Alexandra B. Nelson, Ph.D., M.D.

Affiliations: 
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 
Area:
Basal ganglia, neurophysiology
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Parents

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Sascha du Lac grad student 2000-2004 UCSD
 (Regulation of intrinsic excitability in vestibular nucleus neurons.)
Anatol C. Kreitzer post-doc 2010- UCSF

Children

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Allison E. Girasole grad student UCSF
Michael B. Ryan grad student 2015- UCSF
Matt M. McGregor grad student 2016- UCSF
Jonathan S. Schor grad student 2016- UCSF
Rodrigo Manuel Paz post-doc
Xiaowen Zhuang post-doc 2021- UCSF
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Seiler JL, Zhuang X, Nelson AB, et al. (2024) Dopamine across timescales and cell types: Relevance for phenotypes in Parkinson's disease progression. Experimental Neurology. 374: 114693
Schor JS, Gonzalez Montalvo I, Spratt PWE, et al. (2022) Therapeutic deep brain stimulation disrupts movement-related subthalamic nucleus activity in Parkinsonian mice. Elife. 11
Nelson AB, Girasole AE, Lee HY, et al. (2022) Striatal indirect pathway dysfunction underlies motor deficits in a mouse model of paroxysmal dyskinesia. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience
Schonewille M, Girasole AE, Rostaing P, et al. (2021) NMDARs in granule cells contribute to parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synaptic plasticity and motor learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118
Loewke AC, Minerva AR, Nelson AB, et al. (2021) Fronto-striatal projections regulate innate avoidance behavior. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience
McGregor MM, Nelson AB. (2020) Directly to the Point: Dopamine Persistently Enhances Excitability of Direct Pathway Striatal Neurons. Neuron. 106: 201-203
McGregor MM, McKinsey GL, Girasole AE, et al. (2019) Functionally Distinct Connectivity of Developmentally Targeted Striosome Neurons. Cell Reports. 29: 1419-1428.e5
Schor JS, Nelson AB. (2019) Multiple stimulation parameters influence efficacy of deep brain stimulation in parkinsonian mice. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130
McGregor MM, Nelson AB. (2019) Circuit Mechanisms of Parkinson's Disease. Neuron. 101: 1042-1056
Ryan MB, Bair-Marshall C, Nelson AB. (2018) Aberrant Striatal Activity in Parkinsonism and Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia. Cell Reports. 23: 3438-3446.e5
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