Sex differences in the application of auditory and visual stimulation to alter neuropathology in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

@ Atlanta VA Medical Center

As a research scientist, I investigate how non-invasive audio-visual neurostimulation at specific frequencies (aka flicker) alters microglia's engulfment of amyloid plaques, and microglia morphology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.  

Immunohistochemistry of female 5XFAD mouse hippocampus to study neuropathology post audiovisual flicker

 20x confocal microscopy of a mouse hippocampus area CA1, pyramidal layer 

green = microglia; red=amyloid beta plaques, yellow = colocalized microglia and amyloid plaques

^ 3D mouse hippocampus area CA1, pyramidal layer 

>> Reconstruction of microglia in Imaris software to examine changes in morphology

Undergraduate student researcher Christopher He

Georgia Tech President's Undergraduate Research Award Recipient 2021