RNDr. Stepan Kubik, PhD. and Tomas Petrasek, MSc. PhD., both from the Dpt. of Neurophysiology of Memory have been awarded at the Conference of Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society in Jesenik, Czech Republic in January 2015. Stepan Kubik has been awarded with the prize for the best preclinical Neuropsychopharmacological paper in 2015. Tomas Petrasek has been awarded with the prize for the best lecture in New Research Section.

Awarded paper: Kubík S, Buchtová H, Valeš K, Stuchlík A. MK-801 Impairs Cognitive Coordination on a Rotating Arena (Carousel) and Contextual Specificity of Hippocampal Immediate-Early Gene Expression in a Rat Model of Psychosis. Front Behav Neurosci. 2014;8:75. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00075. IF = 4.2 (2013)

Awarded lecture: Petrasek T, Vojtěchová I, Prokopová I, Stuchlík A. Decreased expression of Nogo-A in transgenic rat as a neurodevelopmental animal model of schizophrenia