Neuroscience Program   
Tulane University Neuroscience Program
FACULTY
neuroscience
Catherine Cusick, Ph.D.
Professor of Structural and Cellular Biology and
Director of Medical Neuroscience

Catherine G. Cusick, Ph.D., Research Interests

and

Representative Publications

University of Washington, Anatomy, 1979.

Professor of Structural and Cellular Biology, Director of Medical Neuroscience. Functional organization of primate visual cortex; organization of superior temporal polysensory association cortex; effects of peripheral nerve injury on neurochemical and physiological organization of the visual and somatosensory systems. (E-MAIL add.: cusick@tulane.edu)

  • Padberg J., Seltzer B., Cusick C.G. 2003. Architectonics and cortical connections of the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus in the rhesus monkey: an analysis in the tangential plane. J. Comp. Neurol. 467:418-34.
  • Gutierrez, C., Cola, M.G., Seltzer, B., and Cusick, C., 2000. Neurochemical and connectional organization of the dorsal pulvinar complex in monkeys. J. Comp. Neurol. 419:61-86.
  • Woods, T.M., Cusick, C.G., Pons, T.P., Taub, E., and Jones, E.G., 2000. Progressive transneuronal changes in the brainstem and thalamus after long-term dorsal rhizotomies in adult macaque monkeys. J. Neurosci. 20:3884-99.
  • Cola, M.G., Gray, D.N., Seltzer, B., and Cusick, C.G. Human thalamus: neurochemical mapping of inferior pulvinar complex. NeuroReport 10:3733-3738, 1999.
  • Gray, D.N., Gutierrez, C., Cusick, C.G. Neurochemical organization of inferior pulvinar complex in squirrel monkeys and macaques revealed by acetylcholinesterase histochemistry, calbindin and Cat-301 immunostaining, and Wisteria floribunda agglutinin binding. J. Comp. Neurol. 409(3):452-468, 1999.


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