
Sadiyah CASSIM
September 2016
20-04-2018
Year 1
September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2017
UEI (Unité d'Enseignement isolé)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Lab rot 1: Using non-invasive brain stimulation to induce neural circuit repair
Lab rot 2: Investigation of the CA2 area of the hippocampus and its role in non-spatial memory
Lab rot 3: STDP in the thalamostriatal circuitry
Biography/CV
Publications
- Robert, V., Cassim, S., Chevaleyre, V., Piskorowski, RA. Hippocampal CA2: properties and contribution to hippocampal function, Cell Tissue Res (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00441-017-2769-7 - Sadiyah Cassim, Lihle Qulu, Musa V. Mabandla, Prenatal stress and early life febrile convulsions compromise hippocampal genes MeCP2/REST function in mid-adolescent life of Sprague-Dawley rats, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Available online 7 September 2015, ISSN 1074-7427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2015.09.002
- Sadiyah Cassim, Lihle Qulu, Musa V. Mabandla, The Therapeutic Effects of Searsia chirindensis, on Short Term Cognitive Impairment Associated with Febrile Seizure Exposure in Prenatally Stressed Rats (In preparation).
- Sadiyah Cassim, Lihle Qulu, Musa V. Mabandla. The effects of prenatal stress on neuronal plasticity markers in febrile seizure induced rats. (In preparation).
Affiliations
Southern African Neuroscience Society (SANS);
Society of Neuroscientists Africa (SONA) &
International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO);
Federation of European Neuroscientists (FENS)