Heikki Tanila, MD, PhD is Professor of Translational Neuroscience at A. I. Virtanen Institute, University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, Finland. He obtained his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Helsinki, did his post-doc at State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA, during 1993-1995, and since 1996 has been active in Kuopio. In 2011 he spent one year at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. He has over 30 years of experience in experimental memory research. He has made major contribution in revealing age-related changes in hippocampal information processing of rats. More recently, his laboratory has studied the neural mechanisms of memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease using transgenic mice as models. His laboratory first showed memory enhancing effect of the latest Alzheimer drug memantine in a transgenic Alzheimer model mouse and the susceptibility of APP transgenic mice to seizures. He has over 200 peer-reviewed international publications and an H-index of 57.

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