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You can watch the 2022 Award Ceremony.
28 Feb 2022
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23 Feb 2022
Our efforts on elucidating the biological and psychological correlates of environmental enrichment bore fruit, thanks to the perseverance of Beyza and Melisa.
This work demonstrates that brief enrichment following relatively long-term isolation stress leads to differential results in affective and cognitive systems. Following 30 days of social isolation, we observed a substantial anxiolytic effect in the experimental/enriched animals. However, rats exposed to enrichment also showed increased behavioral despair compared with the control group:
15 Nov 2021
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.
20 Oct 2021
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".
04 Oct 2021
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.
27 Sep 2021
The PI is to present our work on ketamine at the 57th National Psychiatry Congress (Ankara) on October 22nd! Check the congress website here.
17 May 2021
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.
05 May 2021
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”.
