Juan Marcos Alarcon
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Division of Neuroscience
Suny Downstate Medical Center
United States of America
Biography
Juan Marcos Alarcon is currently working as Assistant Professor in the department of Pathology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, United States of America.
Research Interest
Understanding how the brain changes with experience is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Our research projects attempt to address this question by characterizing how neuronal and synaptic circuit function changes by experience-driven neural activity.
Publications
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Alarcon JM, Barco A, Kandel ER (2006) Capture of L-LTP within and across the apical and basilar dendritic compartments of CA1 pyramidal neurons: synaptic tagging is compartment restricted. J Neurosci 26: 256-264.
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Nicholls RE, Alarcon JM, Malleret G, Vronskaya S, Grody MB et al. (2008) Transgenic mice lacking NMDAR-dependent LTD exhibit deficits in behavioral flexibility. Neuron 58: 104-117.
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Barco A, Lopez de Armentia M, Alarcon JM (2008) Synapse-specific stabilization of plasticity processes: The synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis revisited ten years later. NeurosciBiobehavRev 32: 831-851.
