Dr. Jim Houk
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Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago IL
Office Address: Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611 Phone: (312) 503-8219 / Fax: (312) 503-5101 Email: j-houk@northwestern.edu URL: http://www.physio.northwestern.edu/Secondlevel/Houk.html
Degree History:
1957 - 1961 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
1961 - 1963 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1963 - 1966 Ph.D. in Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Professional Experience:
1978 – present Professor of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School
1979 – present Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, School of Engineering
1978 - 2001 Chair of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School
1973 - 1978 Associate Professor of Physiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1975 Adjunct Professor of Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1969 - 1973 Assistant Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School
1971 - 1973 Instructor, MIT
1967 - 1968 Postdoctoral Fellow with Elwood Henneman, Harvard Medical School
1966 - 1967 Postdoctoral Fellow with Yve Laport, Faculté de Médecine, Toulouse, France
1962 & 1964 Research Associate with Jose DelCastillo, School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1961 - 1963 Research Associate with Larry Stark, MIT
Some Publications:
Houk JC (2005) Agents of the mind. Biological Cybernetics 92: 427-437.
Houk JC, Mugnaini E. (2002) Chapter 32 on Cerebellum, in Squire’s textbook Fundamental Neuroscience, Elsevier Science, pp. 841-872.
Holdefer, R. N., J. C. Houk and L. E. Miller (2005) Movement-related discharge in the cerebellar nuclei persists after local injections of GABAa antagonists. J. Neurophysiol. 93: 35-43.
Beiser DG, Houk JC. (1998) Model of cortical-basal ganglionic processing: Encoding the serial order of sensory events. Journal of Neurophysiology. 79: 3168-3188.
Novak KE, Miller LE, Houk JC. (2003) Features of motor performance that drive adaptation in rapid hand movements. Experimental Brain Research 148: 388-400.
Fishbach A, Roy SA, Bastianen C, Miller LE, Houk JC (2005) Kinematic properties of on-line error corrections in the monkey. Exp. Br. Res. 164: 442-457.
Gruber AJ, Solla SA, Surmeier DJ and Houk JC (2003) Modulation of striatal single units by expected reward: A spiny neuron model displaying dopamine-induced bistability. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90: 1095-1114.
Hua SE, Houk JC. (1997) Cerebellar guidance of premotor network development and sensorimotor learning. Learning & Memory. 4: 63-76.
Hua SE, Houk JC, Mussa-Ivaldi FA. (1999) Emergence of symmetric, modular, and reciprocal connections in recurrent networks with Hebbian learning. Biological Cybernetics 81:211-225.
Fraser D, Park S, Clark G, Yohanna D, Houk JC (2004) Spatial serial order processing in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Res. 70: 203-213.
