Patrician Blandina
Professor
Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Area of ​​Medica
University of Florence
Italy
Biography
Patrizio Blandina was educated at the University of Florence, Italy, where he studied medicine. He joined MD as a Pharmacology department at the University of Florence and received his degree in 1976. In these years he worked both as a physician and as a basic scientist and specialized in Clinical Toxicology. In 1984 he received a faculty position at the Department of Pharmacology of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (USA) supported by a Fogarty International center-NIH fellowship. He spent nearly eight years in New York, becoming first Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He returned to Italy in 1992 and was appointed Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Florence.
Research Interest
Neurology, Cognitive functions, ADHD, Alzheimer's disease.
Publications
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Bucherelli C, Baldi E, Mariottini C, Passani MB, Blandina P. Aversive memory reactivation engages in the amygdala only some neurotransmitters involved in consolidation. Learn Mem 13: 426-430, 2006
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Passani MB, Giannoni P, Bucherelli C, Baldi E, and Blandina P. Histamine in the brain: beyond sleep and memory. Biochem Pharmacol 73 (8): 1113-22, 2007.
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Bongers G, Sallmen T, Passani MB, Mariottini C, Wendelin D, Lozada A, Marle A, Navis M, Blandina P, Bakker RA, Panula P, Leurs R. The Akt / GSK-3beta axis as a new signaling pathway of the histamine H (3) receptor. J Neurochem 103: 248-58, 2007
