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Departamento de Fisiología Coloquio de Neurofisiología Serie 2017-1 The Newton Fund International Collaboration Programme 2016 Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y la Royal Society, UK Dr. Jerome D. Swinny Fellow of Newton fund-AMC-CONACYT School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences University of Portsmouth, Reino Unido Emotional instability in the demented: how Locus Coeruleus dysfunction contributes to psychiatric disorders in Alzheimer’s disease About the speaker Dr. Swinny graduated with BSc Pharmacy and MSc Pharmacology degrees from the University of Kwazulu Natal South Africa. He then went on to obtain a PhD from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Following postdoctoral training with Dr. Rita Valentino, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Prof. Peter Somogyi, FRS, University of Oxford, he was appointed to his current position in 2009. The Neurochemical Anatomy & Psychopharmacology Group Dr. Swinny leads is part of cell biology and pharmacology section of IBBS. Their research is focussed on investigating the expression and functional plasticity of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters in the central and peripheral nervous systems to psychosocial stress. Auditorio Fernando Ocaranza. Facultad de Medicina 17 de Agosto de 2016, 12:00 – 12:40 hrs. Información: Dra. Limei Zhang o Dr. Victor Rodriguez [email protected], [email protected],
