Mark Blumberg

ark  Blumberg , F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988

Office: 
E234 SSH (Phone: 319-335-2424)
Lab: 
315 SLP (Phone: 319-353-3975)
Fax:  319-335-0191
Email:  mark-blumberg@uiowa.edu

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Research Interests

Developmental behavioral neuroscience; neural bases and function of sleep during development; contributions of sleep-related spontaneous activity to the development of the nervous system; development of biological rhythms; development and evolution of behavior.
 
 
Selected Publications
 
  • Blumberg, M. S. Freaks of nature: What anomalies tell us about development and evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Mohns, E. J., & Blumberg, M. S. Synchronous bursts of neuronal activity in the developing hippocampus: Modulation by active sleep and association with emerging gamma and theta rhythms. Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 10134-10144, 2008.
  • Marcano-Reik, A. J., & Blumberg, M. S. The corpus callosum modulates spindle-burst activity within homotopic regions of somatosensory cortex in newborn rats. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 1457-1466, 2008.
  • Blumberg, M. S. Basic Instinct: The genesis of behavior. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005.

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