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Mark Graham Baxter, PhD
Mark Graham Baxter, PhD
Professor,
Comparative Medicine, Pathology (Winston-Salem)
Mark Graham Baxter, PhD
Professor, Comparative Medicine, Pathology (Winston-Salem)
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, Comparative Medicine, Pathology (Winston-Salem)
Professor, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Internal Medicine (Winston-Salem)
Professor, Translational Neuroscience (Winston-Salem)
Departments and Affiliations
Comparative Medicine, Pathology (Winston-Salem)
Gerontology and Geriatrics, Internal Medicine (Winston-Salem)
Translational Neuroscience (Winston-Salem)
Research
Publications
Neuropsychology of cognitive aging in rhesus monkeys.
Baxter MG, Roberts MT, Roberts JA, Rapp PR. Neurobiol Aging. 2023 Oct; 130:40-49.
Neonatal exposures to sevoflurane in rhesus monkeys alter synaptic ultrastructure in later life.
Fehr T, Janssen WGM, Park J, Baxter MG. iScience. 2022 Dec; 25(12):105685.
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.
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