinergic dysfunction in occupational manganese exposure

  Hutson, T. N., Nielsen, S. S., Senini, N., O’Donnell, J., Flores, H. P., Hershey, T., Perlmutter, J. S., Soda, A. K., Moerlein, S. M., Tu, Z., Kasper, M., Sheppard, L., Racette, B. A. & Criswell, S. R., Dec 2025, In: NeuroToxicology. 111, 103313.

• The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action

  Krimmel, S. R., Laumann, T. O., Chauvin, R. J., Hershey, T., Roland, J. L., Shimony, J. S., Willie, J. T., Norris, S. A., Marek, S., N. Van, A., Wang, A., Monk, J., Scheidter, K. M., Whiting, F. I., Ramirez-Perez, N., Metoki, A., Baden, N. J., Kay, B. P., Siegel, J. S. & Nahman-Averbuch, H. & 6 others, Snyder, A. Z., Fair, D. A., Lynch, C. J., Raichle, M. E., Gordon, E. M. & Dosenbach, N. U. F., Dec 2025, In: Nature communications. 16, 1, 3398.

• Differences in White Matter Microstructure in Children With Type 1 Diabetes Persist During Longitudinal Follow-up: Relation to Dysglycemia

  Mauras, N., Ma, Q., Weinzimer, S. A., White, N. H., Tsalikian, E., Buckingham, B., Fox, L. A., Tamborlane, W., Arbelaez, A. M., Tansey, M., Aye, T., Cato, A., Hershey, T., Englert, K., Marzelli, M., Jo, B., Reiss, A., Sikes, K., Ewen, T. & Bird, K. & 20 others, Reiss, A. L., Foland-Ross, L., Marzelli, M. J., Mazaika, P. K., Tong, G., Tansey, M. J., Coffey, J., Cabbage, J., Salamati, S., Bisbee, R., Buckingham, B. A., Wilson, D. M., Kingman, R. S., Tamborlane, W. V., Ambrosino, J., Steffen, A., Weyman, K., Zgorski, M., Levandoski, L. & Starnes, A., Aug 2025, In: Diabetes. 74, 8, p. 1417-1426 10 p.

• A Phenome-Wide association study (PheWAS) of genetic risk for C-reactive protein in children of European Ancestry: Results from the ABCD study

  Norton, S. A., Gorelik, A. J., Paul, S. E., Johnson, E. C., Baranger, D. A., Siudzinski, J. L., Li, Z. A., Bondy, E., Modi, H., Karcher, N. R., Hershey, T., Hatoum, A. S., Agrawal, A. & Bogdan, R., Aug 2025, In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 128, p. 487-496 10 p.

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Funded Research Projects

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