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Mark Graham Baxter, PhD

Mark Graham Baxter, PhD

  • Professor, Pathology - Comparative Medicine

Research Interests

  • Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
  • Brain Aging
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Learning and Memory
Education
Johns Hopkins University, 1993
Johns Hopkins University, 1993
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1997
Positions
Professor, Pathology - Comparative Medicine
Professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
Departments and Affiliations
Pathology - Comparative Medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Physiology and Pharmacology

Research

  • Publications
  • Cognitive Recovery by Decade in Healthy 40- to 80-Year-Old Volunteers After Anesthesia Without Surgery. Baxter MG, Mincer JS, Brallier JW, Schwartz A, Ahn H, Nir T, McCormick PJ, Ismail M, Sewell M, Allore HG, Ramsey CM, Sano M, Deiner SG. Anesth Analg. 2022 Feb; 134(2):389-399.
  • Temporal emergence of age-associated changes in cognitive and physical function in vervets (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus). Frye BM, Valure PM, Craft S, Baxter MG, Scott C, Wise-Walden S, Bissinger DW, Register HM, Copeland C, Jorgensen MJ, Justice JN, Kritchevsky SB, Register TC, Shively CA. Geroscience. 2021 Feb;
  • Effect of chemogenetic actuator drugs on prefrontal cortex-dependent working memory in nonhuman primates. Upright NA, Baxter MG. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 Oct; 45(11):1793-1798.
  • Oligomeric Aß in the monkey brain impacts synaptic integrity and induces accelerated cortical aging. Beckman D, Ott S, Donis-Cox K, Janssen WG, Bliss-Moreau E, Rudebeck PH, Baxter MG, Morrison JH. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Dec; 116(52):26239-46.
  • Behavioral Effect of Chemogenetic Inhibition Is Directly Related to Receptor Transduction Levels in Rhesus Monkeys. Upright NA, Brookshire SW, Schnebelen W, Damatac CG, Hof PR, Browning PGF, Croxson PL, Rudebeck PH, Baxter MG. J Neurosci. 2018 Sep; 38(37):7969-7975.
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Research Interests

  • Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
  • Brain Aging
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Learning and Memory
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