Neuroscientists Trained in the Aging & Memory Research Lab

Former Doctoral students from the lab.
Each earned their PhD in Cognition & Neuroscience.
Year graduated & dissertation titles listed.

Tracy Greer

Tracy Greer, 2001
Use of eyeblink classical
conditioning & latent
inhibition paradigms in
assessment of cognitive
function in clinical
depression.

Patricia Blau

Patricia Blau, 2002
Diazepam tolerance effects
on vestibular function tests
following repeated oral
doses.

Chris Gant

Chris Gant, 2003
Neuronal excitability,
learning and aging in the
rat hippocampus.

Wendy Bui

Wendy Bui, 2006
Ca2+-dependent K+
currents underlying the AHP
in rat hippocampal CA1
neurons.

Tim Goble

Tim Goble, 2007
Hippocampal place-field
stability and plasticity
induced in a model of
tinnitus.

Tabi Seif

Tabi Seif, 2007
D-cycloserine enhances
postsynaptic excitability in
vitro: Novel & conserved
mechanisms.

Gef Farmer

Gef Farmer, 2012
Comparing learning-
dependent plasticity in
pyramidal cells of the
amygdala and the
hippocampus across
different learning tasks.

Elissa Donzis

Elissa Donzis, 2013
Conditioned fear modulates
place-field stability in
hippocampal place cells
through activity of the
basolateral amygdala.

Lynda Willmott

Lynda Willmott, 2013
Comparing direct- and
indirect-block of Ca²+-
dependent K+ channels on
learning: Sex and task-
dependent differences.

Eric Lovitz

Eric Lovitz, 2015
Beta-adrengergic
modulation of the amygdala
via modulation of AHPs
in the hippocampus.

Erica Underwood

Erica Underwood, 2016
Sex-dependent effects
of a high-fat diet on
spatial memory, peripheral
metabolism, hippocampal
intrinsic excitability, and
neuronal insulin sensitivity.

Eyeblink subject

Eyeblink conditioning,
non-depressed young
human subject

Besides PhD students, I also have the pleasure of working with students in these other fine programs: