Jennifer Bizon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 

Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235

Office: 254 Psychology Building
email: jbizon@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-2506
Fax: (979) 845-4727



Research Interests

  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline
  • Neurogenesis and learning and memory
  • Trophic factor localization and regulation
  • Brain systems underlying learning strategy

Education

Ph.D., Department of Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, 1998

Recent Publications

Lauterborn, J., Bizon, J. L., Tien, M., Gall, C. (1995) NGF mRNA is expressed by GABAergic but not cholinergic neurons in rat basal forebrain. J. Comp. Neurol., 360: 454-462.

Bizon, J. L., Lauterborn, J, Isacson, P., Gall, C. (1996) Acidic Fibroblast growth factor is expressed by basal forebrain and striatal cholinergic neurons. J. Comp. Neurol., 366: 379-389.

Nicolle, M., Bizon, J. L., Gallagher, M. (1996) In vitro autoradiography of ionotropic glutamate receptors in hippocampus and striatum of aged Long-Evans rats: Relationship to spatial learning. Neuroscience, 74 (3): 741-756.

Bizon, J. L., Lauterborn, J. Gall, C. (1999) Trophic Factors are expressed by distinct populations of striatal interneurons. J. Comp. Neurol., 408(2): 283-98.

Bizon, J. L., Helm, K.A., Han, J.-S., Chun, H.-J., Pucilowski, J., Lund, P. K., Gallagher, M. (2001) Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function and corticosterone receptor expression in behaviorally characterized young and aged rats. Eur. J. Neursci. 14:1739-51.

Han, J.-S., Bizon, J. L., Chun, H.-J., Maus, CE, Gallagher, M. (2002) Decreased GR mRNA and dysfunction of HPA axis in rats after removal of the cholinergic innervation to hippocampus. Eur. J. Neursci. 16:1399-4004.

Gallagher, M., Bizon, J. L, Hoyt, E.C., Helm, K.A., Lund, P. K. (2003). Effects of aging on the hippocampal formation in a naturally occurring animal model of mild cognitive impairment. Exp. Gerontol. 38(1-2):71-7.

Bizon, J. L., Gallagher, M. (2003) Production of new cells in the rat dentate gyrus over the lifespan: relation to cognitive decline. Eur. J. Neurosci. 18:215-9.

Bizon, J. L., Han, J.-S., Hudon, C., Gallagher, M. (2003) Effects of hippocampal cholinergic deafferentation on learning strategy selection in a visible platform version of the water maze. Hippocampus. 13(6):676-684.

Nicolle, M., Prescott, S., Bizon, J.L. (2003) Emergence of a cue strategy on the water maze task in aged B6XSJL F1 hybrid mice. Learn. Mem. 10 (6): 520-4.

Bizon, J.L., Lee, H.-J., Gallagher, M. (2003) Greater neurogenesis occurs in cognitively-impaired aged rats. Submitted.

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