Israel Neuroscience Research - May 2013

Neuroscience laboratories in Israel are producing quality research results and high-impact publications on a daily basis. A selection of Israel neuroscience publications are featured below, posted to the site as they are made publicly available in the U.S. National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health PubMed database. Discuss this research further by leaving a comment or by posting a topic in the Israel Neuroscience Research Forum. If you would like to receive notifications when new publications are added to the site, become a fan of Israel Neuroscience Research Link on Facebook or follow INRL on Twitter (links can be found to the right).


Differential effect of prenatal stress on the expression of cortiocotropin releasing hormone and its receptors in the hypothalamus and amygdala in male and female rats
Zohar I, Weinstock M
Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Drug Research, Hebrew University Medical Centre, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

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Internally generated preactivation of single neurons in human medial frontal cortex predicts volition
Fried I, Mukamel R, Kreiman G
Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Functional Neurosurgery Unit, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel

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Defensive self-presentation style is associated with reduced prepulse inhibition
Levin R, Bachner-Melman R, Lichtenberg P, Edelman S, Ebstein RP, Heresco-Levy U
Ezrath Nashim-Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; Neurobiology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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Pre- and Post-Conditioning Treatment with an Ultra-Low Dose of Δ(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) Protects against Pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-Induced Cognitive Damage
Assaf F, Fishbein M, Gafni M, Keren O, Sarne Y
The Adelson Center for the Biology of Addictive Diseases and The Mauerberger Chair in Neuropharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel

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