Assembly and Plasticity of Circuits Essential for Memory Storage
November 28, 2018 @ 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm
Anton Maximov, The Scripps Research Institute
108 Wartik Lab with video to Hershey COM Room CG624F
University Park
The mammalian brain is composed of billions of neurons. Each of these neurons forms up to several thousand synaptic connections, asymmetric intercellular junctions that transmit signals essential for our abilities to perceive the external world, generate behavioral responses, learn and remember. Synapses are sophisticated structures built with hundreds of different proteins. Mutations in genes encoding these proteins have been implicated in a broad spectrum of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders including Alzheimer۪s disease, Parkinson۪s disease, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.
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