Köhr G, Li SB. : CSC China Scholarship Council: Dopamine and the hippocampus. 09/2010-08/2013.
We activate the dopaminergic system pharmacologically, electrically, or optogenetically following virus-mediated transfer of channelrhodopsin, to investigate the role of endogenous dopamine in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and network activity in brain slices and in awake mice during learning and memory formation.