Paula Elyse Schauwecker , Ph.D.

Research Interests

Cellular, molecular-genetic basis for selective vulnerability to excitotoxic cell death / neuronal protection. Genetic determinants of excitotoxic cell death. Regulation of neuronal gene expression.

Degrees

University of Southern California, PhD, 1994
University of Southern California, MS, 1990
University of California, Irvine, BS, 1986

Fellowships

University of Virginia, 1994 - 1997

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

Memberships

Society for Neuroscience
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Epilepsy Society
American Association of Anatomists

Selected Publications

Schauwecker PE, Williams RW, Santos JB. Genetic control of sensitivity to hippocampal cell death induced by kainic acid: a quantitative trait loci analysis. J Comp Neurol. 2004 Sep 6;477(1):96-107.

Schauwecker PE. Genetic basis of kainate-induced excitotoxicity in mice: phenotypic modulation of seizure-induced cell death. Epilepsy Res. 2003 Aug;55(3):201-10.

Santos JB, Schauwecker PE. Protection provided by cyclosporin A against excitotoxic neuronal death is genotype dependent. Epilepsia. 2003 Aug;44(8):995-1002.

Schauwecker PE. Differences in ionotropic glutamate receptor subunit expression are not responsible for strain-dependent susceptibility to excitotoxin-induced injury. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2003 Apr 10;112(1-2):70-81.

Schauwecker PE. Modulation of cell death by mouse genotype: differential vulnerability to excitatory amino acid-induced lesions. Exp Neurol. 2002 Dec;178(2):219-35.

Schauwecker PE. Complications associated with genetic background effects in models of experimental epilepsy. Prog Brain Res. 2002;135:139-48. Review.