Nafiseh Atapour

Research Fellow, Physiology

EmailNafiseh.Atapour@monash.edu

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Biography

I received my PhD in Neurophysiology followed by postdoctoral training in Prof.Takao K. Hensch’s Lab at RIKEN Brain Science Institute of JAPAN studying experience-dependent plasticity of visual circuits. I joined Department of Physiology at Monash University in 2015.

Research interests

My research interests are;

Plasticity of neurons and circuits, structural & physiological experience-dependent plasticity
Developmental critical periods
Inhibitory interneurons and network excitation-inhibition balance
Neurodevelopmental disorders; schizophrenia and epilepsy

Research area keywords

Plasticity
Development
Aging
neurodevelopmental disorders
excitation-inhibition balance

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Research Output 1992 2019

24 Article

Neuronal Distribution Across the Cerebral Cortex of the Marmoset Monkey (Callithrix jacchus)

Atapour, N., Majka, P., Wolkowicz, I. H., Malamanova, D., Worthy, K. H. & Rosa, M. G. P., Sep 2019, In : Cerebral Cortex. 29, 9, p. 3836-3863 28 p., bhy263.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Nav1.2 haplodeficiency in excitatory neurons causes absence-like seizures in mice

Ogiwara, I., Miyamoto, H., Tatsukawa, T., Yamagata, T., Nakayama, T., Atapour, N., Miura, E., Mazaki, E., Ernst, S. J., Cao, D., Ohtani, H., Itohara, S., Yanagawa, Y., Montal, M., Yuzaki, M., Inoue, Y., Hensch, T. K., Noebels, J. L. & Yamakawa, K., 19 Jul 2018, In : Communications Biology. 1, 16 p., 96.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

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3 Citations (Scopus)