Amy Brewster
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Amy Brewster, is employed as an Assistant Professor of Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. Her research interests include: to study mechanisms that underlie molecular and structural dendritic alterations, seizures, and behavioral deficits in epilepsy. She received her PhD from University of California-Irvine, 2006
Research Interest
To study mechanisms that underlie molecular and structural dendritic alterations, seizures, and behavioral deficits in epilepsT
Publications
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Brewster AL, Marzec K, Hairston A, Ho M, Anderson AE, et al. (2016). Early electrographic and molecular remodeling in a model of status epilepticus and acquired epilepsy. Epilepsia 7: 1907-1915.
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Nguyen LH, Brewster AL, Clark M, Regnier-Golanov A, Sunnen NC, et al. (2015). mTOR inhibition suppresses established epilepsy in the NS-Pten knockout mouse model of cortical dysplasia. Epilepsia 56: 636-46.
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Sierra A, S Valcarcel-Martin R, Pascual-Brazo J, Aelvoet SA, Brewster AL, et al. (2015). Induction of reactive neural stem cells and impairment of hippocampal neurogenesis due to neuronal hyperactivity. Cell Stem Cell 16: 488-503.
