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I just want you to know that the PhD now wants to have a meeting to discuss me starting at the lab which I consider thanks to you!

thankyou! That's just what I needed

I figured that this would be the best place to ask, even though this is not homework. I'm trying to look into this research project so that I can apply to volunteer there- but I'm completely lost in the language. I get that it's looking into the causes of schizophrenia, which is something I'm very interested in. Help? "My laboratory studies plasticity and neural adaptation in mesocorticolimbic systems. We have focused on the nucleus accumbens (NAc) due to its involvement in addiction and certain symptoms of schizophrenia (i.e., sensorimotor gating deficits), but we are currently developing strategies for elucidating caudate dysfunction which may afford a more unified model of etiology in schizophrenia. Furthermore, the lack of plasticity and consequent behavioral rigidity which this model attributes to caudate dysfunction are common features of other neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome. This work is interdisciplinary, involving cellular and molecular neurobiology and neuropsychopharmacology, and translational by nature, permitting the extension of our basic research findings into potential therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders." more at http://bms.medicine.arizona.edu/research/researchBio.cfm?ID=14. if anyone feels adventurous...