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Dr Brendan O'BRIEN
Lecturer
Email : B.OBrien@anu.edu.au
Phone : (02) 612 52803
Fax : (02) 612 50499
Office Location
Room 123, Department of Psychology (Building 39)
Mailing Address
Department of Psychology (Building 39) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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On this page...About Me
Research and Supervision Interests
Current Teaching
Research Students
Qualifications
Selected Publications
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About Me
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I am a self-confessed "Neuro-nerd." I love the brain and since I was a teenager I've been fascinated by how it works, how it can change and what happens when it all goes wrong. I started out my education studying Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa in the USA (BA, summa cum laude), and went straight on into a PhD program in Neurobiology & Behavior at the University of Washington. In Seattle, I developed my interest in the visual system studying how its neurons are all wired up in the primate brain. Even to this day, I'm still working on this topic but now I'm focussed on how our eyes work.
A more extensive biography can be found at: http://neuroscience.anu.edu.au/EIN_CIs/BrendanOBrien.html
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Research and Supervision Interests
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Visual Neuroscience
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Current Teaching
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PSYC1003: Introductory Psychology
PSYC2007 The Biological BAses of Behaviour
PSYC3016 Issues in Behavioural Neuroscience
PSYC3023 Special Topics: the Retina
Neuroscience Honours Committee
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Research Students
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Silvia Park (PhD student, University of Auckland)
Bronwyn Thomson (Psychology Honours)
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Qualifications
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BA Hons, Psychology, University of Northern Iowa
PhD (Neurobiology & Behaviour) University of Washington
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Selected Publications
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- O'Brien BJ, Caldwell JH, Ehring G, Bumsted O'Brien KM, Luo S & Levinson SR (2008) The TTX-resistant voltage gated sodium channels Nav1.8 and Nav1.9 are expressed in the CNS. J. Comp Neurol, 508, 940-951
- O'Brien BJ, Richardson R, Berson DM (2003) Inhibitory network properties shaping the light evoked responses of cat alpha retinal ganglion cells. Vis Neurosci, 20: 351-361.
- Kamphuis W, Dijk F & O'Brien BJ (2003) Gene expression of AMPA-type glutamate receptor subunits in rod-type ON-bipolar cells of rat retina. Eur J. Neurosci, 18: 1085-1092
- Habermann C, O'Brien BJ, Wässle H, Protti D (2003) Spiking AII amacrine cells express L-type calcium channels at their output synapses. J Neurosci, 23: 1604-1613
- van Rossum MCW, O'Brien BJ, Smith RG (2003) Effects of noise on the spike timing precision of retinal ganglion cells. J Neurophys 89: 2406-2419.
- O'Brien BJ, Isayama T, Richardson R, Berson DM (2002) Intrinsic physiological properties of cat retinal ganglion cells. J Physiol. - London, 538: 787-802.
- O'Brien BJ, Abel PL, Olavarria JF (2002) The organization of pulvino-cortical connectivity in macaque monkey. Thalamus & Related Systems, 1: 317-330.
- O'Brien BJ, Abel PL, Olavarria JF (2001) The retinal input to calbindin-D28k-defined subdivisions in macaque inferior pulvinar. Neurosci Lett, 312: 145-148
- Abel PL, O'Brien BJ, Olavarria JF (2000) Organization of callosal linkages in visual area V2 of macaque monkey. J Comp Neurol, 428: 278-293
- O'Brien BJ, Abel PL, Olavarria JF (1997) A morphological anomaly of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in Macaca fascicularis. Cell & Tiss Res, 289: 11-16
- Abel PL, O'Brien BJ, Lia B, Olavarria JF (1997) The distribution of neurons projecting to the superior colliculus correlates with thick cytochrome oxidase stripes in macaque visual area V2. J Comp Neurol, 377: 313-323.
- O'Brien BJ, Olavarria JF (1995) Anomalous patterns of callosal connections develop in visual cortex of monocularly enucleated hamsters. Biol Res, 28: 211-218
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