Research
Brain Trauma: plasticity, blood flow & metabolism, neurogenesis, PET, MRI
Appointments
- Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
- Member, Brain Research Institute
- Cell & Developmental Biology GPB Home Area
- Neuroscience GPB Home Area
Biography
Dr. Neil Harris has worked within the fields of hydrocephalus, stroke and traumatic brain injury. The major theme of his current research at UCLA is understanding the potential for plasticity and function after trauma utilizing both light microscopy cell biology techniques as well as in vivo neuroimaging methodologies.
Dr. Harris holds an RO1 award to examine axonal plasticity and functional recovery after traumatic brain injury.
Publications
- Le Belle, JE, Condro, M, Cepeda, C, Oikonomou, KD, Tessema, K, Dudley, L et al.. Acute rapamycin treatment reveals novel mechanisms of behavioral, physiological, and functional dysfunction in a maternal inflammation mouse model of autism and sensory over-responsivity. bioRxiv. 2024; :. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.08.602602. PubMed PMID:39026891 PubMed Central PMC11257517.
- Santana-Gomez, C, Smith, G, Mousavi, A, Shamas, M, Harris, NG, Staba, R et al.. The Surgical Method of Craniectomy Differentially Affects Acute Seizures, Brain Deformation and Behavior in a TBI Animal Model. bioRxiv. 2024; :. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.28.601257. PubMed PMID:39005303 PubMed Central PMC11244902.
- Fox, R, Santana-Gomez, C, Shamas, M, Pavade, A, Staba, R, Harris, NG et al.. Different Trajectories of Functional Connectivity Captured with Gamma-Event Coupling and Broadband Measures of EEG in the Rat Fluid Percussion Injury Model. bioRxiv. 2024; :. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.02.597056. PubMed PMID:38895342 PubMed Central PMC11185526.
- Quach, M, Ali, I, Shultz, SR, Casillas-Espinosa, PM, Hudson, MR, Jones, NC et al.. ComBating inter-site differences in field strength: harmonizing preclinical traumatic brain injury MRI data. NMR Biomed. 2024;37 (8):e5142. doi: 10.1002/nbm.5142. PubMed PMID:38494895 .
- Smith, G, Thapak, P, Paydar, A, Ying, Z, Gomez-Pinilla, F, Harris, NG et al.. Altering the Trajectory of Perfusion-Diffusion Deficits Using A BDNF Mimetic Acutely After TBI is Associated with Improved Functional Connectivity. Prog Neurobiol (Dover). 2023;10 (1):. doi: 10.60124/j.pneuro.2023.10.07. PubMed PMID:38037566 PubMed Central PMC10689006.