Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus

Dr. Juan J. Canales is a Reader in Behavioural Neuroscience in the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom). Dr. Canales obtained his doctorate at the University of Oxford and after postdoctoral placements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) and the Valencia Foundation for Biomedical Research (Spain), he became Ramon y Cajal Senior Scientist and later Institute Investigator at the University of Valencia (Spain). Before joining the University of Leicester, Dr. Canales was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). His research focuses on the neuropharmacology of drug addiction, the discovery of new targets for therapeutic intervention in addiction, and the involvement of postnatal neurogenesis in health and psychopathology.

Part I: Neurobiology and Physiology of Hippocampal Neurogenesis 1. Neurobiology of hippocampal neurogenesis   Jose M. Garcia-Verdugo and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla 2. Physiology and plasticity   Shaoyu Ge 3. Neurochemical and molecular regulation of hippocampal neurogenesis   Sebastian Jessberger

Part II: Neurogenesis in Health and Well-being 4. Learning and memory   Martin Wojtowicz 5. Physical activity/enrichment   Brian R. Christie 6. Nutrition and dieting   Sandrine Thuret 7. Aging   Sebastien Couillard-Despres

Part III: Neurogenesis in Psychopathology and Disease 8. Depression   Paul J. Lucassen 9. Anxiety and stress disorders   Catherine Belzung 10. Addiction   Amelia Eisch and Juan J. Canales 11. Neurological Disorders   Kwok-Fai So