Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Center Co-Director
Dr. Krook-Magnuson's lab focuses on cell-type diversity, inhibition, and neuronal networks. Her lab investigates cerebellar connectivity and the cerebellum's role in healthy cognition, epilepsy, and tremor.
Research from Dr. Krook-Magnuson's lab has shown that on-demand optogenetic manipulation of the cerebellum can inhibit temporal lobe seizures in a mouse model of epilepsy, that the cerebellum can alter hippocampal function in healthy animals, including the encoding of objects in space, and that a genetic mutation selectively expressed in cerebellar Purkinje cells is sufficient to induce a tremor phenotype.
