GABA

Gamma aminobutryic acid, the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system of humans and most other species.

Por sus siglas en inglés, se refiere al ácido gama aminobutírico, el neurotransmisor inhibitorio principal del sistema nervioso de los humanos y de la mayoría de las otras especies.

Kate Fehlhaber

Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience, completing the cellular and molecular track with honors. As an undergraduate, she studied long-term plasticity in models of Parkinson’s disease in a neurobiology lab at University of California, Los Angeles. She continued this research as lab manager before entering the University of Southern California Neuroscience graduate program in 2011 and then transferring to UCLA in 2013. She completed her PhD in 2017, where her research focused on understanding the communication between neurons in the eye. Kate founded Knowing Neurons in 2011, and her passion for creative science communication has continued to grow.

Kate Fehlhaber

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