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NSU Speaker’s Forum focusing on Stress & the Brain, May 25
Jaime Tartar, Ph.D., associate professor and research coordinator at Nova Southeastern University’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences.
Jaime Tartar, Ph.D., associate professor and research coordinator at NSU’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, will be the featured speaker at NSU’s Speaker’s Forum on Friday, May 25. Tartar’s presentation on is titled: “The effects of stress on the brain”
Tartar earned her Ph.D. in the behavioral neuroscience program at the University of Florida (UF), where the focus of her research involved discovering long-term changes that can occur in the neurobiological pathways involved in stress responses and developing animal models of chronic stress. She has also completed postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, where she studied neurological consequences of sleep perturbations using in vitro electrophysiological recording techniques. During her postdoctoral studies, Tartar also earned a certificate in sleep medicine from Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine. Tartar is widely published in many areas of neuroscience with topics ranging from clinical neurological impairments to basic cell physiology. Moreover, her publications are featured in highly respected, peer reviewed journals. Her current research involves three main avenues of investigation with student researchers. Her first research area explores mechanisms and consequences of acute and chronic stress in humans. Her second line of investigation examines the impact of sleep and sleep deprivation on human emotion and cognitive processing. The third avenue of investigation involves a series of studies on the relationship between emotion and cognition.
The weekly NSU Speaker’s Forum are hosted by Larry Calderon, Ed.D., NSU vice president for community and governmental affairs, and takes place each Friday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. The forum will be held in the Carl DeSantis Building, room 5026. For more information, please contact Tracey-Ann Spencer at straceya@nova.edu or 954-262-5208.