Article Information
- Received July 10, 2005
- Revision received September 1, 2005
- Accepted September 7, 2005
- First published October 19, 2005.
- Version of record published October 19, 2005.
Author Information
- Steven A. Kushner1,*,
- Ype Elgersma1,2,*,
- Geoffrey G. Murphy1,
- Dick Jaarsma2,
- Geeske M. van Woerden2,
- Mohammad Reza Hojjati2,
- Yijun Cui1,
- Janelle C. LeBoutillier3,
- Diano F. Marrone3,
- Esther S. Choi1,
- Chris I. De Zeeuw2,
- Ted L. Petit3,
- Lucas Pozzo-Miller4, and
- Alcino J. Silva1
- 1Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1761, 2Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4, and 4Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0021
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Disclosures
- Received July 10, 2005.
- Revision received September 1, 2005.
- Accepted September 7, 2005.
S.A.K. received support from National Institute of Mental Health-National Research Service Award Grant MH063541, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Institute of General Medical Sciences Grant GM08042, the Medical Scientist Training Program, the Aesculapians Fund of the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, and the Tennenbaum Family Creativity Initiative. Y.E. was supported by grants from Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Zorgonderzoek Nederland Medische Wetenschappen (VIDI and TOP). This work was also supported by a generous donation from C. M. Spivak and by grants from the Michael Tennenbaum Creativity Initiative, NIH (Grant R01 NS038480), Neurofibromatosis (National, Illinois, Massachusetts Bay Area, Minnesota, Arizona, Kansas and Central Plains, Mid-Atlantic, and Texas chapters), and the Merck and Neuroscience Nursing Foundations (A.J.S.). We thank L. van Aelst for the human H-rasG12V cDNA, M. Mayford for the pMM403 plasmids, and P. Greengard and J. N. Jovanovic for the phospho-SynI antibodies. We also thank M. Elgersma for help with in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. We are grateful to J. G. Borst, D. V. Buonomano, P. W. Frankland, S. A. Josselyn, J. N. Jovanovic, K. C. Martin, T. J. O'Dell, and F. E. Schweizer for fruitful discussions.
Correspondence should be addressed to Alcino Silva, Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1761. E-mail: silvaa{at}mednet.ucla.edu.
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↵* S.A.K. and Y.E. contributed equally to this work.
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