Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Neural Science
(812) 855-9679
pgarragh@indiana.edu

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1983

Post-doctoral work; Yale University School of Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 12/83-8/87

• Electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analyses of adult neural plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures
• Behavioral/cognitive analysis of the effects of antiepileptic drugs on learning and memory in animals and humans
• Secondary interests include sensory system development and comparative neuroanatomy

Schroeder, C.E., S. Seto, and P.E. Garraghty (1997) Emergence of radial nerve dominance in "median nerve cortex" after median nerve transection in an adult squirrel monkey.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 77: 522-526.

Sengelaub, D.R., N. Muja, A. Mills, W.A. Myers, J.D. Churchill, and P.E. Garraghty (1997) Denervation-induced sprouting of intact peripheral afferents into the cuneate nucleus of adult rats.
Brain Research, 769: 256-262.

Churchill, J.D, N. Muja, W.A. Myers, J. Besheer, and P.E. Garraghty (1998) Somatotopic consolidation: a third phase of reorganization after peripheral nerve injury in adult squirrel monkeys.
Experimental Brain Research, 118: 189-196.

Churchill, J.D., S.E. Voss, D.P. Miller, J.E. Steinmetz, and P.E. Garraghty (1998) Phenytoin blocks the reversal of a classically conditioned discriminative eyeblink response in rabbits.
Epilepsia, 39: 584-589.

Garraghty, P.E., A. Roe, and M. Sur (1998) Specification of retinogeniculate X and Y axon arbors in cats: fundamental differences in developmental programs.
Developmental Brain Research, 107: 227-231.

Myers, W.A., J.D. Churchill, N. Muja, and P.E. Garraghty (2000) The role of NMDA receptors in adult primate cortical somatosensory plasticity.
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 418: 373-382.

Banks, M.K., J. Besheer, J. Szypczak, L.L. Goodpaster, E.J. Phipps, and P.E. Garraghty (2001) The effects of carbamazepine on an appetitive-to-aversive transfer task: comparison to untreated and phenytoin.
Progress in Neuro-psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 25: 551-572.

Churchill, J.D., J.T. Green, S.E. Voss, E. Manley, J.E. Steinmetz, and P.E. Garraghty (2001) Discrimination reversal conditioning of an eyeblink response is impaired by NMDA receptor blockade.
Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 36: 62-74.

Churchill, J.D., L.L. Arnold, and P.E. Garraghty (2001) Somatotopic reorganization in the brainstem and thalamus following peripheral nerve injury in adult primates.
Brain Research, 910: 142-152.

Garraghty, P.E. (2002) Discovery of long-term potentiation.
In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, in press.

Garraghty, P.E. (2002) Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity.
In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, in press.