Fabio Benfenati

TL;DR: Auditory cortex activation by salient stimuli degrades potentially distracting sensory processing in visual cortex by recruiting local, translaminar, inhibitory circuits, via cortico-cortical connections.

TL;DR: Patch-clamp recordings of pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex revealed that stress increased glutamatergic transmission through both pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms, and that antidepressants may normalize it by reducing release probability.

TL;DR: The present findings indicate that tetanus toxin, and possibly also the botulinum neurotoxins, are metalloproteases and that they block neurotransmitter release via this protease activity.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the binding of the C-terminal region of synapsin I involves the regulatory domain of a synaptic vesicle-associated form of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, and that this form of the kinase functions both as a binding protein for synapsIn I, and as an enzyme that phosphorylates synapin I and promotes its dissociation from the vesicles.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that this bio-organic interface restored light sensitivity in explants of rat retinas with light-induced photoreceptor degeneration, suggesting that all-organic devices may play an important future role in sub-retinal prosthetic implants.