Education

• Undergraduate: University of Missouri, 1998
• Graduate: University of Missouri, 2006
• Medical School: University of Missouri, 2006

Contact

University of Iowa
Department of Neurosurgery
200 Hawkins Drive, 1 JPP
Iowa City, IA 52242-1061
adam-w-jackson@uiowa.edu

Research Interests

• Initiation of locomotion from higher locomotor areas in the brain
• Coordination of locomotor activity by central pattern generators in the spinal cord
• Recovery of locomotor function following CNS injury

Selected Publications

Jackson AW, Pino FA, Wiebe ED, McClellan AD.  Movements and muscle activity initiated by brain locomotor areas in semi-intact preparations from larval lamprey. J Neurophysiology 2007 May;97(5):3229-41

Jackson AW, Horinek DF, Boyd MR, McClellan AD.  Disruption of left-right reciprocal coupling in the spinal cord of larval lamprey abolishes brain initiated locomotor activity.  J Neurophysiology 2005 Sep;94(3):2031-44

Paggett KC, Jackson AW, McClellan AD. Organization of higher-order brain areas that initiate locomotor activity in larval lamprey. Neuroscience. 2004;125(1):25-33

Kracke, G.R., N. Kuratani, R.K. Shaon, J. Ogden, J.M. Durbin, W.C. Mills, J.M. Koch, A. Jackson.  General anesthetics activate resting potassium efflux in unmyelinated nerve fibers.  In “Progress in Anesthetic Mechanisms”. Edited by K. Ogli. Vol. 6, 2000

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