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Laura B. Odom, PhD

Laura Odom

Laura B. Odom, PhD

  • Lewis Katz School of Medicine

    • Biomedical Education and Data Science

      • Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Anatomy
  • Pedagogy 
  • Neurobiology

EDUCATION

  • PhD, Anatomy, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 2025
  • BS, Neuroscience (with Distinguished Honors, Magna cum Laude), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294

MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Association for Anatomy (AAA)

PUBLICATIONS

  • Odom LB, Zagon IS, McLaughlin PJ. Prophylactic and therapeutic modulation of the OGF-OGFr axis ameliorates angiogenesis-associated pathology in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Exp Neurol. 2025 Apr;6(2):67-75.
  • Odom LB, Thomas GA, Zachariah JJ, Zagon IS, McLaughlin PJ. Exploring the relationships of physical, mental, and emotional symptoms and serum biomarkers of angiogenesis in multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler J Exp Transl Clin. 2025 Apr;11(2).
  • McLaughlin PJ, Odom LB, Arnett PA, Thomas GA, Orehek S, Zagon IS. Length of disease more than therapy impacts anxiety and depression in multiple sclerosis. Neurol Neurosci. 2023 Feb;4(1):1-6.
  • McLaughlin PJ, Odom LB, Arnett PA, Orehek S, Thomas GA, Zagon IS. Low-dose naltrexone reduced anxiety in persons with multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Int Immunopharm. 2022 Nov;113(2022):1-3.
  • Schoonover KE, Farmer CB, Morgan CJ, Sinha V, Odom LB, Roberts RC. Abnormalities in the copper transporter CTR1 in postmortem hippocampus in schizophrenia: a subregion and laminar analysis. Schizophr Res. 2021 Feb;228:60-73.