Biography:
Lynda El-Hassar is a research scientist working currently at Yale School of Medicine in the Neurobiology and Pharmacology departments. As electrophysiologist in brain slices of rodents, she focuses her research on the functional reorganization of voltage-gated potassium channels, ionotropic and metabotropic glutamatergic receptors involved in neurological disorders such as Epilepsy, Schizophrenia abd Fragile X syndrome.
Title : Modulators of Kv3 channels regulate firing rate and temporal accuracy of auditory brainstem neurons in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome