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Cynthia Rittenhouse

Title	Research Assistant Prof (Part-Time)
Institution	School of Medicine and Dentistry
Department	Neurobiology and Anatomy
Address	University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 603 Rochester NY 14642

Awards And Honors

1979	-	1981	New York State Board of Regents Scholarship.
1992	-	1993	MacArthur Foundation Research Fellowship, Harvard Medical School.
1993			Travel Award for Research Excellence by a Trainee, Sleep Research Society.
1994	-	1996	Selected Faculty-Graduate Student Representative, Dept. of Neuroscience, Brown University.
1994	-	1995	NRSA Training Program in Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience, Graduate Fellowship.
1994			Selected Participant, McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, UC Davis.
1995			Selected Participant and Speaker, Teaching Survival Skills & Ethics, University of Pittsburgh.
1998			R.B. Lindsay Graduate Fellowship, Brown University.
2000	-	2001	NRSA Training Program in Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience, Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2001	-	2003	Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2003			Gordon Conference Participant, "Excitatory Amino Acids and Brain Function".

Selected Publications

Pesavento MJ, Rittenhouse CD, Pinto DJ. Response sensitivity of barrel neuron subpopulations to simulated thalamic input. J Neurophysiol. 2010 Jun; 103(6):3001-16.

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Rittenhouse CD, Siegler BA, Voelker CC, Voelker CA, Shouval HZ, Paradiso MA, Bear MF. Stimulus for rapid ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex. J Neurophysiol. 2006 May; 95(5):2947-50.

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Bear MF, Rittenhouse CD. Molecular basis for induction of ocular dominance plasticity. J Neurobiol. 1999 Oct; 41(1):83-91.

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Stickgold R, Scott L, Rittenhouse C, Hobson JA. Sleep-induced changes in associative memory. J Cogn Neurosci. 1999 Mar; 11(2):182-93.

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Rittenhouse CD, Shouval HZ, Paradiso MA, Bear MF. Monocular deprivation induces homosynaptic long-term depression in visual cortex. Nature. 1999 Jan 28; 397(6717):347-50.

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Rossi AF, Rittenhouse CD, Paradiso MA. The representation of brightness in primary visual cortex. Science. 1996 Aug 23; 273(5278):1104-7.

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Ajilore O, Stickgold R, Rittenhouse CD, Hobson JA. Nightcap: laboratory and home-based evaluation of a portable sleep monitor. Psychophysiology. 1995 Jan; 32(1):92-8.

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Quattrochi JJ, Mamelak A, Binder DK, Williams J, Rittenhouse C, Hobson JA. Dynamic suppression of REM sleep by parenteral administration of the serotonin-1 agonist eltoprazine. Sleep. 1992 Apr; 15(2):125-32.

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