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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episode 56: Episode 56 -- Paul E. Gold, PhD
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Paul E. Gold (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) discusses the idea of studying memory loss to study the process of memory formation and his studies of forgetting in aging populations.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
episode 57: Episode 57 -- Ranier Gutierrez, PhD
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Ranier Gutierrez (Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV, Mexico) talks about oscillations in the distributed network that regulates feeding behaviors, its entrainment by licking, and the significance of his finding that the responses of nucleus accumbens signal meal-related activity.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res...
episode 58: Episode 58 -- Peter Narins, PhD
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Peter Narins (Professor, UCLA) talks about being a member of the founding generation of neuroethologists in the 1970s, and of his pivotal work describing both ultrasonic and subsonic communication in two very different species.
Duration: 44 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res...
episode 59: Episode 59 -- William Spain, MD
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Bill Spain (Professor, University of Washington) talks about spike frequency adaptation in the avian auditory system and cortex, and considers the utility of adaptation for integrators vs coincidence detectors across various timescales. In addition Bill talks about dividing his time as a clinician, and how his clinical vantage point impacts his take on basic science research...