报告题目：深部脑刺激（Deep Brain Stimulation，DBS）治疗帕金森病（Parkinson’s disease，PD）的研究

　　报告人：昆士兰脑研究所所长Pankaj Sah教授

　　时间：2017年3月16日上午9:30

　　地点：动物所主楼322会议室

　　报告人介绍：

　　Professor Sah is Director of the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), and is renowned for his work in understanding the physiology of excitatory synapses and synaptic plasticity in the amygdala, an area of the brain involved in emotional processing. He was recruited to QBI as a founding member in 2003, and was appointed as its Deputy Director (Research) in 2007. He has been Director of the Queensland Brain Institute since July 2015.Previously, he was a group leader at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, and a laboratory head in the Department of Physiology at the University of Newcastle.

　　His laboratory studies the amygdala using a combination of molecular tools, electrophysiology, anatomical reconstruction and calcium imaging. Recently, his laboratory has examined electrophysiological recordings in patients undergoing electrode implantation for deep brain stimulation, which is used to treat a variety of disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome and essential tremor.

　　Professor Sah has published over 110 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Nature Partnership Journal npj Science of Learning, the first journal to bring together the findings of neuroscientists, psychologists, and education researchers to understand how the brain learns.

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