Rate My Professor Simone Carron

Dr. Simone Carron serves as a lecturer in the Department of Physiology at Monash University, part of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute. In her teaching role, she coordinates and delivers Physiology instruction for the Year 1 and Year 2 Medicine courses. Additionally, she lectures and teaches third-year Physiology units, contributing significantly to the education of medical and biomedical science students. Carron completed her PhD in the Department of Physiology at Monash University in 2017. Her doctoral research focused on investigating changes in inhibitory neurons following traumatic brain injury, which forms the basis of her expertise in neuroscience and physiology.

Carron's research specializations encompass traumatic brain injury (TBI), inhibition, behaviour, and epilepsy. Her work utilizes rat models to explore neuronal alterations and their behavioral outcomes. She has authored several peer-reviewed articles, including "Early life adversity accelerates epileptogenesis and enhances depression-like behaviors in rats" (Experimental Neurology, August 2022, with Rupasinghe, R., Dezsi, G., Ozturk, E., Hudson, M. R., Casillas-Espinosa, P. M., and Jones, N. C.; 9 citations); "Inhibitory neuronal changes following a mixed diffuse-focal model of traumatic brain injury" (Journal of Comparative Neurology, February 2020, with Sun, M., Shultz, S. R., and Rajan, R.; 15 citations); "Cognitive deficits in a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy using touchscreen-based translational tools" (Epilepsia, August 2019, with Dezsi, G., Ozturk, E., Nithianantharajah, J., and Jones, N. C.; 24 citations); "Immediate and Medium-term Changes in Cortical and Hippocampal Inhibitory Neuronal Populations after Diffuse TBI" (Neuroscience, September 2018, with Yan, E. B., Allitt, B. J., and Rajan, R.; 12 citations); and "Differential susceptibility of cortical and sub-cortical inhibitory neurons and astrocytes in the long term following diffuse traumatic brain injury" (Journal of Comparative Neurology, December 2016, with Yan, E. B., Alwis, D. S., and Rajan, R.; 31 citations). Carron has produced a total of seven research outputs documented in her university profile, advancing knowledge on post-injury inhibitory circuitry, epileptogenesis, cognitive deficits, and depression-like behaviors in preclinical models. As an education-focused academic, she has been affiliated with the Department of Physiology since October 2017.