As a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Jason Cannon\u2019s lab at Purdue, Dr. Shreesh Sammi has been looking into the neurotoxicity of forever chemicals known as PFAS.\u00a0 As described in a\u00a0recent article, PFAS and are potentially neurotoxic, but the extent of their toxicity to the brain is unknown, especially for the years and decades they may accumulate in the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[444,258,443,440,445,176,442],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-sciences","category-research","tag-aaron-bowman","tag-health-sciences","tag-jason-cannon","tag-pfas","tag-purdue-center-for-the-environment","tag-research","tag-shreesh-sammi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n