Winners of Brain Research Young Investigator Awards 2004

Each year, Elsevier Science and the Editors of Brain Research are very pleased to announce the names of up to four recipients of a "Brain Research Young Investigator Award".
In the opinion of the scientific committee evaluating the candidates for this Award, those young scientists did outstanding research which is represented by their articles published in Brain Research.

November 2004

Awards

Carlos Manuel Margarido Matias
Department of Physics and Center for Neurosciences of Coimbra, University of Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal

Measurement of presynaptic zinc changes in hippocampal mossy fibers
M.E. Quinta-Ferreira, C.M. Matias, M. Arif and J.C. Dionísio
Brain Research 1026 (2004) 1-10

John Reynolds
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and the Neuroscience Research Centre, School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, P.O. Box 913, Lindo Feguson Bldg., Dunedin, New Zealand

The corticostriatal input to giant aspiny interneurons in the rat: a candidate pathway for synchronising the response to reward-related cues
John N. J. Reynolds and Jeffery R. Wickens
Brain Research 1011 (2004) 115-128

Rie Suzuki
Department of Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Descending facilitatory control of mechanically evoked responses is enhanced in deep dorsal horn neurones following peripheral nerve injury
Rie Suzuki, Wahida Rahman, Stephen P. Hunt and Anthony H. Dickenson
Brain Research 1019 (2004) 68-76

Honorable Mention

Pascal Hilber
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de l'Apprentissage, UPRES PSY.CO EA 1780, Université de Rouen UFR Sciences, Place E. Blondel, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan Cedex, France

Stress and anxious-related behaviors in Lurcher mutant mice
Pascal Hilber, Thomas Lorivel, Catherine Delarue and Jean Caston
Brain Research 1003 (2004) 108-112