Her research examines the steroid-dependent mechanisms through which sexually dimorphic behaviors and brain circuits arise, and she also explores the mechanisms by which sexually dimorphic systems and behaviors can be disrupted by environmental estrogens. Her laboratory is interested in the mechanisms by which exposure to environmental estrogens can advance puberty and impair fertility in females. She is a former investigator and post-doctoral researcher at the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences (formerly known as CIIT). Dr. Patisaul served on the World Health Organization expert panel that assessed the risks of bisphenol A in 2010. Patisaul received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2001.