Todd Stollenwerk, PhD

Psychosis, endocannabinoid system, intersection between psychiatry and medicine

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2018-2022
Advisor: Cecilia Hillard, PhD
Project: Contribution of adolescent risk states to behavioral changes in a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2015-2016
Advisor: Cecilia Hillard, PhD
Project: Role of endocannabinoids in stress-potentiated reinstatement of addictive behavior in a model of rat cocaine self-administration.

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2015-2016
Advisor: Nashaat Gerges, PhD
Project: Regulation of neurogranin, a synaptic regulator of CaM, through microRNAs and post-translational modifications.

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2007-2008, 2011
Advisors: Phillip Pratt, PhD, and David Warltier, MD PhD
Project: Role of near infrared light in nitric oxide production and cardioprotection against ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Publications

Martinez Ramirez CE, Ruiz-Pérez G, Stollenwerk TM, Behlke C, Doherty A, Hillard CJ. Endocannabinoid signaling in the central nervous system. Glia. 2023;71(1):5-35. doi:10.1002/glia.24280. PMID: 36308424.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. Adolescent THC Treatment Does Not Potentiate the Behavioral Effects in Adulthood of Maternal Immune Activation. Cells. 2021 Dec 11;10(12):3503. doi: 10.3390/cells10123503. PMID: 34944011; PMCID: PMC8700174.

Stollenwerk TM, Pollock S, Hillard CJ. Contribution of the Adenosine 2A Receptor to Behavioral Effects of Tetrahydrocannabinol, Cannabidiol and PECS-101. Molecules. 2021 Sep 2;26(17):5354. doi: 10.3390/molecules26175354. PMID: 34500787; PMCID: PMC8434367.

Yuan CY, Zhou V, Sauber G, Stollenwerk T, et al. Signaling through the type 2 cannabinoid receptor regulates the severity of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease. Blood. 2021 Mar 4;137(9):1241-1255. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020004871. PMID: 33027805; PMCID: PMC7933769.

deRoon-Cassini TA, Stollenwerk TM, Beatka M, Hillard CJ. Meet Your Stress Management Professionals: The Endocannabinoids. Trends Mol Med. 2020 Oct;26(10):953-968. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2020.07.002. Epub 2020 Aug 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 32868170; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7530069. 

Meeting Abstracts

Stollenwerk TM, Navarro-Montoya AM. ""She Needs to Die"": Seronegative Autoimmune Encephalitis after COVID-19 Infection Presenting as Homicidal Ideation [Poster presentation]. Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry annual meeting, Austin, TX, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Falk-Steinmetz M, Crawford C. (2022, September 21-23). Creating a workshop series to train medial and pharmacy student tutors [Oral presentation]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, November 7-12). Adolescent THC exposure does not worsen behaviors associated with hyperdopaminergic states in a mouse maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia [Poster presentation]. Gordon Research Conference: Cannabinoid Function in the CNS, Ventura, CA, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Castellanos MJ. (2021, September 22-24). Using pre-class review sessions to enhance learning in the Medical Physiology course [Oral presentation]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Castellanos MJ. (2021, September 22-24). Implementing interactive extracurricular case-based learning sessions to help M1 students review, integrate, and apply physiology principles [Poster presentation]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, June 20-25). Sex-dependent effects of adolescent THC exposure on cognitive performance in a mouse maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia [Poster presentation]. International Cannabinoid Research Society Symposium, Jerusalem, Israel.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, June 3-4). Sex-dependent effects of adolescent THC exposure on cognitive performance in a mouse maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia [Poster presentation]. European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine 2021 Virtual Conference.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, March 18). Role of endocannabinoid signaling in the effects of stress and corticosterone on prepulse inhibition [Oral presentation]. Graduate Student Association Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, February 5). Corticosterone induces an endocannabinoid-mediated enhancement of prepulse inhibition resembling the effect of acute stress in male but not female mice [Poster presentation]. Graduate School Research Poster Session, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Falk-Steinmetz M, Dwinell M. (2020, April 25-26). The role of near-peer teaching in medical education: perspectives gained through the Medical Physiology course and student tutoring in general at MCW [Panel discussion]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Saldaña SL, Hillard CJ, Cunningham CW. (2019, June 30-July 3). CWC-1-001 Exhibits CB1 Receptor Allosteric Modulatory Effects [Poster presentation]. International Cannabinoid Research Society Symposium, Bethesda, MD, USA. 

General Interests

Water skiing, piano, ballroom dance