Upcoming Seminars and Events
PhD Dissertation Defense: Sara A. Guediche
October 27, 2009
Tuesday, 9:30 am
2nd Floor Auditorium, LRDC
CNUP PhD Defense
Title: Adaptive Processes in Speech Perception: Contributions from Cerebral and Cerebellar Cortices
Department of Neuroscience Seminar:
November 12, 2009
Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
A219B Langley Hall
Linda Rinaman, PhD
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar Title: Postnatal Plasticity of Central Visceral Circuits
Sponsor: Department of Neuroscience
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PhD Dissertation Defense: Patryk Laurent
November 13 , 2009
Friday, 10:00 am
2nd Floor Auditorium, LRDC
CNUP PhD Defense
Title: Basal ganglia involvement in the reinforcement learning of physical and cognitive actions
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.
