We are happy to announce that Deren (left) and Selçuk (center) were both awarded with a TÜBİTAK 2247-C STAR Fellowship as part of our major grant from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Their current research investigates the interaction between environmental stimulation and the behavioral effects of ketamine. Furthermore, Sena (right) from TOBB University (Ankara) is joining our lab to invigorate the “STAR Team” with her hard work and talent in programming.
The new review/perspective article by Prof. Canbeyli presents a bottom-up model on the modulation of mood and clinical depression. Published in the European Journal of Neuroscience (EJN), the article (Sensory stimulation via the visual, auditory, olfactory and gustatory systems can modulate mood and depression) suggests that "combined use of multisensory stimulation may have synergistic ameliorative effects on depressive symptoms over and above what has so far been documented for unisensory stimulation".
Our PI is to give an invited talk on systems neuroscience at the 17th Congress of Medical Biology and Genetics (online) on October 30th! Check the congress website here.
The PI is to present our work on ketamine at the 57th National Psychiatry Congress (Ankara) on October 22nd! Check the congress website here.
Our new Turkish edited volume (Experimental Approaches to Cognitive and Behavioral Processes in Psychology / Psikolojide Bilişsel ve Davranışsal Süreçlere Deneysel Yaklaşımlar) portrays the theoretical and methodological variety of contemporary experimental psychology. It offers 6 chapters ranging from epigenetics to social cognition together with a preface that offers a beautiful excursion to the history of psychology.
Cem and Ege were successful in their 2209/A (Research Support Programme for Undergraduate Students) application to the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). Their project is titled “the antidepressant properties of chronic oral ketamine application on male Wistar rats under stress”.
Our PI is to give a talk on the foundations and current state of behavioral neuroscience as part of the Brain Awareness Week at 2pm on Sunday March 21! The talk will be live streamed on GENMET's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_f-HYxDJlUEy_ATnYBWG0Q
