We developed a novel, shea butter-based ketamine ointment, and showed that transdermal ketamine ameliorated behavioral despair without altering general locomotor activity and anxiety-like behavior. Combining behavioral assessment with pharmacokinetic analysis, we suggest that skin-friendly drug carriers like shea butter may constitute promising alternatives to current routes of delivery for ketamine.
11 Jun 2023
Sinem, Defne, Ece, Zeynep and Bahar presented their work with 3 posters at the 21st National Neuroscience Congress organized by Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University.
Furthermore, explaining the role of ketamine on different phases of fear conditioning, Zeynep and Bahar received a poster prize!
17 May 2023
Sinem, Deren, Dilan and Cem received their first research grant. They have submitted excellent proposals to the A2-YL Program of the Health Institutes of Turkey, which is to support each work with ₺60.000. Congratulations to our researchers!
17 Apr 2023
We reviewed the algorithms, capability, functionality and features of open-source AI-based behavioral analysis tools used in rodent research.
11 Apr 2023
Our EMBO-funded work on ventral pallidum is published in Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry !
23 Feb 2023
Our 2-year work on the prophylactic effect of ketamine on anhedonia is published in Neuropharmacology!
We congratulate Ege and Cem for overcoming an over-extended chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) paradigm.
25 Oct 2022
Prof. György Buzsáki visited us at Boğaziçi despite his busy schedule; after giving a stimulating keynote lecture at the National Neuroscience Congress and before heading for Budapest to celebrate the 110th birthday of János Szentágothai.
23 Oct 2022
We attended the 20th National Neuroscience Congress at Acıbadem Unviersity (http://www.usk2022.org/) as a large group (Dilan, Cem, Deren, Sinem, Sena, Defne, Zeynep and Bahar).
Assoc. Prof. Ünal gave an invited talk on the basal forebrain neuromodulatory systems, while Dilan and Cem presented their recent results in the poster session.
19 Aug 2022
Sama, Sinem, Defne and Deren attended the German-Turkish Summer School on Comparative Neuroscience of Brain Evolution.
