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Dr. Holly Hunsberger

@HunsbergerLab

Assistant Professor (she/her), @RFUniversity / @WestVirginiaU ➡️ @ColumbiaPsych / #SABV / Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease progression / 🚴 Instructor

 North Chicago, IL
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Joined June 2009
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Huge congrats to @KamKaplanRFUMS on his first first-author data paper and @Lainey10yes on her first ever publication!! Seriously so proud of this lab always. Summary below (2-4). link.springer.com/article/10…
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If you’re still around, I would love to chat about NPSs in Alzheimer’s disease and novel therapeutics for age-related mood disorders tonight! @ACNPorg #ACNP2026
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Closed out 2025 with 3 new publications! Proud to be a part of these collaborative teams. mdpi.com/3042-4518/3/1/2 (BZDs and dementia review) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… (Lifestyle impact on the brain review) intechopen.com/online-first/… (LatinX Women in Research & Innovation)
Unresolved Controversies: The Effect of Benzodiazepines on Cognition and Alzheimer’s Disease

Unresolved Controversies: The Effect of Benzodiazepines on Cognition and Alzheimer’s Disease

Background: Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are commonly prescribed for anxiety, insomnia, and muscle relaxation, but concerns remain regarding their potential long-term cognitive effects. Prior reviews have...

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Happening today!
Women's Health Research Cluster (@ResearchonWH) profile pictureWomen's Health Research Cluster@ResearchonWH8 Sep 2025
How do sex, stress & anxiety shape risk for Alzheimer’s disease? Join Dr. Holly Hunsberger on Sept 15 for our next #WHSS talk on vulnerabilities to aging & AD. 📅 Sept 15 | 12pm ET 💻 Free, virtual — register today: ow.ly/KR1150WJEny #Alzheimers #Research #WomensHealth
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If you’re at #AAIC25, come stop 🛑 by and say 👋🏻. Let’s chat about neuropsychiatric symptoms in aging, AD, and menopause. #159 exhibit hall.
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I’m really glad conferences started offering races ☺️! Technically my first race in a different country. Bucket list item ✅ #AAIC25
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@alzassociation29 Jul 2025
And they’re off! 🏃🏿‍♀️‍➡️🏃🏽‍♂️‍➡️🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️ This morning, #AAIC25 attendees are enjoying stunning waterfront views as they make their way down Toronto’s scenic Martin Goodman Trail during our AAIC 5K Run/Walk.
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Excited to see this work out! Combination therapy could be the future of AD treatments. Loved being a part of this study during my time in the Denny lab bridging the ketamine and AD crews. @BriKChen @DrChristineAnnD #ENDALZ alzres.biomedcentral.com/art…
Combinatorial targeting of NMDARs and 5-HT4Rs exerts beneficial effects in a mouse model of...

Combinatorial targeting of NMDARs and 5-HT4Rs exerts beneficial effects in a mouse model of...

Alzheimer's Research & Therapy - Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia. There are limited approved medications that delay cognitive decline or lessen...

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My favorite is the Summer lab explosion. I’m always impressed with the passion and new ideas from our summer interns and volunteers!! Thanks Tala Coffee Roasters for an awesome lab meeting space ☕️. Not pictured: My orange juice coffee combo 🤯.
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Each of us is a complicated web of emotions! @pixarinsideout @Lainey10yes @KamKaplanRFUMS @SashaFeshchenko #memoryengram #corememory #HappyHalloween
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First @SfNtweets for the Hunsberger Lab! Go say hi and talk science with this awesome crew 👇🏻 #proudPI #RFU @Lainey10yes @KamKaplanRFUMS
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Excited to finally share this labor of love! This was a huge team effort. Thanks to everyone involved, Christine for believing in it, the @NIHAging for funding, Dr. Seonjoo Lee for making my translational dream come true, and all the students who helped analyze brain images 🙏
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“The Real Cotsx” 😂 very entertaining lab meeting today. #newmascot
Lainey (gone to 💙☁️) (@Lainey10yes) profile pictureLainey (gone to 💙☁️)@Lainey10yes16 Sep 2024
Explain my job poorly. ChatGPT: I got you. @SashaFeshchenko gave us the highlight of lab meeting
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Lainey (gone to 💙☁️) (@Lainey10yes) profile pictureLainey (gone to 💙☁️)@Lainey10yes12 Sep 2024
Listening to @DrGlitterbear speak at the inaugural Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Online Research Symposium #SBNORS I can't begin to explain the thrill I'm experiencing as an animal scientist now in a neuroscience lab studying sex differences!
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Thank you for an awesome and stimulating talk!
Marija Kundakovic (@KundakovicLab) profile pictureMarija Kundakovic@KundakovicLab12 Sep 2024
Leaving Chicago after a brief visit for a seminar @RFUniversity⁩ . Had such great time talking to faculty & trainees —many thanks to ⁦@HunsbergerLab⁩ for the invitation! Great meeting ⁦@Lise_Eliot⁩ & all, such nice environment! Also managed to see city & friends!❤️
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If you’re @APA 2024, come join our discussion tomorrow on current directions in women’s neuropsychology research! #APA2024 shoutout @DrEllison16 for organizing and for the invite. #WIN
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Excited to welcome our new graduate student, @SashaFeshchenko, to the Hunsberger Lab! She comes to us with a Master's from CUNY, previously exploring the striatum, and now wants to check out the hippocampus 🙂interested in all things aging. Welcome Sasha!!
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Always so proud of our summer students! Perla has been with us for 3 summers and is turning her project into an honors thesis. 🤩 #INSPIREPROGRAM @RFUBrainSci
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A great pre conference experience at #AAIC24! Excellent workshop on how to access large AD datasets creating some new translational collabs 🤗. Thanks to the @alzassociation for a beautiful dinner and reminder of the communities impacted by our research.
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Are you ready to publish some cool new results on aging and cognitive decline?! Consider this special issue from @IJMS_MDPI. If you want more details, feel free to DM! mdpi.com/journal/ijms/specia…
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So awesome 👏🏻
Michelle Jin (@Michelle_Jin1) profile pictureMichelle Jin@Michelle_Jin117 Jul 2024
So excited to have my first project in the @DrChristineAnnD lab finally online! doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.12.6…! Tl;dr: we made an R software package for scalable mapping and (most importantly) analysis and visualization of 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 brain-wide ensembles.
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