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Please use it to avoid polluting the alpine area. View Banu Balu’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. On the way to the crest of that hill, you might notice a green plastic thing to your right. But if you turn left and go to the crest of the slight hill, you get a fantastic panorama of the Illecillewaet, Lily and Bonney glaciers, as well as Mt. When you get to the pass, you are looking down on upper Cougar Creek, a spectacular view in its own right. The park trail crew has thoughtfully cleared the slide alder away from the trail, so you can usually see quite a ways ahead on the trail. It stays in slide paths for the next 3.5 kilometres before entering an alpine bowl and switchbacking up the headwall to the pass. (Groups of six have never been attacked by a bear… so far.) įor the first 700 metres, the trail switchbacks steeply up through the forest before leveling off and entering the first slide path. On occasion the park limits access to groups of six or more. The trail will be closed at times by the park wardens. This trail passes through some of the finest bear habitat you’ll ever find. You probably want to know that “Balu” means bear. The trail starts next to the kiosk. Check the notice board for information on bear activity. New lines of investigation are aimed at understanding how molecules known to be involved in schizophrenia also contribute to 1) fear learning and extinction, which has implications for post-traumatic stress disorder and 2) the impairments in synaptic plasticity and neurodegeneration associated with traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease, respectively.There is a wooden kiosk at the northwest corner of the parking lot. They then test the ability of novel drugs to normalize the pathologies in their models with the hope of finding better treatments for schizophrenia. Balu and his staff utilize mouse models carrying mutations in genes that have been associated with schizophrenia, to determine how these genetic changes lead to abnormalities in brain structure and function, and ultimately behavior. Balu is interested in better understanding a particular excitatory neurotransmitter system in the brain, and using this information to gain new insights into the underlying causes of schizophrenia.ĭr. Multiple risk genes of modest effects interact with the environment to cause the illness. Like other psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, schizophrenia is a disorder of complex genetics. Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental disorder that affects millions of Americans.
Balu aims to use these insights into the pathophysiology of disease to test compounds for potential therapeutic effects in his models. Balu’s Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, founded in the fall of 2015, uses a wide array of cutting-edge tools (i.e., mouse genetics and viral techniques, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunohistochemistry, and behavior) to understand the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the synaptic and behavioral abnormalities associated with psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. Neurobiology of Schizophrenia, Brain Injury, and Neurodegenerationĭr.
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