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Neuroscience Program
Neuroscience Program

Kyle Baumbauer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle Baumbauer, Ph.D.

 

Education

2005 Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Kent State University
Dissertation title: The role of neurokinin 1 and neurokinin 2 receptors in spinally
mediated instrumental learning.

2002 M.A., Experimental Psychology, Kent State University
Thesis title: Functional significance of a shock-induced antinociceptive response in
spinal rats.

2000 B.A., Sociology, University of Central Florida

1999 B.S, Psychology, University of Central Florida

 

Academic Positions

2011- Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

2008-2011 Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience Program, Texas A&M University

2005-2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience Program, Texas A&M University

2000-2005 Graduate Research Assistant/Teaching Fellow, Kent State University

1999 Data Collection Intern, University of South Florida/Florida Mental Health Institute, Schizophrenia Care and Assessment Program

 

Publications

Baumbauer, K.M., Anderson, M.J., & Riccio, D.C. (2002). State dependent retention: The relevance of internal context. In R.W. Flint, Jr. (Ed.), Forget it? Sources, theories, & mechanisms of alterations in mnemonic function (pp. 39-50). North Chelmsford, MA: Courier Custom Publishing, Inc.

Baumbauer, K.M., Young, E.E., Hoy, K.C., Jr., France, J.L., & Joynes, R.L. (2006). Intrathecal infusions of anisomycin impact the learning deficit but not the learning effect observed in spinal rats that have received instrumental training. Behavioural Brain Research, 173, 299-309.

Baumbauer, K.M., Young, E.E., Hoy, K.C., Jr., Abood, A., & Joynes, R.L. (2007). Administration of a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) inhibitor reverses the noncontingent shock learning deficit observed in spinal rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 570-578.

Baumbauer, K.M., Young, E.E., Hoy, K.C., Jr., & Joynes, R.L. (2007). Intrathecal administration of neurokinin 1 and neurokinin 2 receptor antagonists undermines the savings effect in spinal rats trained in an instrumental learning paradigm. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 186-199.

Baumbauer, K.M., Young, E.E., Hoy, K.C., Jr., & Joynes, R.L. (2007). Neurokinin receptors modulate the impact of uncontrollable stimulation on adaptive spinal plasticity. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 1082-1094.

Gómez-Pinilla, F., Huie, J. R., Ying, Z., Ferguson, A.R., Crown, E.D., Baumbauer, K.M., Edgerton, V.R.,& Grau, J.W. (2007). BDNF and Learning: Evidence that instrumental training promotes learning within the spinal cord by up-regulating BDNF expression. Neuroscience, 148, 893-906.

Young, E.E., Baumbauer, K.M., Elliott, A.E., & Joynes, R.L. (2007). Lipopolysaccharide induces a spinal learning deficit that is blocked by IL-1 receptor antagonism. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 21, 748-757.
**Highlighted in the 8/07 issue of BBI and accompanied by an invited
commentary by Dr. Terence Deak (SUNY-Binghamton).

Young, E.E., Baumbauer, K.M., Elliot, A., & Joynes, R.L. (2007). Neonatal injury disrupts acquisition of an instrumental response in adult spinal rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 1095-1100.

Young, E.E., Baumbauer, K.M., Hillyer, J.E., & Joynes, R.L. (2007). Local anesthetic treatment significantly attenuates acute pain responding but does not prevent the neonatal injury-induced reduction in adult spinal behavioral plasticity. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 1073-1081.

Young, E.E., Baumbauer, K.M., Hillyer, J.E., Patterson, A.M., Hoy, K.C., Jr., Mintz, E.M., & Joynes, R.L. (2008). The neonatal injury-induced spinal learning deficit in adult rats: Central mechanisms. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 589-600.

Baumbauer, K.M., Hoy, K.C., Jr., Huie, J.R., Hughes, A.J., Woller, S.A., Puga, D.A., Setlow, B., & Grau, J.W. (2008). Timing in the Absence of Supraspinal Input I: Variable, but not Fixed, Spaced Stimulation of the Sciatic Nerve Undermines Spinally-Mediated Instrumental Learning. Neuroscience, 155, 1030-1047.
**Evaluated by Dr. Kent Berridge for Faculty of 1000 Biology. Kent Berridge: Faculty of 1000 Biology, 28 Oct 2008 www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1123485/evaluation

Baumbauer, K.M., Huie, J.R., Hughes, A.J., & Grau, J.W. (2009). Timing in the Absence of Supraspinal Input II: Regular spaced stimulation induces a lasting alteration in spinal unction that depends on the NMDA receptor, protein synthesis, and BDNF. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 14383-14393.
**This Week in the Journal featured article.
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/29/46/i

Baumbauer, K.M., Young, E.E., & Joynes, R.L. (2009). Pain and learning in a spinal system: Contradictory outcomes from Common Origins. Brain Research Reviews, 61, 124-143.
**Featured on MDLinx.com, 10 Oct 2009 http://www.mdlinx.com/internalmdlinx/newsarticle.
cfm/2916554

Vichaya, E.G., Baumbauer, K.M., Carcoba, L.M., Grau, J.W, & Meagher, M.W. (2009). Spinal glia modulate both adaptive ad physiological processes. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 23, 969-976.

Baumbauer, K.M., & Grau, J.W. (2011). Timing in the Absence of Supraspinal Input III: Regularly Spaced Cutaneous Stimulation Prevents and Reverses the Spinal Learning Deficit Produced by Peripheral Inflammation. Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, 37-45.

Baumbauer, K.M., Lee, K.H., Puga, D.A., Hughes, A.J., & Grau, J.W. (2012). The Impact of Intermittent Stimulation on Tactile Reactivity in Spinally Transected Rats Depends on Temporal Regularity: Only Fixed Spaced Shock Induces Hyporeactivity and Attenuates the Enhanced Mechanical Reactivity (EMR) Induced by Peripheral Capsaicin. Neuroscience, 227, 119-133.

Ferguson, A.R., Huie, J.R., Crown, E.D., Baumbauer, K.M., Hook, M.A., Garraway, S.M., Lee, K.H., Hoy, K.C., & Grau, J.W. (2012). Maladaptive spinal plasticity opposes spinal learning and recovery in spinal cord injury. Frontiers in Integrative Physiology. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00399

Grau, J.W., Huie, J.R., Garraway, S.M., Hook, M.A., Crown, E.D., Baumbauer, K.M., Lee, K.H., Hoy, K.C., & Ferguson, A.R. (2012). Impact of a behavioral control on the processing of nociceptive stimulation within the dorsal horn. Frontiers in Integrative Physiology, 3, 1-21.

Huie, J.R., Garraway, S.M., Baumbauer, K.M., Hoy, K.C., Jr., Beas, B.S., Montgomery, K.S., Bizon, J.L.,& Grau, J.W. (2012). Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promotes adaptive plasticity within the spinal cord and mediates the beneficial effects of controllable stimulation. Neuroscience, 200, 74-90.

Huie, J.R., Baumbauer, K.M., Lee, K.H., Beattie, M.S., Bresnahan, J.C., Ferguson, A.R., & Grau, J.W. (2012). Glial tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) generates metaplastic inhibition of spinal learning. PLoS ONE, 7, e39751. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039751.