Dr. Kyle Baumbauer

Assistant Research Scientist
Ph.D., Kent State University (2005)

Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235

Office: 270 Psychology Building
email: baumbauer@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-0378
Fax: (979) 845-4727

I am interested in learning across different levels of the neural axis, specifically the neurobiological mechanisms that support this type of plastic change. The majority of my research focuses on the ability of animals with spinal lesions to demonstrate instrumental learning, and how the information gleaned from these experiments increases our understanding of the neurobiology of rehabilitation.

American Psychological Association Committee on Animal Research & Ethics (CARE) Imprinting-Interdivisional Mentoring Fellowship Award

American Psychological Association Dissertation Award

ONTAP Teaching Fellow, Kent State University

Young, E.E., Baumbauer, K.M., Hillyer, J.E., & Joynes, R.L. (2007). Local anesthetic treatment significantly attenuates acute pain responding but does not prevent the neonatal injury-induced reduction in adult spinal behavioral plasticity. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 1073-1081.

Young, E.E., Baumbauer, K.M., Hillyer, J.E., Patterson, A.M., Hoy, K.C., Jr., Mintz, E.M., & Joynes, R.L. (2008). The neonatal injury-induced spinal learning deficit in adult rats: Central mechanisms. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 589-600.

Baumbauer, K.M., Hoy, K.C., Jr., Huie, J.R., Hughes, A.J., Woller, S.A., Puga, D.A., Setlow, B., & Grau, J.W. (2008). Timing in the Absence of Supraspinal Input I: Variable, but not Fixed, Spaced Stimulation of the Sciatic Nerve Undermines Spinally-Mediated Instrumental Learning. Neuroscience, 155, 1030-1047.

Baumbauer, K.M., Young, E.E., & Joynes, R.L. (2009). Pain and learning in a spinal system: Contradictory outcomes from Common Origins. Brain Research Reviews, 61, 124-143.

Baumbauer, K.M., Huie, J.R., Hughes, A.J., & Grau, J.W. (2009). Timing in the Absence of Supraspinal Input II: Regular spaced stimulation induces a lasting alteration in spinal unction that depends on the NMDA receptor, protein synthesis, and BDNF. Journal of Neuroscience.

Vichaya, E.G., Baumbauer, K.M., Carcoba, L.M., Grau, J.W, & Meagher, M.W. (2009). Spinal glia modulate both adaptive ad physiological processes. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity.

PSYC 107: Introduction to Psychology

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