International Research Scholar Pavel M. Balaban -
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Published on: 5/27/1999
Last Visited: 8/12/2000
Pavel M. Balaban
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Pavel M. Balaban, Ph.D., D.Sc
Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, MoscowRussian Academy of SciencesMoscow, Russia
Biographical Information
Dr. Balaban is Head, Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology of Learning, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow.He earned his Ph.D. in physiology from the Institute for his work on the role of specific neurons in eliciting withdrawal behavior in snails.He became a Researcher in the Institute for Biological Testing of Chemicals and received his D.Sc. from the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology.Dr. Balaban has been a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Neurobiology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.He is working in collaboration with Lawrence B. Cohen, Ph.D., a Professor at Yale University School of Medicine.
Research from 1999
A single serotonergic modulatory cell can mediate reinforcement in the withdrawal network of the terrestrial snail.
A cluster of serotonergic cells in the rostral part of pedal ganglia of the terrestrial snail Helix lucorum was shown previously to participate in modulation of withdrawal behavior and to be necessary for elaboration of aversive withdrawal conditioning in intact snails.Contingent local extracellular stimulation of the serotonergic cells selectively increased synaptic responses to conditioned nerve stimulation in the premotor interneurons involved in withdrawal (the difference between paired and explicitly unpaired sessions was significant, P
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