Tamara Hershey
James S McDonnell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-5041
- Email: tammy@nospam.wustl.edu
Additional Titles & Roles
- Director of the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience
- Division Director – Translational Neuroscience
- Professor of Neurology
- Adjunct Professor
- Division Director – Translational Neuroscience
Education & Training
- Ph.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 1996
- B.A.: Earlham College, 1988
Research Interests
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.
Recent Publications
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Neurofilament light chain but not glial fibrillary acidic protein serum levels are elevated in Wolfram syndrome
Jansen, M. J., Lugar, H. M., Brown, C. M., Tang, A. F., Oiknine, L. J., Chen, L., Koller, J. M., Gordon, B. A., Marshall, B. A., Urano, F. & Hershey, T., Mar 18 2026, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 20, 1805916.
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Temporal trends and risk factors of hospital readmission following deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease
Di Luca, D. G., de Havenon, A., Prabhune, A., Perlmutter, J., Hershey, T. & Norris, S. A., Mar 2026, In: Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 144, 108196.
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Phase II trial of sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol in Wolfram syndrome
Urano, F., Marshall, B. A., Hurst, S., Robichaux-Viehoever, A., Ahmadi, S., Hershey, T., Van Stavern, G., Cruz Bravo, P., Carson, J. P., Pesko, J., Fox, K., Erpelding, N. & Bedrosian, C. L., 2026, In: Journal of Clinical Investigation. 136, 10, e198519.
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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.
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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.