Neuroscientists Talk Shop is the University of Texas at San Antonio's (UTSA) Neurobiology Podcast, showcasing the current research of internationally renowned guest Neuroscientists. Each episode features a moderated discussion with a cross section of UTSA Neurobiology faculty, highlighting the featured guest's research, and the state of the art in the field at hand.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 7 hours 7 minutes
episode 155: Episode 155 -- Howard Eichenbaum, PhD
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...
episode 156: Episode 156 -- Susan Patterson, PhD
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...
episode 157: Episode 157 -- Yoland Smith, PhD
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...
episode 158: Episode 158 -- Arthur Riegel, PhD
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...
episode 159: Episode 159 -- Geoffrey Schoenbaum MD PhD
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...
episode 160: Episode 160 -- David Weinshenker PhD
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...