Dr. Cheryl Harding, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of NY and of the Doctoral Program in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, The Graduate Center, City University of NY. She originally trained as a behavioral neuroendocrinologist, studying how hormones acted on the brain to alter behavior and how an animal’s behavior affected its hormone levels. In '06, she became fascinated by early reports that mold exposure caused brain fog, interfering with normal cognitive function. There was no known physiological mechanism to explain how mold could cause these symptoms which mold patients reported. So she retrained in psychoneuroimmunology examining how the immune system affects brain function and behavior, obtained grant funds, and carried out a series of experiments in mice. These experiments demonstrated for the first time that mold exposure did cause brain inflammation with resultant behavioral dysfunction, that nontoxic mold stimuli were also a danger, and that innate immune activation appeared to trigger this cognitive and emotional dysfunction.

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Episode 77 - Mold Exposure, Brain Inflammation, & Immune System Activation with Dr. Cheryl Harding