Tak Pan Wong
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Tak Pan Wong is an Associate Professor at McGill University and a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. Dr. Wong is interested in understanding the biological underpinnings of stress-related psychiatric disorders. Using a combination of behavioral, electrophysiological, and molecular techniques, he studies molecular mechanisms of how stress affects the communication between neurons in rodent models that mimic psychopathologies of disorders such as PTSD, depression and schizophrenia. Findings from this research program will help us understand the contribution of dysfunctional neuronal communication to stress-related psychiatric disorders and provide rationales for developing therapeutic targets for these disorders.
Research Interest
Glutamate receptor, electrophysiology, synaptic plasticity, stress
Publications
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Primary Blast-Induced Changes in Akt and GSK3β Phosphorylation in Rat Hippocampus. Wang Y, Sawyer TW, Tse YC, Fan C, Hennes G, Barnes J, Josey T, Weiss T, Nelson P, Wong TP.
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Morphological and functional changes in the preweaning basolateral amygdala induced by early chronic stress associate with anxiety and fear behavior in adult male, but not female rats. Guadagno A, Wong TP, Walker CD.
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Generalization of Conditioned Auditory Fear is Regulated by Maternal Effects on Ventral Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity. Nguyen HB, Parent C, Tse YC, Wong TP, Meaney MJ.
