MATTHEW DAVID MCECHRON

Summary

Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Perinatal nutritional iron deficiency reduces hippocampal synaptic transmission but does not impair short- or long-term synaptic plasticity
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Science, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Nutr Neurosci 8:277-85. 2005
  2. ncbi Perinatal nutritional iron deficiency impairs hippocampus-dependent trace eyeblink conditioning in rats
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Dev Neurosci 30:243-54. 2008
  3. ncbi Single neurons in CA1 hippocampus encode trace interval duration during trace heart rate (fear) conditioning in rabbit
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Physiology and Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
    J Neurosci 23:1535-47. 2003
  4. ncbi Trace fear conditioning is reduced in the aging rat
    Matthew D McEchron
    Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Neurobiol Learn Mem 82:71-6. 2004
  5. ncbi Perinatal nutritional iron deficiency permanently impairs hippocampus-dependent trace fear conditioning in rats
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Science, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Nutr Neurosci 8:195-206. 2005
  6. ncbi Single neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat exhibit tonic and phasic coding during trace fear conditioning
    Marieke R Gilmartin
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Behav Neurosci 119:1496-510. 2005
  7. ncbi Single neurons in the dentate gyrus and CA1 of the hippocampus exhibit inverse patterns of encoding during trace fear conditioning
    Marieke R Gilmartin
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Behav Neurosci 119:164-79. 2005
  8. ncbi Altered eyeblink reflex conditioning in restless legs syndrome patients
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Sleep Med 11:314-9. 2010

Research Grants

  1. Iron deficiency, hippocampal development, and learning
    MATTHEW MCECHRON; Fiscal Year: 2004
  2. Iron nutrition and impaired development of cerebellum-dependent motor learning
    MATTHEW MCECHRON; Fiscal Year: 2007
  3. Iron nutrition and impaired hippocampal development
    MATTHEW MCECHRON; Fiscal Year: 2007

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Perinatal nutritional iron deficiency reduces hippocampal synaptic transmission but does not impair short- or long-term synaptic plasticity
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Science, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Nutr Neurosci 8:277-85. 2005
    ..This suggests that ID-induced learning deficits may be the result of reductions in synaptic transmission throughout the hippocampus, and possibly in other learning and memory centers...
  2. ncbi Perinatal nutritional iron deficiency impairs hippocampus-dependent trace eyeblink conditioning in rats
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Dev Neurosci 30:243-54. 2008
    ..This study suggests that perinatal ID impairs motoric learning by altering higher-order learning centers like the hippocampus more so than by altering the skeletal motor system...
  3. ncbi Single neurons in CA1 hippocampus encode trace interval duration during trace heart rate (fear) conditioning in rabbit
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Physiology and Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
    J Neurosci 23:1535-47. 2003
    ..The percentage of neurons encoding trace duration was largest when rabbits exhibited significant fear responses to the CS, suggesting that trace encoding was related to the strength of the CS and US association...
  4. ncbi Trace fear conditioning is reduced in the aging rat
    Matthew D McEchron
    Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Neurobiol Learn Mem 82:71-6. 2004
    ..These data show that HR and freezing are effective measures for detecting aging-related deficits in trace fear conditioning...
  5. ncbi Perinatal nutritional iron deficiency permanently impairs hippocampus-dependent trace fear conditioning in rats
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Science, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Nutr Neurosci 8:195-206. 2005
    ..The ID-induced learning impairments in this study, however, were not due to altered motor activity because learning was assessed using non-motor heart rate responses...
  6. ncbi Single neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat exhibit tonic and phasic coding during trace fear conditioning
    Marieke R Gilmartin
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Behav Neurosci 119:1496-510. 2005
    ..These sustained prelimbic responses may provide a bridging code that allows for overlapping representations of CS and US information within the trace fear conditioning circuit...
  7. ncbi Single neurons in the dentate gyrus and CA1 of the hippocampus exhibit inverse patterns of encoding during trace fear conditioning
    Marieke R Gilmartin
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Behav Neurosci 119:164-79. 2005
    ..Correlation analyses showed that DG and CA1 units exhibit inverse patterns of responding to the CS during trace fear conditioning...
  8. ncbi Altered eyeblink reflex conditioning in restless legs syndrome patients
    Matthew D McEchron
    Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    Sleep Med 11:314-9. 2010
    ..This led us to determine if RLS patients show alterations in a sensory-motor reflex conditioning task called differential eyeblink conditioning...

Research Grants4

  1. Iron deficiency, hippocampal development, and learning
    MATTHEW MCECHRON; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..Experiment 3 will determine if ID during postnatal development produces long-term impairments in hippocampal neurogenesis and hippocampus-dependent learning in young adult rats. ..
  2. Iron nutrition and impaired development of cerebellum-dependent motor learning
    MATTHEW MCECHRON; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Moreover, eyeblink conditioning is often used in humans; therefore, this animal learning proposal could be critical for future eyeblink conditioning studies with ID in humans. ..
  3. Iron nutrition and impaired hippocampal development
    MATTHEW MCECHRON; Fiscal Year: 2007
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