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Laura M. McGarry, MD, PhD

About Laura M. McGarry, MD, PhD

Titles

Resident

Awards and Honors

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

Education & training

Graduate Degree

PhD in Neuroscience and Physiology - New York University, New York, NY

Medical Degree

MD - New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Residency

Child and Adult Neurology - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pediatrics - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Team affiliations

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Publications

Publications

2021

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

2019

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2013

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

2011

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

2010

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

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