Neurology Grand Rounds

Innate immune mechanisms of synapse remodeling during brain development

Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
and Grae Davis, PhD - Professor and Chair, Biochemistry and Biophysics

Objectives:

• Describe genetic and epidemiologic links between immune system and neurodevelopmental disorders
• Describe animal models used to study brain-immune interactions
• Appreciate some of the cells and molecules involved in brain-immune communication