| PROJECTS |
SUPERVISORS |
| Studies of cortical
motor function using transcranial magnetic
stimulation |
Geoff Hammond
(Psychology) |
| Event-related potential studies of
brain function. |
Geoff
Hammond and Allison Fox
(Psychology) |
| Evoked potential
correlates of selective attentional processes in
hearing |
Don
Robertson (Physiology), Geoff Hammond and Allison Fox
(Psychology) |
| Do olivocochlear efferents play a
role in auditory adaptation? |
Don
Robertson and Helmy Mulders
(Physiology) |
| Purinergic
regulation of the endocochlear potential. |
Don
Robertson (Physiology) |
| Use of pseudorabies virus (PRV) as a
novel transneuronal tracer to map neural circuitry involved
in bladder functioning in both intact and injured rat
spinal cord |
Dr. Marc
J. Ruitenberg, and Dr Giles W. Plant (Red’s Spinal
Cord Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human
Biology, The University of
WA.) |
| Tryptophan
depletion in patients with SSRI-remitted anxiety
disorders. |
Mathew
Martin-Iverson (Medicine & Pharmacology) and Sean Hood
(Psychiatry & Clinical
Neurosciences) |
| Basic Memory Processes
in the Severely Affected Alzheimer’s Patient |
Mathew
Martin-Iverson and Ralph
Martins |
|
Neonatal exposure to stress hormones in
rats: effects on adult models of schizophrenia. |
Mathew
Martin-Iverson |
| Cannabinoid receptor
and glucocorticoid receptor interactions in prepulse
inhibition of the startle reflex. |
Mathew
Martin-Iverson |
|
A novel approach to measuring prepulse
inhibition in patients with schizophrenia and relatively
healthy controls |
Mathew
Martin-Iverson |
| Serotonin regulation
of the human stress response. |
Mathew
Martin-Iverson (Medicine & Pharmacology) and Sean Hood
(Psychiatry & Clinical
Neurosciences) |
|
Neurotrauma:The influence of training on
axon pathfinding during optic nerve regeneration. |
A/Prof Sarah
Dunlop, Dr LisaTee, Prof Lyn
Beazley |
| Diabetic
Retinopathy:Choroidal neovascularisation in a VEGF
transgenic mouse |
A/Prof
Sarah Dunlop, Dr Jamie O’Shea, Prof Piroska
Rakoczy |
|
Neural Therapeutics: The effects of a
neuroprotective molecule on retinal structure and the
retinal vasculature after optic nerve crush in
rodents |
Dr Carolyn
King, Professor Lyn Beazley |
| Naltrexone as a long
term strategy for heroin addiction: The effects of
maternally administered naltrexone on the developing
brain |
A/Prof
Sarah Dunlop, Dr Carolyn King, Dr Sean Hood, Professor Gary
Hulse |
Projects with Professor
Alan Harvey
Professor Harvey's research is in neuroscience, with a
particular emphasis on cell and tissue transplantation,
gene therapy and the repair of central nervous tissue
damaged after injury. Ways are being tested for
preventing nerve cells from dying after injury and
promoting the regenerative growth of damaged nerve
processes. The specificity of axon/target cell
reconnection after injury is of particular interest. The
potential for replacing compromised cells with new
healthy cells is also under investigation. Studies are
mostly carried out in the visual system and in the spinal
cord.
Research projects directed towards addressing any of
these issues can be discussed with individual students if
they wish to contact Professor Harvey.
|
| Tracing the
corticospinal pathways in the rat |
Alan Harvey and
Plant |
| Semaphorins in the
visual system |
Alan Harvey and
Ruitenberg |