Ahmed El-Kordi

Date of birth
16.12.1982

Place of birth
Cairo, Egypt

EDUCATION

Ahmed El-Kordi

College / University
Georg-August-University Göttingen

Degree
Diploma in Psychology

Major Subjects
Biological and Clinical psychology

Lab Experience
Experimental techniques addressing neurological and cognitive functions in rodents (with main focus on executive functions and attention), surgical techniques in mice, neuropsychological assessment in humans.

Affiliation-Address:
Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine
Div. of Clinical Neurosciences
Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
37075 Göttingen
Germany

phone: +49-551-3899 535
e-mail:

Further Information:
www.em.mpg.de

PROJECTS / RESEARCH

Current title of PhD project: "Assessment of higher brain functions in mice within the framework of establishing genetic-environmental models of schizophrenia and of the receptiveness of these functions to neuroprotective/neuroregenerative strategies."

Impairment of executive functions and attention are among the most severe and devastating cognitive symptoms in many neuropsychiatric diseases like schizophrenia, autism and affective disorders. The My research focuses on: (1) Modifying and improving existing experimental methods for the assessment of higher brain functions in mice; (2) Developing new methods for addressing core aspects of attention in mice, and (3) Exploiting potential neuroprotective/neuroregenerative approaches for improving cognitive deficits in rodent models of neuropsychiatric disorders.

SOURCE OF FUNDING

MPIEM work contract

MEMBERSHIPS

Associate member of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Biological psychology and Neuropsychology.

PUBLICATIONS

El-Kordi A, Radyushkin K and Ehrenreich H (2009). Erythropoietin improves operant conditioning and stability of performance in mice. BMC Biology 7: 37

Reim K, Regus-Leidig H, Ammermüller J, El-Kordi A, Radyushkin K, Ehrenreich H, Brandstätter JH, Brose N (2009). Aberrant function and structure of retinal ribbon synapses in the absence of complexin 3 and complexin 4. J Cell Sci 1;102 ( Pt.9): 1352-61

Radyushkin K, Hammerschmidt K, Boretius S, Varoqueaux F, El-Kordi A, Ronnenberg A, Winter D, Frahm J, Fischer J, Brose N, Ehrenreich H. (2009). Neuroligin-3 deficient mice: Model of a monogenic heritable form of autism with an olfactory deficit. Genes Brain Behav 8(4): 416-25

El-Kordi A, Radyushkin K, Adamcio B and Ehrenreich H (2009). Rodent models of schizophrenia: Past, present and future. In: Endophenotypes of Psychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disorders in Rodent Models. Ed. Granon S. Signpost.