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Name:
Glen T. Prusky
Phone:
(403) 329-5161
E-mail:
prusky@uleth.ca
Office:
EP 1220
Lab:
EP 1213
Degrees:
Ph.D. - Dalhousie
M.Sc. - Dalhousie
B.Sc. - University of Lethbridge
Biography:
I was born and raised in southern Alberta and attended the University of Lethbridge as an undergraduate. I completed a M.Sc. (1985) and PhD. In Psychology at Dalhousie University (1989) with Dr. Max Cynader. I was an NSERC and MRC postdoctoral at Yale University with Dr. Martha Constantine-Paton from 1990-1993. I was hired by the University of Lethbridge Department of Psychology and Neuroscience in 1993, where I am now a full Professor. My research interests include experience-dependent plasticity of the visual system, retinal degenerative disease, and visual memory.
Recent
Publications:

Prusky GT, Alam NM, Douglas RM. Enhancement of vision by monocular deprivation in adult mice. J Neurosci. 2006 Nov 8;26(45):11554-61.

Douglas RM, Neve A, Quittenbaum JP, Alam NM, Prusky GT. Perception of visual motion coherence by rats and mice. Vision Res. 2006 Sep;46(18):2842-7. Epub 2006 May 2.

Bennett BM, Reynolds JN, Prusky GT, Douglas RM, Sutherland RJ, Thatcher GR.
Cognitive Deficits in Rats after Forebrain Cholinergic Depletion are Reversed by a Novel NO Mimetic Nitrate Ester. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2006 Mar 8; [Epub ahead of print]

Douglas RM, Alam NM, Silver BD, McGill TJ, Tschetter WW, Prusky GT. Independent visual threshold measurements in the two eyes of freely moving rats and mice using a virtual-reality optokinetic system. Vis Neurosci. 2005 Sep-Oct;22(5):677-84.

Driscoll I, Howard SR, Prusky GT, Rudy JW, Sutherland RJ. Seahorse wins all races: hippocampus participates in both linear and non-linear visual discrimination learning.
Behav Brain Res. 2005 Oct 14;164(1):29-35.

Prusky, G.T., Alam, N., Beekman, S. and Douglas, R.M. (2004) Rapid quantification of adult and developing mouse spatial vision using a virtual optomotor system. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science (in press).

Driscol, I., Sutherland, R.J., Prusky, G.T. and Rudy, J.W. (2004) Damage to the hippocampal formation does not disrupt representational flexibility as measured by a novelty transfer test. Behavioral Neuroscience (in press).

Prusky, G.T. and Douglas, R.M. (2004) Characterization of mouse cortical spatial vision. Vision Research 44/28, 3411-3418.

McGill, T..J., Bin, L., Wang, S., Douglas R.M., Lund, R.D. and Prusky, G.T. (2004) Preservation of vision following cell-based therapies in a model of retinal degenerative disease. Vision Research , 44, 2559-2566.

Liao, D.S., Krahe, T., Prusky, G.T., Medina, A. and Ramoa, A.S. (2004) Recovery of deprived eye responses after the critical period for ocular dominance plasticity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 4, 2113-21.

Prusky, G.T., Douglas, R.M., Nelson, L., Shabanpoor, A. and Sutherland, R.J. (2004) Novel visual memory task for rats reveals an essential role for hippocampus in episodic memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101, 5064-5068.

McGill, T.J., Douglas, R.M., Lund, R.D., Prusky, G.T. (2004) Quantification of spatial vision in the RCS rat. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science 45, 932-936.

Prusky, G.T. and Douglas, R.M. (2003) Developmental plasticity of mouse visual acuity. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 167-173.

Prusky, G.T., Harker, K.T., Douglas, R.M. and Whishaw, I.Q. (2002) Variation in visual acuity within pigmented, and between pigmented and albino rat strains. Behavioral Brain Research, in press.