Laura M. McGarry, MD, PhD

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MD - New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Child and Adult Neurology - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pediatrics - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
PhD in Neuroscience and Physiology - New York University, New York, NY
Resident
McGarry, L.M. & Goldberg, E.M. (2021). The course of inhibition never did run smooth: parvalbumin interneuron dysfunction in a mouse model of lissencephaly. Epilepsy Currents, 21(4):287-89. PMID: 34690569
Baimel, C., McGarry, L.M. & Carter, A.G. (2019). The projection targets of medium spiny neurons govern cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens. Cell Reports, 28(9): 2256-2263. PMID: 31461643
McGarry, L. M. & Carter, A.G. (2017). Prefrontal cortex drives distinct projection neurons in the basolateral amygdala. Cell Reports, 21(6): 1426:1433. PMID: 29117549
McGarry, L. M. & Carter, A.G. (2016). Inhibitory gating of basolateral amygdala inputs to the prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(36): 9391-9406. PMID: 27605614
Zhao, M., McGarry, L.M., Ma, H., Harris, S., Yuste, R., & Schwartz, T. (2015). Optically triggering seizures using caged RuBi-4-Aminopyridine. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, 25. PMID: 25698919
Santana, R., McGarry, L. M., Bielza, C., Larranaga, P., & Yuste, R. (2013). Classification of neocortical interneurons using affinity propagation. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 7, 185. PMID: 24348339
Guerra, L., McGarry, L. M., Robles, V., Bielza, C., Larranaga, P., & Yuste, R. (2011). Comparison between supervised and unsupervised classifications of neuronal cell types: a case study. Developmental Neurobiology, 71(1): 71-82. PMID:21154911
Woodruff, A. R., McGarry, L. M., Vogels, T. P., Inan, M., Anderson, S. A., & Yuste, R. (2011). State-dependent function of neocortical chandelier cells. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(49): 17872-17886. PMID: 22159102
McGarry, L. M., Packer, A. M., Fino, E., Nikolenko, V., Sippy, T., & Yuste, R. (2010). Quantitative classification of somatostatin-positive neocortical interneurons identifies three interneuron subtypes. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 4, 12. PMID: 20617186
McGarry, L.M. & Carter, A.G. (2019). Synaptic organization of the reciprocal circuit linking the prefrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala of the mouse. American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
2019, American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Extended Neuroscience Award
2016-2018, Gordon Research Seminar Chair
2016-2017, GSAS Dean’s Student Travel Grant Award
2016-2018, Sackler Travel Grant Award
2014-2015, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Training Grant Award
2014, NYU President’s Service Award- Harm Reduction Club
2009, HHMI Student Fellowship, Columbia University
2008, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Columbia University
2006-2010, Astor Presidential Scholarship, Columbia College