Behavioural Neurogenetics

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Nicotine and tobacco addiction

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Maternal Immune Activation (MIA)

THE SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER (SERT) IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

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18.09.2019 – More Grant News

We just received the wonderful news that we were successful in securing an MBIE Endeavour grant. Together with Drs Penny Truman, Paul Teesdale Spittle and Rob Keijzers we will investigate whether monoamine oxidase inhibitors alter the rewarding properties of nicotine. This can help us develop more effective replacement therapies.

Posted on August 9, 2019 by

26.4.19 : Research for Life grant

A bit of good news at the end of the week. Darren and I submitted a grant to the Research for Life Foundation to investigate the serotonylation of Rho GTPases in our SERT KO rats, a project very close to Liv McGifford‘s project. And we just got the good news that it was successful.

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Mitochondrial targeted therapies: Where do we stand in Mental Disorders? 

What I read: Ben-Shachar, D., & Ene, H. (2018). Mitochondrial Targeted Therapies: Where Do We Stand in Mental Disorders? Biological Psychiatry, 83(9), 770–779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.08.007  I’ve been doing lots of reading on the involvement of mitochondria in psychiatric and neurological disorders, but I thought it would be interesting to look into this review paper that consolidates our current status …

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