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Millersville University Biology Department |
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Education:
B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse
Courses Taught:
BIOL 100 -- General Biology
BIOL 154 / 155 -- Human Anatomy and Physiology
BIOL 438 -- Neurobiology
BIOL 211 -- Concepts of Zoology
BIOL 356 -- Functional Human Anatomy
Areas of Specialization:
Neuroscience, Physiology
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Research Interest(s):
I am a sensorimotor systems neuroscientist. My research
is aimed at understanding the neural control of movement
and somatosensation. I use primarily neuroanatomical
techniques to reveal the organization of sensorimotor
pathways and connections in the cerebral cortex, thalamus,
basal ganglia, cerebellum, and spinal cord of mammals.
Most of my recent work has focused on the basal ganglia,
an area deep in the brain that is dysfunctional in Parkinson's
disease, Huntington's chorea, and schizophrenia. My
experiments are conducted in collaboration with Millersville
University students and investigators at Hershey Medical
Center.
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Selected Publication(s):
Hoffer, Z.S, J.E. Hoover, and K.D. Alloway (2003) Sensorimotor corticocortical projections from rat barrel cortex have an anisotropic organization that facilitates integration of inputs from whiskers in the same row. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 466:525-544.
Alloway, K.D., Z.S. Hoffer, and J.E. Hoover (2003). Quantitative comparisons of the topographic organization in the ventrobasal complex and posterior nucleus of the rodent thalamus. Brain Research, 96:54-68.
Hoover, J.E., Z. Hoffer, K.D. Alloway (2003) Projections from primary somatosensory cortex to the neostriatum: the role of somatotopic continuity in corticostriatal convergence. Journal of Neurophysiology, 89:1576-1587.
2000.
Overlapping corticostriatal projections from the rodent
vibrissal representations in primary and secondary
somatosensory cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology,
426:51-67. (with K. Alloway, J. Mutic, and Z. Hoffer).
1999. The organization of cerebellar and basal ganglia
outputs to primary motor cortex as revealed by retrograde
transneuronal transport of herpes simplex virus type
1. Journal of Neuroscience, 19(4):1446-1463. ( with
P.L. Strick).
1998.
Divergent corticostriatal projections from a single
cortical column in the somatosensory cortex of rats.
Brain Research, 785(2):341-346. (with K.D. Alloway
and J.J. Mutic).
1996.
The organization of acromiodeltoid and spinodeltoid
motor nuclei in rat spinal cord. Brain Research, 738:
146-149. (with J.Y. Choi).
1994.
Input to the primate frontal eye field from the substantia
nigra, superior colliculus, and dentate nucleus demonstrated
by transneuronal transport. Experimental Brain Research,
100: 181-186. (with J.C. Lynch and P.L. Strick).
1993.
Multiple output channels in the basal ganglia. Science,
259: 819-821. (with P. L. Strick).
1993.
Evidence for "output channels" in the cerebellum
and basal ganglia. In: Role of the Cerebellum and
Basal Ganglia in Voluntary Movement. N. Mano, I. Hamada,
M.R. DeLong (Eds.). Elsevier Science Publishers, p.
171-180. (with P.L Strick and H. Mushiake).
1992.
Retrograde labeling of lumbosacral interneurons following
injections of red and green fluorescent microspheres
into hindlimb motor nuclei of the cat. Somatosensory
and Motor Research, 9: 211-226. (with R.G. Durkovic).
1991.
Morphological relationships among extensor digitorum
longus, tibialis anterior, and semitendinosus motor
nuclei of the cat: an investigation employing the
retrograde transport of multiple fluorescent tracers.
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 303: 255-266. (with
R.G. Durkovic).
1988.
Retention of a backward classically conditioned reflex
response in the spinal cat. Experimental Brain Research,
77: 621-627. (with R.G. Durkovic).
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