Jeffery A. Boychuk

Assistant Professor

Pathobiology and Integrative Biomedical Sciences,

jboychuk@missouri.edu

Dr. Boychuk’s research program seeks to understand the functional determinants of cortical circuit repair and reorganization following brain insult, seizures, vascular injury and neurodegeneration. This laboratory performs multi-month tracking of behavioral and cellular recovery processes for motor cortex and hippocampus using a diverse set of outcome measures. Approaches routinely employ neurophysiological techniques to study the synaptic circuitry and membrane properties of neurons and test their responses to various stimuli including electrical stimulation. The long-term goal of these endeavors is to identify cell mechanisms that can provide impactful therapeutic benefit when targeted to improve outcomes from the aforementioned pathologies. Often these studies incorporate models of altered metabolism and immune signaling to better understand how this integrative physiology impacts long-term recovery.