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- Undergraduate scholarships
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- Distinguished Lecture Series
- Graduate student travel to conferences
- Undergraduate research
- Outreach activities
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Upcoming Seminars and Events
Department of Neuroscience Seminar:
February 13, 2012
Monday, 9:30 am
Travis E. Brown, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology
Brown University
Seminar Title: Interleukin-1 Beta Mediates LTP of Spinal Cord Glycinergic Synapses
Location: A219B Langley Hall
Sponsor: Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Neuroscience
Recent Faculty Publications
Card, JP, Kobiler O, Ludmir, EB, Desai, V, Sved AF, Enquist, LW., A Dual Infection Pseudorabies Virus Conditional
Reporter Approach to Identify Projections to
Collateralized Neurons in Complex Neural Circuits.,
PLoS One. 2011;6(6):e21141. Epub 2011 Jun 16.
Card JP, Kobiler O, McCambridge J, Ebdlahad S, Shan Z, Raizada MK, Sved AF, Enquist LW., Microdissection of neural networks by conditional reporter expression from a Brainbow herpesvirus., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Feb 3. [Epub ahead of print], PMID: 21292985 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Belujon P, Lodge DJ, Grace AA., Aberrant striatal plasticity is specifically associated with dyskinesia following levodopa treatment., Mov Disord. 2010 Aug 15;25(11):1568-76.PMID: 20623773 [PubMed - in process]
Bourassa EA, Fang X, Li X, Sved AF, Speth RC., AT(1) angiotensin II receptor and novel non-AT(1), non-AT(2) angiotensin II/III binding site in brainstem cardiovascular regulatory centers of the spontaneously hypertensive rat., Brain Res. 2010 Nov 4;1359:98-106. Epub 2010 Aug 31.PMID: 20807518 [PubMed - in process]
Card JP, Lois J, Sved AF., Distribution and phenotype of Phox2a-containing neurons in the adult sprague-dawley rat., J Comp Neurol. 2010 Jun 15;518(12):2202-20.PMID: 20437524 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Cosgrove KE, Meriney SD, Barrionuevo G., High affinity group III mGluRs regulate mossy fiber input to CA3 interneurons., Hippocampus. 2010 Sep 7. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20824730 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Curanović D, Lyman MG, Bou-Abboud C, Card JP, Enquist LW., Repair of the UL21 locus in pseudorabies virus Bartha enhances the kinetics of retrograde, transneuronal infection in vitro and in vivo., J Virol. 2009 Feb;83(3):1173-83. Epub 2008 Nov 19.PMID: 19019952 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Dunn CA, Hall NJ, Colby CL., Spatial updating in monkey superior colliculus in the absence of the forebrain commissures: dissociation between superficial and intermediate layers., J Neurophysiol. 2010 Sep;104(3):1267-85. Epub 2010 Jul 7.PMID: 20610793 [PubMed - in process]
Dunn CA, Colby CL., Representation of the Ipsilateral Visual Field by Neurons in the Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Cortex Depends on the Forebrain Commissures., J Neurophysiol. 2010 Aug 18. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20660427 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Eggan SM, Melchitzky DS, Sesack SR, Fish KN, Lewis DA., Relationship of cannabinoid CB1 receptor and cholecystokinin immunoreactivity in monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex., Neuroscience. 2010 Sep 15;169(4):1651-61. Epub 2010 Jun 11.PMID: 20542094 [PubMed - in process]
Ferrell RE, Baty CJ, Kimak MA, Karlsson JM, Lawrence EC, Franke-Snyder M, Meriney SD, Feingold E, Finegold DN., GJC2 missense mutations cause human lymphedema., Am J Hum Genet. 2010 Jun 11;86(6):943-8. Epub 2010 May 27.PMID: 20537300 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Galván EJ, Cosgrove KE, Mauna JC, Card JP, Thiels E, Meriney SD, Barrionuevo G., Critical involvement of postsynaptic protein kinase activation in long-term potentiation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses on CA3 interneurons., J Neurosci. 2010 Feb 24;30(8):2844-55.PMID: 20181582 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Gielen M, Siegler Retchless B, Mony L, Johnson JW, Paoletti P., Mechanism of differential control of NMDA receptor activity by NR2 subunits, Nature. 2009 Jun 4;459(7247):703-7. Epub 2009 Apr 29.PMID: 19404260 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Holmstrand EC, Asafu-Adjei J, Sampson AR, Blakely RD, Sesack SR., Ultrastructural localization of high-affinity choline transporter in the rat anteroventral thalamus and ventral tegmental area: differences in axon morphology and transporter distribution., J Comp Neurol. 2010 Jun 1;518(11):1908-24.PMID: 20394050 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Koehnle TJ, Rinaman L., Early experience alters limbic forebrain Fos responses to a stressful interoceptive stimulus in young adult rats., Physiol Behav. 2010 May 11;100(2):105-15. Epub 2010 Feb 14.PMID: 20159026 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Kotermanski SE, Wood JT, Johnson JW., Memantine binding to a superficial site on NMDA receptors contributes to partial trapping., J Physiol. 2009 Oct 1;587(Pt 19):4589-604. Epub 2009 Aug 17.PMID: 19687120 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Lodge DJ, Grace AA., Developmental pathology, dopamine, stress and schizophrenia., Int J Dev Neurosci. 2010 Aug 19. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20727962 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
McCarron DA, Drüeke TB, Stricker EM., Science trumps politics: urinary sodium data challenge US dietary sodium guideline., Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Oct 6. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 20926523 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher
Moghaddam B., Dopamine in the thalamus: a hotbed for psychosis?, Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Jul 1;68(1):3-4. No abstract available. PMID: 20609835 [PubMed - in process]
Pehrson AL, Moghaddam B.; Impact of metabotropic glutamate 2/3 receptor stimulation on activated dopamine release and locomotion., Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2010 Sep;211(4):443-55. Epub 2010 Jun 29.PMID: 20585759 [PubMed - in process]
Rinaman L., Ascending projections from the caudal visceral nucleus of the solitary tract to brain regions involved in food intake and energy expenditure., Brain Res. 2010 Sep 2;1350:18-34. Epub 2010 Mar 27.PMID: 20353764 [PubMed - in process]
Stocker SD, Madden CJ, Sved AF., Excess dietary salt intake alters the excitability of central sympathetic networks., Physiol Behav. 2010 Jul 14;100(5):519-24. Epub 2010 May 1. Review.PMID: 20434471 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
