Remember Me? Adolescent Thalamic Inhibition Leads to Deficits in Cortical Maturation and Social Memory

Isabel Bravo¹, Christoph Kellendonk^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, New York, New York.
² Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York.
³ Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Columbia University, New York, New York.
⁴ Division of Molecular Therapeutics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York.

Isabel Bravo et al. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci. 2025.

. 2025 May 30;5(4):100543.

doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100543. eCollection 2025 Jul.

Isabel Bravo¹, Christoph Kellendonk^{2

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¹ Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, New York, New York.
² Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York.
³ Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Columbia University, New York, New York.
⁴ Division of Molecular Therapeutics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York.

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