Postdoctoral Fellow

Neuroscience

Office: 060 Wilson Hall
Phone: 615-322-5245
Fax: 615-343-8449
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Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Calgary (2009)
• M.Sc. University of Calgary (2004)
• B.Sc. Dalhousie University (2002)

Research Area

• cortical reorganization, cortical motor system, epilepsy and seizure models

Professional Societies

• Society for Neuroscience
• American Epilepsy Society
• Canadian League Against Epilepsy

Professional Honors

• 2009 Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Achievement- Ph.D. thesis award
• 2007 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Studentship
• 2004 National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship
• 2004, 2005 Dean's Research Excellence Award
• 2003 Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship
• 2002 Epilepsy Canada Summer Studentship

Representative Publications

• Young, N.A., Vuong, J., Ozen, L.J., Flynn, C. & Teskey, G.C. (2009). Motor map expansion in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy is dependent on seizure severity and rat strain. Experimental Neurology 217: 421-428.
• Dunn J.F., Teskey, G.C., Young, N.A., Henderson, A.K., Jackson, J.C., Kmech, J, Tuor, U.I. (2009). Functional brain mapping at 9.4T using a new MRI compatible electrode chronically implanted in rats. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 61(1): 222-228.
• Motor maps, seizures and behaviour. (2008). Teskey, G.C., Monfils, M.H., Flynn, C. Young, N.A., van Rooyen, F., Henry, L.C., Ozen, L.J., Henderson, A.K., Reid, A.Y., Brown, A.R. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 62(2): 132-139.
• Ozen, L.J., Young, N.A., Koshimori, Y. & Teskey, G.C. (2008). Low frequency stimulation reverses kindling-induced neocortical motor map expansion. Neuroscience 153(1): 300-307.
• Teskey, G.C., Young, N.A., van Rooyen, F., Larson, S.E.M., Flynn, C., Monfils, M.H., Kleim, J.A., Henry, L.C. & Goertzen, C.D. (2007). Induction of neocortical long-term depression results in smaller movement representations, fewer perforated excitatory synapses and more inhibitory synapses. Cerebral Cortex 17: 434-442.
• van Rooyen, F, Young, N.A., Larson, S.E.M. & Teskey, G.C. (2006). Hippocampal kindling leads to motor map expansion. Epilepsia 47(8), 1383-91.
• Young, N.A., Teskey, G.C., Henry, L.C. & Edwards, H.E. (2006). Exogenous antenatal glucocorticoid treatment reduces seizure susceptibility against hippocampal kindled and maximal seizures in infant rats. Experimental Neurology 198 (2), 303-12.
• Young, N.A., Wintink, A.J., & Kalynchuk, L.E. (2004). Environmental enrichment facilitates amygdala kindling but reduces kindling-induced fear in male rats. Behavioral Neuroscience 118(5), 1128-1133.
• Teskey GC, Flynn C, Goertzen, C.D., Monfils, M.H., Young, N.A. (2003). Cortical stimulation improves skilled forelimb use following a focal ischemic infarct in the rat. Neurological Research. Dec;25(8):794-800.
• Wintink, A.J., Young, N.A., Davis, A.C., Gregus, A., & Kalynchuk, L.E. (2003). Kindling-induced emotional behavior in male and female rats. Behavioral Neuroscience 117(3), 632-640.