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Research Profile - Carl L. Faingold, Ph.D.  
   
Department/Division:     Email Address:
Pharmacology cfaingold@siumed.edu
Office Location:     Location of Laboratory:
801 N. Rutledge, Room 3289A Springfield   801 N. Rutledge, Room 3246
Office Phone Number:     Laboratory Phone Number:
217-545-2185     217-545-2206
Willing to mentor medical students and / or residents? Yes
Research Interests: neuronal networks, alcohol, epilepsy, seizure, inferior colliculus, reticular formation, substantia nigra, amygdala
Techniques and Methodologies: in vivo neuronal recording; focal brain injetions; brain slice neurophysiology

Equipment:

polygraph, patch clamp set-up, oscilloscope, stereotaxic device
Current Collaborators:
M. Steve Evans, M.D.
Current and Pending Awards:

Current:

IDPA
PI: Faingold, Carl
Integrative Neurobiology of Alcohol Withdrawal

Publications:    

Raisinghani, M. and Faingold, C.L., Pontine reticular formation neurons are implicated in the neuronal network for generalized clonic seizures which is intensified by audiogenic kindling. Brain Res. 1064 (1-2), 90-99, 2005.

Raisinghani, M. and Faingold, C.L., Neurons in the amygdala play an important role in the neuronal network mediating a clonic form of audiogenic seizures both before and after audiogenic kindling. Brain Res. 1032:131-140, 2005.

Spier, A.W., Toth, L.A. and Faingold, C.L., Clinical patent ductus arteriosus in adult genetically epilepsy-prone rats. Comp Med. 55 (1):85-91, 2005.

Raisinghani, M. and Faingold, C.L., Evidence for the perirhinal cortex as a requisite component in the seizure network following seizure repetition in an inherited form of generalized clonic seizures. Brain Res. 1048(1-2):193-201, 2005.

Tupal, S. and Faingold, C.L., Evidence supporting a role of serotonin in modulation of sudden death induced by seizures in DBA/2 mice. Epilepsia 47 (1), 21-26, 2006.

Faingold, C.L., The midbrain and audiogenic seizures. In: The Inferior Colliculus (J.A. Winer and C.E. Schreiner, Eds.) Springer, New York, 2005, pp. 603-625.

Faingold, C.L., Emergent properties of CNS neuronal networks as targets for pharmacology: application to anticonvulsant drug action. Progress in Neurobiology 72:55-85, 2004.

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