Rachael Blackman

Former Member of the
Brain Sciences Center

Brain Sciences Center (BSC)

A research group in collaboration with the Minnesota American Legion, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, and the University of Minnesota.

Publications

  1. Zick JL, Blackman R, Crowe D, Amirikian B, DeNicola A, Netoff TI, & Chafee M (2018, June) Blocking NMDAR Disrupts Spike Timing and Decouples Monkey Prefrontal Circuits: Implications for Activity-Dependent Disconnection in Schizophrenia Neuron 98(6) 1243-1255.e5 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.05.010
  2. Blackman R, Crowe D, DeNicola A, Sakellaridi S, MacDonald III AW, & Chafee M (2016, April) Monkey Prefrontal Neurons Reflect Logical Operations for Cognitive Control in a Variant of the AX Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT) Journal of Neuroscience 36(14) 4067-4079 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3578-15.2016
  3. Crowe D, Goodwin SJ, Blackman R, Sakellaridi S, Sponheim S, MacDonald III AW, & Chafee M (2013, September) Prefrontal neurons transmit signals to parietal neurons that reflect executive control of cognition Nature Neuroscience 161484-1491 10.1038/nn.3509
  4. Blackman R, MacDonald III AW, & Chafee M (2013, May) Effects of Ketamine on Context-Processing Performance in Monkeys: A New Animal Model of Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia Neuropsychopharmacology 382090-2100 10.1038/npp.2013.118
  5. Goodwin SJ, Blackman R, Sakellaridi S, & Chafee M (2012, March) Executive Control Over Cognition: Stronger and Earlier Rule-Based Modulation of Spatial Category Signals in Prefrontal Cortex Relative to Parietal Cortex Journal of Neuroscience 32(10) 3499-3515 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3585-11.2012