Nick Housley

Dr. Housley is also Fellow in the Sensorimotor Integration Lab & Integrated Cancer Research Center at Georgia Tech. In the broadest terms, my interests center on how the nervous system, cancer, and its treatment interact in mammalian systems.  My research interests rest on my recent discoveries that securely establish the existence of reciprocal interactions between cancer, cancer treatment and the nervous system. In addition, my other area of study centers on how the nervous and musculoskeletal systems interact to encode sensorimotor information and how integration in the mammalian spinal cord results in physiologically relevant movement. Using in vivo electrophysiological methods, I investigate synaptic function and firing behavior of isolated neurons and population responses. I am actively examining how encoding and decoding behavior of neuronal circuits can be challenged and how they adapt to a variety of pathological states.