Undergraduate Cornell University Year of Entry into UCI MSTP 2005 Research Interests post-traumatic temporal lobe epilepsy, hippocampus, interneurons, cannabinoids Hobbies and Interests music, swimming, fun... Hometown Denver, CO Website

 

Lab Rotations Completed

Lab Advisor Frances Chance Department Neurobiology Academic Quarter Summer 2005 Project Topic Computational Neuroscience Project Abstract I learned about computational modeling of sensory motor loops, and how to use MATLAB

Lab Advisor Ron Frostig Department Neurobiology & Behavior Academic Quarter Summer, 2006 Project Topic intrinsic signal optical imaging/cell tracing in rat somatosensory cortex Project Abstract I worked in this lab for one summer.

Lab Advisor Ivan Soltesz Department Anatomy & Neurobiology Academic Quarter Summer 2007 Project Topic Interneuronal neurogliaform cell recording from the Dentate Gyrus in rats with concussive brain injury Project Abstract I am currently working on this project

 

 

PUBLICATIONS
Armstrong CM, DeVito LM, Cleland TA, One-trial Associative Odor Learning in Neonatal Mice. Chemical Senses(2006), 31(4): 343-349.
Echegoyen J, Armstrong C, Morgan RJ, Soltesz I., Single application of a CB1 receptor antagonist rapidly following head injury prevents long-term hyperexcitability in a rat model.. Epilepsy Research(2009), 85(1):123-7.
Armstrong C, Morgan RJ, Soltesz I., Pursuing paradoxical proconvulsant prophylaxis for epileptogenesis.. Epilepsia(2009), 50(7):1657–1669.