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Craig Powell, MD, PhD
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
craig.powell@utsouthwestern.edu
To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.
Biography
Dr. Craig M. Powell earned both his M.D. with honor and Ph.D. in Neuroscience research at Baylor College of Medicine in 1994 and 1997 respectively. His graduate work with Drs. David Sweatt and Dan Johnston was among the first studies to measure lasting biochemical changes during long-lasting synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. After his Medical Internship year at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Powell trained at the University of California, San Francisco Neurology Residency Program. In his final year, Dr. Powell was chosen to be the Chief Resident in the UCSF Neurology Program. Dr. Powell was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate as well as to Alpha Omega Alpha medical Honor society in medical school.
Currently, Dr. Powell is a tenured Associate Professor at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Depts. of Neurology & Neurotherapeutics and Psychiatry and an active member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program. His basic laboratory research is focused on the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory, synaptic plasticity, and neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism, mental retardation, and Alzheimer’s. Dr. Powell's clinical Neurology practice is on the inpatient Neurology services at the University Hospitals and Parkland Memorial Hospital. Dr. Powell also supervises and teaches Neurology Residents as they see patients at the Parkland Memorial Hospital outpatient clinics.
Education
| Residency | University of California at San Francisco, Neurology (2001) |
| Internship | Baylor College of Medicine, Transitional Year (1998) |
| Medical School | Baylor College of Medicine (1997) |
| Graduate School | Baylor College of Medicine, Neuroscience (1994) |
Research Interests
Publications
Tabuchi, K., Blundell, J., Etherton, M.R., Hammer, R.E., Liu, X., Powell, C.M., & Sudhof, T.C. , Science , October 2007; (318):71-76
Blundell J, Blaiss CA, Lagace DC, Eisch AJ, Powell CM, Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2011 May; 95 (4):453-60
Bangash MA, Park JM, Melnikova T, Wang D, Jeon SK, Lee D, Syeda S, Kim J, Kouser M, Schwartz J, Cui Y, Zhao X, Speed HE, Kee SE, Tu JC, Hu JH, Petralia RS, Linden DJ, Powell CM, Savonenko A, Xiao B, Worley PF, Cell, 2011 May; 145 (5):758-72
Blaiss CA, Yu TS, Zhang G, Chen J, Dimchev G, Parada LF, Powell CM, Kernie SG, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011 Mar; 31 (13):4906-16
Blundell J, Blaiss CA, Etherton MR, Espinosa F, Tabuchi K, Walz C, Bolliger MF, Südhof TC, Powell CM, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010 Feb; 30 (6):2115-29
Blundell J, Kaeser PS, Südhof TC, Powell CM, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010 Apr; 30 (15):5326-33
Blundell, J., Blaiss, C.A., Etherton, M.R., Espinosa, F., Tabuchi, K., Walz, C., Bolliger, M.F., Sudhof, T.C., & Powell, C.M. , Journal of Neuroscience , 2010; (in press)
Etherton MR, Blaiss CA, Powell CM, Südhof TC, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009 Oct; 106 (42):17998-8003
Zhou J, Blundell J, Ogawa S, Kwon CH, Zhang W, Sinton C, Powell CM, Parada LF, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009 Feb; 29 (6):1773-83
Blundell J, Tabuchi K, Bolliger MF, Blaiss CA, Brose N, Liu X, Südhof TC, Powell CM, Genes, brain, and behavior, 2009 Feb; 8 (1):114-26
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Honors/Awards
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National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression basic research grant (2003)
National Institute of Mental Health basic research grant (2003)
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