Catherine Cusick, Ph.D.
University of Washington, Anatomy, 1979
Professor of Structural and Cellular Biology
Director of Medical Neuroscience
Email: cusick@tulane.edu
Functional organization of primate visual cortex; organization of superior temporal polysensory association cortex; effects of peripheral nerve injury on neurochemical and physiological organization of the visual and somatosensory systems.
Cola MG, Seltzer B, Preuss TM, Cusick CG. 2005. Neurochemical organization of chimpanzee inferior pulvinar complex. J. Comp. Neurol. 484:299-312.
Padberg J., Seltzer B., Cusick C.G. 2003. Architectonics and cortical connections of the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus in the rhesus monkey: an analysis in the tangential plane. J. Comp. Neurol. 467:418-34.
Gutierrez, C., Cola, M.G., Seltzer, B., and Cusick, C., 2000. Neurochemical and connectional organization of the dorsal pulvinar complex in monkeys. J. Comp. Neurol. 419:61-86.
Woods, T.M., Cusick, C.G., Pons, T.P., Taub, E., and Jones, E.G., 2000. Progressive transneuronal changes in the brainstem and thalamus after long-term dorsal rhizotomies in adult macaque monkeys. J. Neurosci. 20:3884-99.
Cola, M.G., Gray, D.N., Seltzer, B., and Cusick, C.G. 1999.Human thalamus: neurochemical mapping of inferior pulvinar complex. NeuroReport 10:3733-3738.
Gray, D.N., Gutierrez, C., Cusick, C.G. 1999.Neurochemical organization of inferior pulvinar complex in squirrel monkeys and macaques revealed by acetylcholinesterase histochemistry, calbindin and Cat-301 immunostaining, and Wisteria floribunda agglutinin binding. J. Comp. Neurol. 409(3):452-468.