Joaquin N. Lugo

Ultrasonic vocalizations and maternal-infant interactions in a rat model of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Effect of amygdalar opioids on the anxiolytic properties of ethanol.

Ethanol exposure during development reduces resident aggression and testosterone in rats.

Perinatal ethanol exposure alters met-enkephalin levels of male and female rats.

Alcohol exposure during development: analysis of effects on female sexual behavior.

Progressive dendritic HCN channelopathy during epileptogenesis in the rat pilocarpine model of epilepsy.

Altered phosphorylation and localization of the A-type channel, Kv4.2 in status epilepticus.

Kv4.2 knockout mice demonstrate increased susceptibility to convulsant stimulation.

Rapamycin suppresses seizures and neuronal hypertrophy in a mouse model of cortical dysplasia.

Inhibition of the mammalian target of rapamycin blocks epilepsy progression in NS-Pten conditional knockout mice.

Kv4.2 knockout mice have hippocampal-dependent learning and memory deficits.

Differential dorso-ventral distributions of Kv4.2 and HCN proteins confer distinct integrative properties to hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell distal dendrites.

Rapamycin reverses status epilepticus-induced memory deficits and dendritic damage.

Deletion of PTEN produces deficits in conditioned fear and increases fragile X mental retardation protein.

Early-life seizures result in deficits in social behavior and learning.

Deletion of PTEN produces autism-like behavioral deficits and alterations in synaptic proteins.

Aniracetam does not alter cognitive and affective behavior in adult C57BL/6J mice.