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B.A. (Psychology & Neuroscience) - Wake Forest Univ.
Ph.D. Candidate (dual degree) - Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology & Program in Biomedical Neuroscience
Lab Phone: (617) 414-2656 Fax Number: (617) 638-4329

Email: tmstew@bu.edu

T. Stewart

Research Interests

Generally, my work is centered on investigating the role of the alpha5-containing GABA-A receptor in learning and memory. I'm interested in elucidating its contribution to cognitive deficits associated with normal aging, neurodegenerative diseases (eg. Alzheimer's disease), and other disorders (eg. anxiety and schizophrenia) that affect learning and memory function. I take an interdisciplinary approach employing in vivo electrophysiological techniques that allow me to record from hundreds of hippocampal neurons in awake, behaving rats, while investigating experimental therapeutics for enhancing cognition. My career goal is to be an integrative systems pharmacologist within the pharmaceutical industry, so that I may have the opportunity to help develop better treatments for those with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.