Paco S. Herson

Paco S. Herson's research focuses on how the brain is damaged and recovers after events like stroke, cardiac arrest, and traumatic brain injury, with particular attention to ion channels (such as TRPM2), synaptic function, and memory/cognitive recovery. Work in the lab spans molecular signaling pathways, neuroinflammation, sex differences in recovery, and translational models including mouse studies of Alzheimer's disease overlap with stroke and post-injury infection risk. Students would likely engage with both basic mechanistic neuroscience (calcium signaling, synaptic plasticity) and more applied/translational questions relevant to clinical stroke and brain injury outcomes.

Publication output has remained relatively steady over the last decade, fluctuating between roughly 6 and 17 papers per year without a clear long-term increase or decline.

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