Catherine G. Cusick, Ph.D.
Professor
Course Director, Medical Neuroscience
cusick@tulane.edu

Research Interests:

Visual and somatic sensory neuroscience; functional organization of association cortex; neurophysiological plasticity in the adult nervous system; effect of injury on neuropeptide and neurotransmitter gene expression.

Publications:

Cusick, C.G. The superior temporal polysensory region in monkeys. In: Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 14, Extrastriate Cortex in Primates. Rockland et al., Eds., Plenunm Press, New York, pp. 435-468, 1997, (In Press).
Gutierrez, C., and Cusick, C.G. Area V1 in macaque monkeys projects to multiple histochemically defined subdivisions of inferior pulvinar. Brain Research, 765:349-356, 1997.
Gray, D., Gutierrez, C., and Cusick, C.G. Neurochemical organization of inferior pulvinar in squirrel monkeys and macaques revealed by acetylcholinesterase histochemistry, calbindin and Cat-301 immunostaining, and Wisteria floribunda agglutinin binding. 1997, (Submitted).
Preuss, T.M., Gray, D., and Cusick, C.G. Wisteria floribunda agglutinin histochemistry reveals thalamic nuclear divisions in primates. 1997, (Submitted).