Synaptic Plasticity: The Brain's Response to Experience
Robert Malenka - Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. After graduating from Harvard College he received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1983 from Stanford University School of Medicine. Over the ensuing 6 years he completed residency training in psychiatry at Stanford and 4 years of postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
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Researchers develop new tool for watching and controlling neural activity
December 11, 2020 - Stanford News
An interdisciplinary team of scientists under Clark Center building residents and Stanford Bio-X affiliated...
Brain tumors form synapses with healthy neurons
September 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michelle Monje and Robert Malenka, Stanford Bio-X Genentech...
A conversation with veteran Stanford brain researcher Rob Malenka
April 9, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
In an interview in the journal Neuron, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Rob Malenka discusses a...