Desheng Wang, MD. PhD

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Affiliation(s): 

West Virginia University

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer's disease; Learning and memory; Electrophysiology; neurodegeneration; Behavioral pharmacology; environmental enrichment; neuronal morphology; pharmacological agents; animal models; animal behavioural testing.

Biography & Research: 

My research has been directed at understanding the neural basis of learning and memory by using the behavioral paradigms of classical conditioning of rabbit nictitating membrane response and rat eyelid conditioning, neuronal tracing and slice electrophysiology as a way to record learning induced changes in the brain.