Background and aims: We have recently shown that Dextromethorphan is neuroprotective against excitotoxic and hyperoxic-induced brain injury. Beside its antagonistic effect on the NMDA [N-methyl-D ...

Current Directions in Psychological Science 5:37-43. [Cogprint] Arvanitogiannis A, Waraczynski M, Shizgal P (1996) Effects of excitotoxic lesions of the basal forebrain on MFB self-stimulation.

However, De Beaumont's results suggest that receiving one or more further blows increases the excitotoxic response, making ...

When our review of the role of progesterone (PROG) in brain injury was published in Future Neurology in 2006, there was no clinically available treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI). [1] This ...

J Neurosci 20:5538-5543. [PubMed] [Full] Brake WG, Flores G, Francis D, Meaney MJ, Srivastava LK, Gratton A (2000) Enhanced nucleus accumbens dopamine and plasma corticosterone stress responses in ...

Stephen Moss's lab at Tufts University, where she studied the regulation of GABAB receptors by excitotoxic stimuli. Her research interests include cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2013;13(12):1319-1328. The PPN consists of two parts: the pars dissipata, located at the rostrocaudal axis and composed by different neuron subtypes (cholinergic ...