Shunya Yagi

Shunya Yagi (Graduate Student)

I am a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. I am interested in sex differences in brain diseases that involve hippocampal dysfunction such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), depression, and anxiety disorders. The overall research objectives of my PhD project focus on sex differences and influence of gonadal hormones in basal characteristics of neurogenesis and in functional connectivity of newborn neurons after spatial memory and fear-associated contextual memory. Outside of my academic work, I love to play soccer and go hiking.