Article Information
- Received February 11, 2010
- Revision received March 18, 2010
- Accepted March 25, 2010
- First published May 5, 2010.
- Version of record published May 5, 2010.
Author Information
- Kafui Dzirasa1,6,
- H. Westley Phillips2,
- Tatyana D. Sotnikova3,7,
- Ali Salahpour8,
- Sunil Kumar1,
- Raul R. Gainetdinov3,7,
- Marc G. Caron3, and
- Miguel A. L. Nicolelis2,4,5,6,9
- 1Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
- 2Neurobiology,
- 3Cell Biology,
- 4Psychological and Brain Sciences, and
- 5Biomedical Engineering and
- 6Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710,
- 7Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genova, Italy,
- 8Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada, and
- 9International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal Edmond and Lily Safra, Natal, Brazil
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Kafui Dzirasa, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center, 333 Bryan Research Building, Durham, NC 27710. dzira001{at}mc.duke.edu
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Disclosures
- Received February 11, 2010.
- Revision received March 18, 2010.
- Accepted March 25, 2010.
This work was supported by funding from the following: the Wakeman Foundation, the Ruth K. Broad Foundation, United Negro College Fund/Merck, and National Institute of Mental Health Grant P50MH060451 (K.D.); National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants MH-60451 and MH-79201 (M.G.C.); and NIH Grants NS049534, MH060451, and MH084194 and the Safra Foundation (M.A.L.N.). Part of this work was also supported by unrestricted gifts from the Lennon Family Foundation and Lundbeck USA (M.G.C.). A special thanks to Freeman Hrabowski, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, and the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program. We thank G. Lehew for technical assistance, L. Oliveira, T. Jones, and G. Wood for miscellaneous support, and S. Halkiotis for proofreading of this manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Kafui Dzirasa, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center, 333 Bryan Research Building, Durham, NC 27710. dzira001{at}mc.duke.edu
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