Eero Castrén Email Address

Secretary General Elect

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Eero Castrén is currently Academy Professor at the Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Finland. He received MD and PhD degrees in Finland and was trained in neuropharmacology and neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Martinsried, Germany and Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York. His research has focused on the effects of neurotrophic factors, particularly the brain-derived neurotrophic factor BDNF and its receptor TrkB, on the adult brain and their role in neuronal plasticity and in the mechanism of action of drugs acting on the central nervous system. His research has revealed the ability of antidepressant drugs to activate neuronal network plasticity in the adult brain and a critical role of experience-dependent neuronal plasticity in the mechanism of antidepressant drug action.