Primary Recipient

THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$110,779.00

Award Date

9/21/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are essential to behaviors as basic as breathing and as mysterious as motivation, memory and mood. Loss of cholinoceptive sites, evident as decreased nAChRs and deterioration of central cholinergic projections ar