Faculty Fellows

Don Cooper

447 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0447
phone:(303) 735-1355
fax:(303) 492-8063
email:
D.Cooper@Colorado.edu

Recent Publications

Research Interests:

Dr. Cooper's neurophysiology laboratory seeks to understand information processing in the brain motivation/reward memory circuitry and characterize the adaptations and impaired neural memory mechanisms associated with depression, addiction and schizophrenia.

For more information, please visit the Cooper Lab

Selected Publications:

1.Sidiropoulou K.,Lu, FM ,Fowler M,Xiao, R, Ozkan E, Phillips C, Zhu, M.,White F.J. Cooper DC (2009) Dopamine modulation of prefrontal cortical mGluR5-mediated intrinsic regenerative activity Nat Neurosci. 12(2): 287-300. Link

2. Moore S.J. Cooper DC Spruston N. P. (2009) Bidirectional plasticity of burst firing is regulated by synergistic activation of metabotropic glutamate and acetylcholine receptors in pyramidal neurons of subiculum. Neuron 61(2):187-194. Link

3. Krishnan V, Han MH*, Graham DL, Berton O, Renthal W, Laplant Q, Graham A, Russo SJ, Lutter M, Lagace DC, Ghose S, Reister R, Tannous P, Green TA, Neve RL, Chakravarty S, Eisch AJ, Self DW, Lee FS, Tamminga C, Cooper DC, Gershenfeld HK, Nestler EJ (2007) Molecular Mechanisms of Resilience in Brain Reward Regions. Cell 131(2):391-404. Link