Dr Megan Jackson
BSc
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Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Establishing research partnership in novel rodent home-cage monitoring techniques for improved translational neuroscience research
Principal Investigator
Description
Animal models of neurodegenerative/neuropsychiatric disease require extensive behavioural testing to support translational drug development. However, there are limitations associated with some conventional behavioural methods, including high sensitivity to environmental factors…Managing organisational unit
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & NeuroscienceDates
11/06/2023 to 16/06/2023
8051 OAFI SWBio Doctoral Career Development Fund
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & NeuroscienceDates
01/05/2022 to 31/10/2022
Publications
Recent publications
28/05/2024Characterisation of behaviours relevant to apathy syndrome in the aged male rat
Behavioural Brain Research
Validation of a non-food or water motivated effort-based foraging task as a measure of motivational state in male mice
Neuropsychopharmacology
Pharmacological characterisation of the effort for reward task as a measure of motivation for reward in male mice
Psychopharmacology
Modelling falls in Parkinson’s disease and normal ageing in mice using a complex motor task
Brain and Neuroscience Advances
The importance of a multidimensional approach to the preclinical study of major depressive disorder and apathy
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
Thesis
The Investigation of Age-related Changes in Apathy-related Behaviour and Biological Rhythms
Supervisors
Award date
25/01/2022
Related people
Professor Stafford Lightman
Professor of Medicine
Bristol Medical School (THS)
Professor Emma Robinson
Professor of Psychopharmacology
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Professor Emily Henderson
Professor of Ageing and Movement Disorders
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Justyna Hinchcliffe
Senior Research Associate
School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience