Paula Croxson
Assistant professor
Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine
United States of America
Biography
Paula Croxson has been an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2013. Her laboratory focuses on the neural basis of memory, particularly the detailed autobiographical memories that are lost in patients with dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. Her work combines neuroscience techniques in order to study the changes that occur to the networks of brain regions responsible for these memories, the neurochemical basis of the changes, and how plasticity occurs in these systems. Paula carried out her undergraduate research at the University of Cambridge, U.K., and completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, U.K., where she held a Wellcome Trust 4-year Prize Studentship. She completed her postdoctoral training first at the University of Oxford and then at Mount Sinai, where she was awarded a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences.
Research Interest
Alzheimer's Disease, Behavior, Brain, Brain Imaging, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive Neuroscience, Comparative Anatomy, MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Neural Networks, Neuroscience, Prefrontal Cortex
Publications
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Baxter MG, Croxson PL (2013) Behavioral control by the orbital prefrontal cortex: reversal of fortune. Nature neuroscience Vol: 16.
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Croxson PL, Walton ME, Boorman ED, Rushworth MF, Bannerman DM (2014) Unilateral medial frontal cortex lesions cause a cognitive decision-making deficit in rats. The European journal of neuroscience 40: 3757-65.
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Mars RB, Foxley S, Verhagen L, Jbabdi S, Sallet J, etal (2015) The extreme capsule fiber complex in humans and macaque monkeys: a comparative diffusion MRI tractography study. Brain structure & function.
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Halene TB, Kozlenkov A, Jiang Y, Mitchell AC, Javidfar B, etal (2016) NeuN+ neuronal nuclei in non-human primate prefrontal cortex and subcortical white matter after clozapine exposure. Schizophrenia research Vol: 170.
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Kumar V, Croxson PL, Simonyan K (2016) Structural Organization of the Laryngeal Motor Cortical Network and Its Implication for Evolution of Speech Production. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Vol: 36.
