Featured Publications

Agrawal R, Gomez-Pinilla F. ‘Metabolic syndrome’ in the brain: deficiency in omega-3 fatty acid exacerbates dysfunctions in insulin receptor signalling and cognition. J Physiol. 2012 May

Neeper, S.A., Gómez-Pinilla, F., Choi, J. and Cotman, C.W., Excercise-induced increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the rat brain, Nature, 373 (1995) 109.

Gómez-Pinilla F.  Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function. Nature Rev Neurosci. 9(7) (2008) 568-78.

Gomez-Pinilla, F., Zhuan, Y, Ying, L., Fan G., Exercise regulates BDNF plasticity by engaging epigenetic mechanisms, Eur J. Neurosci., (2011) 33(3) 383-390.

Agrawal R, Gomez-Pinilla F. ‘Metabolic syndrome’ in the brain: deficiency in omega-3 fatty acid exacerbates dysfunctions in insulin receptor signalling and cognition. J Physiol. 590(Pt 10) (2012) 2485-99.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Hillman C.  The influence of exercise on cognitive abilities.  Compr Physiol. 2013 Jan;3(1):403-28. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c110063. PMID: 23720292

Agrawal R, Yumei Zhuang, Noble E, Vergnes L, Ying Z, Reue K and Gomez-Pinilla F, Dietary fructose aggravates the pathobiology of TBI by influencing energy homeostasis and plasticity, J. Cerebral Blood Flow Metab, 2015 Oct 1. PMID:  26661172

Meng Q, Ying Z, Noble E, Zhao Y, Agrawal R, Mikhail A, Zhuang Y, Tyagi E, Zhang Q, Lee JH, Morselli M, Orozco L, Guo W, Kilts TM, Zhu J, Zhang B, Pellegrini M, Xiao X, Young MF, Gomez-Pinilla F, Yang X. Systems Nutrigenomics Reveals Brain Gene Networks Linking Metabolic and Brain Disorders. EBioMedicine. 2016 May;7:157-66. PubMed PMID: 27322469; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4909610.

Qingying Meng, Yumei Zhuang, Zhe Ying, Rahul Agrawal, Xia Yang, Fernando Gomez-Pinilla.  Traumatic Brain Injury Induces Genome-wide Transcriptomic, Methylomic, and Network Perturbations in Brain and Blood Predicting Neurological Disorders , EBioMedicine, in press.