Recent advances in basic neurosciences and brain disease: from synapses to behavior

Guo-Qiang Bi¹ , Vadim Bolshakov² , Guojun Bu³ , Catherine M Cahill⁴ , Zhou-Feng Chen⁵ , Graham L Collingridge⁶ , Robin L Cooper⁷ , Jens R Coorssen⁸ , Alaa El-Husseini⁹ , Vasco Galhardo¹⁰ , Wen-Biao Gan¹¹ , Jianguo Gu¹² , Kazuhide Inoue¹³ , John Isaac¹⁴ , Koichi Iwata¹⁵ , Zhengping Jia¹⁶ , Bong-Kiun Kaang¹⁷ , Mikito Kawamata¹⁸ , Satoshi Kida¹⁹ , Eric Klann²⁰ , Tatsuro Kohno²¹ , Min Li²² , Xiao-Jiang Li²³ , John F MacDonald¹⁶ , Karim Nader²⁴ , Peter V Nguyen²⁵ , Uhtaek Oh²⁶ , Ke Ren²⁷ , John C Roder²⁸ , Michael W Salter¹⁶ , Weihong Song⁹ , Shuzo Sugita¹⁶ , Shao-Jun Tang²⁹ , Yuanxiang Tao³⁰ , Yu Tian Wang³¹ , Newton Woo³² , Melanie A Woodin³³ , Zhen Yan³⁴ , Megumu Yoshimura³⁵ , Ming Xu³⁶ , Zao C Xu³⁷ , Xia Zhang³⁸ , Mei Zhen²⁸ and Min Zhuo¹⁶

¹  Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

²  Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University, Boston, USA

³  Department of Pediatrics, and Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

⁴  Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

⁵  Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

⁶  Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

⁷  Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

⁸  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

⁹  Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

¹⁰  Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

¹¹  Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA

¹²  Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

¹³  Department of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan

¹⁴  NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, USA

¹⁵  Department of Physiology, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

¹⁶  Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

¹⁷  Department of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

¹⁸  Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

¹⁹  Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

²⁰  Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

²¹  Division of Anesthesiology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

²²  Department of Neuroscience and High Throughput Biology Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

²³  Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

²⁴  Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

²⁵  Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

²⁶  Sensory Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

²⁷  Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

²⁸  Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

²⁹  Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA

³⁰  Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

³¹  Brain Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

³²  NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, USA

³³  Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

³⁴  Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

³⁵  Department of Basic Medicine, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan

³⁶  Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

³⁷  Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA

³⁸  Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada