Animal Models of Psychiatric Disease

The role of inhibition in shaping hippocampal memory traces
Molecular cell biologist Priyanka Rao-Ruiz aims for a better understanding how we can create so many different memories.

Sabine Spijker receives 1.5 M€ for her research on depression. ‘This Vici grant allows me discover what is the limit in information processing that is apparent in ‘the prison of depression’.

MCN PhD-student Bart Lubbers and PIs Taco De Vries and Sabine Spijker present first evidence for a molecular mechanism for relapse to nicotine seeking in the prefrontal cortex in which GABAA receptor trafficking is essential. Their findings are currently available in on-line issue of Biological Psychiatry.