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Why Support the Department of Neuroscience?

Gifts to the Department of Neuroscience have a direct impact on the daily lives of students and are applied in a variety of ways. Your support will help with one of the following.

• Undergraduate scholarships
• Graduate student fellowships
• Distinguished Lecture Series
• Graduate student travel to conferences
• Undergraduate research
• Outreach activities

Making a gift to the Department of Neuroscience is quick and easy. Use the convenient online service, and follow the link to Give Online Now. Select "Other" and enter "Architectural Studies Program" on the second page of the form.

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You can also send your check made payable to the University of Pittsburgh to:

University of Pittsburgh Records Management
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200 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Indicate "Department of Neuroscience" on the subject line of your check. Call the University of Pittsburgh at 1-800-817-8943 to make your gift by phone. Thank you very much for you generosity!

Recent Faculty Publications

Cosgrove K.E., Galván E.J., Meriney S.D., and Barrionuevo, G. Area CA3 Interneurons Receive Two Spatially Segregated Mossy Fiber Inputs. Hippocampus, 2009 (in press).

Totah NK, Kim YB, Homayoun H, Moghaddam B. Anterior cingulate neurons represent errors and preparatory attention within the same behavioral sequence. Journal of Neuroscience. 2009 May 20;29(20):6418-26.

Gonzalez-Burgos, G., Kroener, S., Zaitsev, A.V., Povysheva, N.V., Krimer, L.S., Barrionuevo, G. and Lewis, D.A. Functional Maturation of Excitatory Synapses in Layer 3 Pyramidal Neurons during Postnatal Development of the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex. Jun 24, 2007; [Epub ahead of print].

Lodge, D.J. and Grace, A.A. (2008) Augmented hippocampal drive of mesolimbic dopamine neurons: A mechanism of psychostimulant sensitization. Journal of Neuroscience 28 7876-7882.

Clarke, R.J. and Johnson, J.W. (2008). Voltage-dependent gating of NR1/2B NMDA receptors. J. Physiol. 586, 5727-5741.

Keith, R.K., Poage, R.E., Yokoyama, C.T., Catterall, W.A., and Meriney, S.D. Bidirectional modulation of transmitter release by calcium channel/syntaxin interactions in

vivo. Journal of Neuroscience 27: 265-269, 2007.

Moghaddam, B. and Homayoun, H. Divergent Plasticity of Prefrontal Cortex networks. Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, 33: 42-55, 2008.

Koehnle, T.J., and Rinaman, L. Progressive postnatal increases in Fos immunoreactivity in the forebrain and brainstem of the rat in response to viscerosensory stimulation with lithium chloride. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology 292: R1212-R1223, 2007.

Omelchenko, N., Sesack, S.R. Glutamate synaptic inputs to ventral tegmental area neurons in the rat derive primarily from subcortical sources. Neuroscience 146: 1259-1274, 2007.

Smith, C.A., Curtis, K.S., Smith, J.C., and Stricker, E.M. Presystemic influences on thirst, salt appetite, and vasopressin secretion in the hypovolemic rat. Amer. J. Physiol. Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 May;292(5): R2089-99. Epub 2007 Jan 4.

Adams, J.M., Madden, C.J., Sved, A.F., and Stocker, S.D. Increased dietary salt enhances sympathoexcitatory and sympathoinhibitory responses from the rostral ventrolateral medulla. Hypertension. 50(2): 354-9, 2007. Epub 2007 Jun 25.