Scott Thompson – “Anti-Marlboro Man”

Speaker 3: Scott Thompson, USA

Chronic stress leads to a weakening of excitatory synaptic transmission within and between multiple brain regions. In this talk I will discuss a model in which chronic stress impairs excitatory synapses in multiple sites with cortico-mesolimbic reward circuitry thereby producing depressive-like behavioral changes, such as anhedonia. In this model, weakening of excitatory synapses within and bet...

How I nearly became a Marlboro man.

The Marlboro Man on coral beaches.

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Gordon Scott Fulcher: Renaissance Man of Glass Science

*Correspondence: John C. Mauro, SP-FR-05, Corning, NY 14831, USA e-mail: [email protected] To a glass scientist, the name “Fulcher” conjures images of viscosity vs. temperature diagrams for glass-forming liquids. Indeed, Gordon Fulcher’s seminal 1925 publication, in which he proposed his three-parameter model of viscosity, is one of the most significant and influential papers ever published in...