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Walter Wiggins

Currently, I'm in the first year of the Neuroscience PhD program (my 3rd year in the MD/PhD program). My primary project is investigating the neuroprotective properties of T-type calcium channel blockers in the mouse pilocarpine model of status epilepticus and temporal lobe epilepsy. Our lab recently published a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience demonstrating the importance of T-type calcium channels in the pathophysiology of this model. I'm also working with other members of our lab investigating diurnal rhythms of activity and temperature in a murine repeated ethanol withdrawal paradigm.

Wiggins WF, Huitt TW, Stapleton-Kotloski JR, O'Donovan CA, Wilson TW, Godwin DW. Imaging childhood absence epilepsy with magnetoencephalography. Poster. WFUSM Medical Student Research Day, 2008.
Huitt TW, Stapleton-Kotloski JR, O'Donovan CA, Wiggins WF, Wilson TW, Godwin DW. Imaging childhood absence epilepsy with magnetoencephalography. Poster. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 2008.
Stapleton-Kotloski JR, Huitt TW, O'Donovan CA, Wiggins WF, Wilson TW, Godwin DW. Imaging childhood absence epilepsy with magnetoencephalography. Poster. American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, 2008.
Wiggins WF. Neurodynamics: Chaos in the Brain. Presentation. Davidson College Dept. of Mathematics, 2009.

Graef JD, Nordskog BK, Wiggins WF, Godwin DW. An acquired channelopathy involving thalamic T-type Ca2+ channels after status epilepticus. J Neurosci. 2009 Apr 8; 29(14):4430-41.

Cum Laude, 2007, Davidson College
NIH Intramural Fellowship - Medical Student Research Training Program, 2008, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Tuition Scholarship, 2009-present, Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

American Medical Association - Student Section
American College of Physicians - Student Section
American Academy of Neurology - Medical Student member
North Carolina Medical Society - Student Section
Student National Medical Association

Golf, running, tennis, waterskiing, alpine skiing, sailing, hiking and other outdoor activities, music, etc.

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