Paul Colombo, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology

University of California, Berkeley, Physiological Psychology, 1994.

Associate Professor of Psychology. Neuronal mechanisms of memory formation and age-related memory impairment. (E-MAIL add.: pcolomb@tulane.edu)

• Brightwell JJ, Gallagher M, Colombo PJ. Hippocampal CREB1 but not CREB2 is decreased in aged rats with spatial memory impairments. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2004 81:19-26.
• Countryman, R.A., Orlowski, J.D., Brightwell, J.J., Oskowitz, A.Z. & Colombo, P.J. (In Press). CREB phosphorylation and c-Fos expression in the hippocampus of rats during acquisition and recall of a socially transmitted food preference. Hippocampus.
• Colombo, P.J. (In Press). Learning-induced activation of transcription factors among multiple memory systems. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
• Colombo, P.J., Brightwell, J.J., & Countryman, R.A. Cognitive strategy-specific increases in phosphorylated CREB and c-Fos in the hippocampus and dorsal striatum. J. Neuroscience 23:3547-3554, 2003.
• Colombo, P.J., Brightwell, J.J., & Countryman, R.A. Cognitive strategy-specific increases in phosphorylated CREB and c-Fos in the hippocampus and dorsal striatum. J. Neuroscience 23:3547-3554, 2003.
• Colombo, P.J. and Gallagher, M. Individual differences in spatial memory among aged rats are related to protein kinase Cg immunoreactivity in CA1 of hippocampus. Hippocampus 12:285-289, 2002.
• Nicolle, M.J., Colombo, P.J., Gallagher, M., & McKinney, M. Metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated phosphoinositide turnover is blunted in spatial learning-impaired aged rats. J. Neuroscience, 19, 9604-9610, 1999.
• Colombo, P.J. and Gallagher, M. Individual differences in spatial memory and striatal ChAT activity among young and aged rats. Neurobiol. Learn. Memory. 70:314-327, 1998.
• Colombo, P.J., Wetsel, W.C., and Gallagher, M. Spatial memory is related to hippocampal subcellular concentrations of calcium-dependent protein kinase C isoforms in young and aged rats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 94, 14195-14199, 1997.

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