Neuroscience for Psychologists

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Marc Zeise is a German neurobiologist who has been working for four decades in investigation and teaching. Having studied biology in Munich and Tübingen he worked on colour processing in the amphibian retina in the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and in the Ruhr-University Bochum until its doctorate. He performed postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck-Institutes for Brain Research and for Psychiatry in Frankfurt and Munich, respectively, elaborating cellular mechanisms of action of diverse neuroactive substances such as baclofen, NMDA, valproate, melatonin, neurosteroids and cytokines. In 1993 he went to Chile doing research on the effects of organophosphate pesticides and methylbromide on the Central Nervous System. Later, in 2004, he became a professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Santiago de Chile. There, he teaches Neuroscience courses and does research on the plastic/metaplastic effects of psychostimulants.

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