Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 7 hours 51 minutes
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University) discusses “memory fields” in hippocampus as a way to think about the fundamental associative properties of the hippocampus. He introduces place cells, and discusses the discovery that these cells code for time as well as space, as well as other dimensions.
Duration: 35 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Alfonso Apicella (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Isabel Muzzio (Assoc...
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Susan Patterson (Temple University) introduces neuro-immune interactions in the CNS, and discusses her ideas about how immune dysregulation and cognitive vulnerability may collide in the aging brain.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Isabel Muzzio (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music...
Yoland Smith (Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University) discusses how the motor symptoms of Parkinsonism may not connect with our emerging understanding of the the complex interconnectivity of the basal ganglia thalamo-cortical loop. The group discuss anatomical details of the circuit in rodent and primate, and consider other possible network components that might generate the complex pathophysiology of Parkinson’s Disease...
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Art Riegel (Medical University of South Carolina) talks with the group about competing ideas of a dopamine neuron archetype and our deepening sense of the heterogeneity of dopamine neurons. He discusses how he is examining the mechanisms and transducers of stress on the dopamine system.
Duration: 30 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Carlos Paladini (Assoc...
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Geoffrey Schoenbaum (National Institutes of Drug Abuse) discusses the advantages of using principles of learning theory in physiological investigations of associative learning and decision making. The group reflects on the caveats of constraining behavior and losing the generality of coding
Duration: 30 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Carlos Paladini (Assoc...
Thursday, December 1, 2016
David Weinshenker (Emory U School of Med ) discusses norepinephrine physiology and it’s relevance to the neuropathology of degenerative diseases and addiction.
Duration: 47 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Carlos Paladini (Assoc...