The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Carl Parsons
School: School of Biomedical Sciences
Commenced with Institution: 26-JUL-2001
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Professor Michael Calford;Dr Carl Parsons 2007 1 American Tinnitus Association Project - Research Grant Neuroplasticity, behaviour and therapeutic training in an animal model of tinnitus   97171  
Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Michael Calford 2007 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Investigating neuroplasticity underlying tinnitus   20000  
Dr Carl Parsons 2006 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Vienna Austria, 9-12 July 2006   1000  
Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Michael Calford 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Investigating the link between auditory cortex plasticity and chronic tinnitus   20000  
Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Michael Calford 2005 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute Project - Project Grant Investigating the link between auditory system plasticity and chronic tinnitus   13400  
Dr Carl Parsons 2002 1 University of Newcastle Project - New Staff Grant Lesion-induced plasticity in the ferret visual cortex exposed using monocular and binocular stimulation   10653  
Professor Michael Calford;Dr Carl Parsons;Professor Ellak Von Nagy-Felsobuki 2002 3 National Health & Medical Research Council Project - Project Grant Neurosteroid modulation of GABA-inhibition in vivo: central auditory pathway models   330000  
Dr Carl Parsons 2002 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant GABAa Receptors in Cellular and Network Exitability, and Society for Neuroscience Annual M., Florida, USA 21 Oct 2002 - 2 Nov 2002, 2 - 7 Nov 2002   2400  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Chemistry) Co-Supervisor Analysis of Trace Metals and Metalloproteins in Brain Tissue after Experience Dependent Plasticity

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 0.150

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Morrison Anthony Arthur, Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Ab initio and DFT cation affinity study of selected neurosteroids’, Journal of Molecular Structure-Theochem, 723 85-93 (2005) [C1]

Smith Adam L, Parsons Carl Harold, Lanyon Richard G, Bizley Jennifer K, Akerman Colin J, Baker Gary E, Dempster Amanda C, Thompson Ian D, King Andrew J, ’An investigation of the role of auditory cortex in sound localization using muscimol-releasing Elvax’, European Journal of Neuroscience, 19 3059-3072 (2004) [C1]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Multi-elemental analysis of brain tissue from healthy Wistar rats using sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry’, Spectrochimica Acta Part B - Atomic Spectroscopy, 59 1485-1490 (2004) [C1]

Bishop Robert, McLeod Damian Donald, McIlveen Stephen Andrew, Blake Robert John, Gunther R, Davis J, Talken L, Cottee David Bruce, Quail Anthony Walker, Parsons Carl Harold, White Saxon William, ’Long-Term Measurement of Bronchial Vascular Resistance in Awake Sheep and Dogs’, Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 111 315-315 (2003) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Parsons Carl Harold, Koolwijk Irene, Roy Tammie Kim, Roy Cherie Ann, Johnstone Daniel, Vos Catherine M P, Conant Katherine, Milward Adrienne Elizabeth, ’Matrix Metalloproteinases and Related Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders’, Matrix Metalloproteinases in the Central Nervous System, Imperial College Press, London, 279-310 (2005) [B1]

Conference Publication

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Changes in metal fluxes in the cerebral cortex of wistar rats after reduced sensory input by vibressectomy’, 6th RACI Conference on Physical Chemistry (CPC2007). Program Book, Adelaide (2007) [E3]

Bardy C, Wang C, Fitzgibbon T, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Dreher B, ’Matching contextual modulation through lesioned and normal eyes: presumptive reorganization of cortical wiring to binocular cells in the primary visual cortex (Poster)’, 7th IBRO 2007 World Congress of Neuroscience Program, Melbourne (2007) [E3]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Allen J, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Quantification and characterization of metallothioneins by measurement of Cd, Cu, S and Zn using on-line HPLC / ICP-SF-MS and FTICR-MS’, 6th RACI Conference on Physical Chemistry (CPC2007). Program Book, Adelaide (2007) [E3]

Parsons Carl Harold, Rajan R, Calford Michael Brian, ’Monoaural cochlear lesions induce changes in binaural processing in cat auditory cortex’, Society for Neuroscience, Unknown (2005) [E3]

Parsons Carl Harold, Paul Mitchell Christopher, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, Calford Michael Brian, ’High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Measurement of Zn and Trace Metal Response Functions in Barrel Cortex Following Vibrissal Lesions’, Proceeding of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Melbourne, Australia (2004) [E3]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Morrison Anthony Arthur, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, ’The cation affinity of neuroactive steroids: molecular orbital calculations and in vitro emi-ms measurements’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Melbourne, Australia (2004) [E3]

Paul Mitchell Christopher, Parsons Carl Harold, Calford Michael Brian, Von Nagy-Felsobuki Ellak Imre, ’Multi-Elemental Analysis of Brain Tissues using Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry: Healthy Wistar Rats’, 4th International Conference on High Resolution Sector Field ICPMS, Venice, Italy (2003) [E3]

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