We invite you to view the latest edition of the Central Sulcus, the Emory Neuroscience program newsletter, to catch up on important happenings in our program.

We would like to congratulate our recent 2013 & 2014 graduates:

DAVID BASS - Joseph Manns, Advisor: "Amygdala Stimulation Enhances Memory for Specific Events by Modulating the Hippocampus" (05/14)

KATIE BARRETT - Larry Young, Advisor: "Neural Mechanisms of Diversity in Social Behavior" (03/14)

CALLIE MCGRATH - Helen Mayberg, Advisor: "Characterizing Depression Neurobiology through Treatment Outcomes" (03/14)

MONICA CHAU - Ling Wei, Advisor: "Induced Pluripotent Stem (IPS) Cell Transplantation as a Treatment for Ischemic Stroke" (03/14)

TERESA MADSEN - Donald Rainnie, Advisor: "Corticolimbic Oscillations in Fear Learning" (03/14)

AHMAD SYLVESTER - James Lah & Allan Levey, Co-Advisors: "Characterization of the Relationship between LR11 and Neurofibrillary Tangles" (02/14)

NIKKI SAWYER - Andrew Escayg & Gretchen Neigh, Co-Advisors: "The Role of Stress in two Genetic Models of Epilepsy" (02/14)

RACHAEL ALLEN - Machelle Pardue, Advisor: "Progesterone as a Neuroprotective Treatment in the Retina" (01/14)

MOE HEIN AUNG - Machelle Pardue, Advisor: "Mechanisms Underlying Early Visual Dysfunctions in Rodent Models of Type 1 Diabetes" (01/14)

REBECCA MEYER - Randy Hall, Advisor: "GPR37 and GPR37L1: Ligand Identification, Cell Protective Signaling and Dopaminergic Cross-Talk" (12/13)

CHRISTOPHER MAKINSON - Andrew Escayg, Advisor: "The Role of the Voltage Gated Sodium Channel SCN8A in Epilepsy" (12/13)

DAVID EHRLICH - Donald Rainnie, Advisor: "Critical Periods in the Development of Amygdala Inhibition: Effects of Prenatal Stress" (11/13)

LUCY CHASTAIN - Becky Kinkead and Charles Nemeroff, Co-Advisors: "The Consequences of Neurotensin Deficiency on the Behavioral Effects of Dopamine Agonists and on Striatal Dopaminergic Tone" (10/13)

ABRAHAM MATHAI - Yoland Smith, Advisor: "Glutamatergic Inputs to the Subthalamic Nucleus: A Comparison of Relative Abundance, Synaptology and Functional Connectivity in Normal versus Parkinsonian Conditions" (09/13)

KALYNDA GONZALES - Yoland Smith and Thomas Wichmann, Co-advisors: "Cholinergic Interneurons: Distribution and Synaptic Inputs in the Primate Putamen" (08/13)

SARA FREEMAN - Larry Young, Advisor: "Characterization of Oxytocin Receptors in the Nonhuman Primate Brain" (08/13)

BRITTANY HOWELL - Mar Sanchez, Advisor: "Neurodevelopmental Consequences of Early-life Stress in Primates" (08/13)

DAMON LAMB - Ronald Calabrese, Advisor: "Multi-compartmental Modeling shows Correlated Conductance Parameters in Leech Heart Motor Neurons Contribute to Motor Pattern Formation" (08/13)

YANJIE FAN - James Zheng, Advisor: "Actin Capping Protein in Dendritic Spine Development" (06/13)

AMY ANDERSON-ZOSE - Edward Craighead and Elaine Walker, Co-Advisors: "Prenatal Maternal Depression and the Neurodevelopment of Social Cognition" (04/13)

SANTIAGO ARCHILA - Astrid Prinz, Advisor: "Experimental and Computational Evidence for Regulation of Synaptic Conductance via Graded Homeostasis of Post-synaptic Chloride Concentration" (04/13)

STEFANIE RITTER - Randy Hall, Advisor: "Regulation of Glutamate Transporter and Receptor Function by NHERF Scaffolding Proteins" (04/13)

DEBRA COOPER - Leonard Howell and David Weinshenker, Co-Advisors: "Effects of Pharmacological Dopamine b-hydroxylase Inhibition on Cocaine-induced Behavior and Neurochemistry" (03/13)

ERIN HECHT - Lisa Parr, Advisor: "Neural Adaptations for Social Learning: Structural and Functional Investigations of Action Observation Networks in Macaques, Chimpanzees and Humans" (01/13)