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DR NIGEL JONES



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals
Position: RESEARCH ASSISTANT
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Work: 8344 6729
Room: 428
Level: 04
Building: Clinical Sciences
Campus: Royal Melbourne Hospital

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Epilepsy Epilepsy models and stress-associated psychopathology Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Monash University 31-Oct-1995
Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science and Pharmaclogy (Honours) Monash University 31-Oct-1997
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 03-Jun-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Stress and epilepsy Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009
Psychiatric comorbidity in a model of epilepsy Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009
Mood disorders in epilepsy Chief Investigator NHMRC Career Development Awards 29/10/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A regulatory role for protease-activated receptor-2 in motivational learning in rats
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
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  • Anxiolytic effects of rapid amygdala kindling, and the influence of early life experience in rats
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
    Volume: 203
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 81-87
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  • Morphometric abnormalities and hyperanxiety in genetically epileptic rats: A model of psychiatric comorbidity?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 267-274
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  • NMDA receptor hypofunction leads to generalized and persistent aberrant gamma oscillations independent of hyperlocomotion and the state of consciousness
    Year: 2009
    Journal: PLoS One
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: e6755
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Elevated anxiety and depressive-like behavior in a rat model of genetic generalized epilepsy suggesting common causation


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 209
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 254-60
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  • Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury Induces a Pervasive Hyperanxious Phenotype in Rats
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Neurotrauma
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 1367-1374
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Early postnatal stress confers enduring vulnerability to Limbic Epileptogenesis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2079-2085
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  • The acceleration of amygdala kindling epileptogenesis by chronic low-dose corticosterone involves both mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 834-842
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • G-CSF suppresses edema formation and reduces interleukin-1β expression after cerebral ischemia in mice


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 763-769
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  • Antagonism of the interleukin-1 receptor following traumatic brain injury in the mouse reduces the number of nitric oxide synthase-2-positive cells and improves anatomical and functional outcomes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 72-78
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  • The neuroprotective effect of progesterone after traumatic brain injury in male mice is independent of both the inflammatory respnse and growth factor expression
    Year: 2005
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 1-8
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A detrimental role for nitric oxide synthase-2 in the pathology resulting from acute cerebral injury
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
    Volume: 63
    Page numbers: 708-720
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