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Keywords

Neuroscience, medical education, student engagement, teaching and learning

Countries

United Kingdom, Grenada, Ireland

Biography

Dr Fahey is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Physiology, Neuroscience and Behavioral Sciences at St. George’s University (SGU) School of Medicine. She is based at Northumbria University (NU), UK, on the SGU/NU International Medical Pathway.
Her main teaching areas are neuroanatomy, sensory systems, and clinical application of fundamental neuroscience. Her interests include student engagement, the learning environment and emerging concepts in neuroscience.

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Employment (2)

St. George's University: Saint George's, Grenada and UK, GD

2007 to 2023 | Associate Professor (Physiology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Sciences)
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Briana Fahey

Trinity College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2005 to 2007 | Post-doctoral fellow (Neuroscience)
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Briana Fahey

Education and qualifications (3)

Trinity College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2002 to 2005 | PhD Behavioral Neuroscience (Psychology)
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Briana Fahey

University of Manchester: Manchester, GB

2001 to 2002 | MSc Neuroscience (Biological Sciences)
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Trinity College Dublin: Dublin, IE

1997 to 2001 | BA (Hons) Natural Sciences (Natural Sciences)
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Professional activities (1)

Higher Education Academy: York, GB

2018 | Senior Fellow (SFHEA)
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Works (6)

Using office hour appointment data to illustrate a decline in student-faculty interaction during and after COVID-19

Advances in Physiology Education
2024-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00036.2024
Contributors: Briana Fahey; Stephen Boddy
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Deficits in temporal order memory induced by interferon-alpha (IFN-α) treatment are rescued by aerobic exercise.

Brain research bulletin
2018-05-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2018.05.012
PMID: 29782908
Contributors: Sally Barlow; Fahey B; Kimberley J Smith; Johannes Passecker; Della-Chiesa A; Vincent Hok; Day JS; Charlotte Callaghan; Shane O'Mara
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Briana Fahey

Interferon-alpha-induced deficits in novel object recognition are rescued by chronic exercise.

Physiology & behavior
2008-05-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.05.008
PMID: 18571208
Contributors: Fahey B; Sally Barlow; Day JS; Shane O'Mara
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Briana Fahey

Blockade of NMDA receptors pre-training, but not post-training, impairs object displacement learning in the rat.

Brain research
2008-01-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.019
PMID: 18272142
Contributors: Aoife Larkin; Fahey B; Oliviero Gobbo; Charlotte Callaghan; Emma Cahill; Shane O'Mara; Áine M. Kelly
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Briana Fahey

The widely-used anti-viral drug interferon-alpha induces depressive- and anxiogenic-like effects in healthy rats.

Behavioural brain research
2007-05-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.05.005
PMID: 17588681
Contributors: Fahey B; Hickey B; Kelleher D; O'Dwyer AM; Shane O'Mara
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Briana Fahey

Aberrant gating of photic input to the suprachiasmatic circadian pacemaker of mice lacking the VPAC2 receptor.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
2004-04-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5345-03.2004
PMID: 15071099
PMC: PMC6729740
Contributors: Alun Hughes; Fahey B; Cutler DJ; Andrew Coogan; Hugh Piggins
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Briana Fahey
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