Synapse

Columnar distribution of catecholaminergic neurons in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray and their relationship to efferent pathways
Shelby K. Suckow, Emily L. Deichsel, Susan L. Ingram, Michael M. Morgan and Sue A. Aicher

Obese rats with deficient leptin signaling exhibit heightened sensitivity to olfactory food cues
Panayotis K. Thanos, Lisa S. Robison, John K. Robinson, Michael Michaelides, Gene-Jack Wang and Nora D. Volkow

The effects of tetanic stimulation on plasticity of remote synapses in the hippocampus-perirhinal cortex-amygdala network
Beste Supcun, Maryam Khaleghi Ghadiri, Maryam Zeraati, Walter Stummer, Erwin-Josef Speckmann and Ali Gorji

Mitochondrial plasticity of the hippocampus in a genetic rat model of depression after antidepressant treatment
Fenghua Chen, Gregers Wegener, Torsten M. Madsen and Jens R. Nyengaard

5-HT1B autoreceptor regulation of serotonin transporter activity in synaptosomes
Catherine E. Hagan, Ross A. Mcdevitt, Yusha Liu, Amy R. Furay and John F. Neumaier

Amyloid β-protein suppressed nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated currents in acutely isolated rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons
Ye-Xin He, Mei-Na Wu, Hui Zhang and Jin-Shun Qi

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Peter Jenner

Peter Jenner is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at King’s College in London. He is a specialist in neurological and psychiatric diseases and in particular, the biochemistry and pharmacology of their underlying causes and treatments through the use of in vitro experimentation and in vivo modelling. Peter has a passion for translational research and possesses expertise in the major neurotransmitter networks in brain and the relationship to drug action, drug addiction and to imaging of receptor systems.

Henrique von Gersdorff

Henrique von Gersdorff earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Stony Brook University in New York. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Stony Brook University and the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Department of Membrane Biophysics, Göttingen). He is a senior scientist at the Vollum Institute in Oregon Health and Sciences University (Portland, Oregon). He also holds a faculty appointment in the Cell and Developmental Biology department of OHSU. His major research interests are in synaptic physiology, short-term and long-term plasticity, sensory biophysics, ion channel modulation, and calcium dynamics in nerve terminals.