Senior Research Specialist and Imaging Core Facility Manager
Education
B.S. University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Full CV here.
Selected Publications
De Biase, L.M., Kang, S.H., Baxi, E.G., Fukaya, M., Pucak, M.L., Mishina, M., Calabresi, P.A., and Bergles, D.E. (2011). NMDA receptor signaling in oligodendrocyte progenitors is not required for oligodendrogenesis and myelination. J. Neurosci. 31, 12650–12662.
Pucak, M.L., Carroll, K.A.L., Kerr, D.A., and Kaplin, A.I. (2007). Neuropsychiatric manifestations of depression in multiple sclerosis: neuroinflammatory, neuroendocrine, and neurotrophic mechanisms in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated depression. Dialogues Clin. Neurosci. 9, 125–139.
Kerr, D., Krishnan, C., Pucak, M.L., and Carmen, J. (2005). The immune system and neuropsychiatric diseases. Int. Rev. Psychiatry 17, 443–449.
Pucak, M.L., and Kaplin, A.I. (2005). Unkind cytokines: current evidence for the potential role of cytokines in immune-mediated depression. Int. Rev. Psychiatry 17, 477–483.
Contact information
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
725 North Wolfe Street, WBSB 1002 (Core Facility)
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410) 502-7858
Fax: (410) 955-6942
