Publications from Primary Faculty Members - November 2017:

Hu, B, Niebur, E.  A recurrent neural model for proto-object based contour integration and figure-ground segregation. J Comput Neurosci. 2017 Dec;43(3):227-242. doi: 10.1007/s10827-017-0659-3. Epub 2017 Sep 19.

Meixiong, J, Dong, X. Mas-Related G Protein-Coupled Receptors and the Biology of Itch Sensation. Annu Rev Genet. 2017 Nov; 51:  103-121. . doi: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120116-024723.

Wang Q, Chiu SL, Koropouli E, Hong I, Mitchell S, Easwaran TP, Hamilton NR, Gustina AS, Zhu Q, Ginty DD, Huganir RL, Kolodkin AL. Neuropilin-2/PlexinA3 Receptors Associate with GluA1 and Mediate Sema3F-Dependent Homeostatic Scaling in Cortical Neurons. Neuron. 2017 Nov 14. pii: S0896-6273(17)31021-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.10.029. [Epub ahead of print]

Three primary Neuroscience faculty were chosen to recieve 2017 Synergy Awards:  Dr. Jay Baraban, Dr. Loyal Goff, Dr. Ulrich Mueller.  Dr. Mark Wu, secondary in Neuroscience, was chosen to receive a 2017 Innovation Award.  Congratulations!

Excerpt from Today Show Interview with Dr. Mark Mattson

"We find that in the animals, the intermittent fasting reduces brain inflammation," said Mark Mattson, chief of laboratory of neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Maryland. Mattson also noted that in mice studies, intermittent fasting dramatically improved heart health and prevented the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

"Intermittent fasting improves cognition, that is learning and memory, and protects nerve cells from dysfunction and degeneration," Mattson continued.

A great, mostly non-technical conversation about science with the wonderful neuroscientist Dr. King-Wai Yau, who has been at Johns Hopkins Medicinefor 32 years.

Live from the neuroscience department of Johns Hopkins Medicine: an interview with neuroscientist Dr. Dwight Bergles on neurons, glial cells, and astrocytes.