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Dr. BEN RICHARDSON
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Title
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Dr.
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First Name
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BEN
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Last Name
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RICHARDSON
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University/Institution
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University of Florida
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2173815522
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Email ID
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brichardson85@gmail.com
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City
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Gainesville
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United States
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State
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Florida
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32609
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Department
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Neuroscience
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Area of Research
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Neuroscience
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Area of Expertise
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Neurophysiology; protein trafficking, neurotransmission
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Brief Description of Research Interest :
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My research interests are generally focused on how the various components of the nervous system communicate and how that communication changes with experience, stress, age, disease, etc.
While the cortex is considered the master of all that we experience and do, an innumerable collection of neuroanatomical connections are responsible for shaping all information that is coded by the nervous system before it ever reaches the cortical level. Moreover, decoding of this received data in the cortex is just the beginning as the cortex has the ability to regulate much of the activity of thalamus and lower brain structures working to supply it with information. My interests lie in working out the details these connections which, in the end, govern how we perceive, interpret and engage with the world around us. I'm most interested in the connections and function of one region of the brain, the sensory thalamus, which functions as the filter of information entering the sensory cortices. However, while it first it's a seemingly simple brain structure, we are still learning much about how the thalamus functions and interacts with other brain regions to perform this extremely demanding task.
Lastly, one of the most notable attributes of the nervous system is that it is not static in how it forms its connections and rules for communication, but rather very plastic. This plasticity occurs across multiple layers, from the the gene level, to protein production and trafficking and to the reorganization of physical connections between individual and groups of neurons. One determinant of these plastic changes in neural function is the relative changes in activity at a given time and location. In particular, I am currently interested in the direct interaction of changes in single neuron voltage/membrane potential state with signalling mechanisms which may be working to drive protein trafficking and redistribution.
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Representative Publications :
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Richardson BD, Hancock KH, Caspary DM. (2013) Single unit novelty detection in auditory thalamus of awake rat. J Neurophys. 110(8):1892-902.
Richardson BD, Ling LL, Uteshev VV, Caspary DM. (2013) Reduced GABAAR-mediated tonic inhibition in aged rat auditory thalamus. J Neurosci. 33(3). 1218-1227.
Richardson BD, Brozoski TJ, Ling LL, Caspary DM. (2012) Targetinginhibitory neurotransmission in tinnitus. Brain Res. 1485:77-87.
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