Stephen Hall
PhD Student 
Primary Supervisor: Mark Cunningham
Research group: Miles Whittington’s group
- Email: stephen.hall@ncl.ac.uk
Introduction and area of work:
I graduated with a 2:1 in Pharmacology and went on to do my masters degree in research at Newcastle University. I currently have a MRC CASE studentship, working alongside GlaxoSmithKline entitled:
The Pharmacological Specificity of Interneuron Subtypes Underlying Network Rhythms Disrupted in Entorhinal Cortex in Schizophrenia.
My work is based around neuronal network oscillations and focuses on the entorhinal cortex. The entorhinal cortex is known to be a major input/output centre for the hippocampus and could have a key role to play in Schizophrenia. My current work will pursue this idea by using both extracellular and intracellular field potential recording, specifically in the gamma frequency range (20-80Hz). This means I can record from either a single neuron or from a brain region, giving us an overall perspective of the entorhinal cortex and its role in psychiatric illness.
Qualifications:
BSc Pharmacology, University of Sunderland.
MRes Medical and Molecular Biology, Newcastle University
Publications and conferences:
Frequency dynamics in rodent entorhinal cortex and Hippocampus in vitro.
British Neurosci. Assoc. Abstr., vol. 20, 2009.
