McDonald, Robert

Faculty

Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN)

Phone
(403) 394-3983
Email
r.mcdonald@uleth.ca
Lab
Phone
(403) 394-3955

Publications


Craig, L.A., Hong, N.S., and McDonald, R.J. (2011) The cholinergic hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease revisited. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 35, 1397-1409.

McDonald, R.J., Hong, N.S., and Craig, L. A. (2010) The etiology of Alzheimer's disease is more complicated than we think. Behavioural Brain Research, 214, 3-11.

Zelinski, E., Hong, N.S., and McDonald, R.J. (2010) Prefrontal cortical contributions during discriminative fear conditioning, extinction, and spontaneous recovery in rats. Experimental Brain Research, 203, 285-297.

Craig, L.A., Hong, N.S., and McDonald, R.J. (2008) Reduced cholinergic status in hippocampus produces spatial memory deficits when combined with kainic acid induced seizures. Hippocampus, 18, 1112-1121.

McDonald, R.J., King, A.L., and Hong, N.S. (2008) Neurotoxic damage to the medial striatum enhances the behavioural influence of a context-specific inhibitory association mediated by the ventral hippocampus. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 27-35.

Craig, L.A., and McDonald, R.J. (2008) Chronic disruption of circadian rhythms impairs hippocampal memory in the rat. Brain Research Bulletin, 76, 141-151.

Yim, T.T., Hong, N.S., McKenna, J., and McDonald, R.J. (2008) Post-training CB1 agonist activation disrupts long-term consolidation of spatial memories in hippocampus. Neuroscience, 151, 929-936.

Research Interests


-organization of learning and memory in the mammalian brain



-functional contributions of prefrontal cortex



-effects of circadian dysfunction on brain and body



-etiology of the sporadic form of Alzheimer's disease