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 ...

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 ...

where she studied the regulation of GABAB receptors by excitotoxic stimuli. Her research interests include cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics/genomics, and addiction. Shari is based in ...

[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 adult rats with neonatal ...

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.

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 ...