Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.
Dr. McEwen reports no commercial conflict of interest.
Release Date: 05/08/2002
Termination Date: 05/08/2005
Estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s).
Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine is accredited
by the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.
 
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this Cyberounds
®, the participant should be able to:
- Discuss how the region of the brain called the hippocampus is plastic and capable of being remodeled by hormones and experience in the adult
- Describe processes by which stress can remodel neuron number and dendritic branching in the hippocampus
- Explain the regulation of synapse formation by estrogens in the female hippocampus.