Lisa R. Merlin
Distinguished Teaching; Professor Neurology
Physiology and Pharmacology
Suny Downstate Medical Center
United States of America
Biography
Lisa R. Merlin is Professor in the department of Physiology and Pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, United States of America.
Research Interest
Basic mechanisms of epileptogenesis Until now, treatment of epilepsy has been limited to the suppression of seizures. However, the holy grail of the epilepsy research community has been to find a cure for epilepsy. Toward this end, the key questions that need to be answered are: (1) How does normal brain become epileptic? and (2) Is it possible for epileptic brain to "normalize?" These have been the areas of my basic research endeavors.
Publications
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Merlin LR (2008) "TOR"rents of excitement over rapamycin's antiepileptogenic potential. Epilepsy Curr 8: 163-165.
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Fuortes MG, Faria LC, Merlin LR (2008) Impact of protein kinase C activation on epileptiform activity in the hippocampal slice. Epilepsy Res 82: 38-45.
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Merlin LR (2002) Differential roles for mGluR1 and mGluR5 in the persistent prolongation of epileptiform bursts. J Neurophysiol 87: 621-625.
