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 87: Episode 87 -- Erich Jarvis, PhD
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Erich Jarvis (Duke University/HHMI) discusses evolutionary origins of the vocal motor learning pathway in songbirds, his new work on vocal communication in a new mammalian species, and his spearheading of the Avian Brain Nomenclature forum as a consensus building effort that shaped a decade of avian brain research...
episode 88: Episode 88 -- Anastassios Tzingounis, PhD
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Anastassios Tzingounis (University of CT) discusses the mysterious slow after-hyperpolarization current, and talks about a candidate component mechanism he has described that involves the calcium sensor hippocalcin. He also discusses how he is using atomic force microscopy to map changing distributions of ion channels on living cells...
episode 89: Episode 89 -- Barry Connors, PhD
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Barry Connors (Brown University) talks about the historical timeline of research on electrical synapses. He discusses his experimental exploration of synchrony in cortical interneurons and considers theoretical models of weakly coupled oscillators...
episode 90: Episode 90 -- Mark Laubach, PhD
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Mark Laubach (Yale School of Medicine) discusses mouse frontal cortex as a model for human frontal cortical function. He talks about the anterior cingulate cortex as an area in the context of performance monitoring and adaptive control...
episode 91: Episode 91 -- Simon Giszter, PhD
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Simon Giszter (Drexel School of Medicine) discusses spinal cord modularity based on the idea of motor primitives as optimization learning constraints that can be flexibly modulated by cortical inputs. He discusses ideas about the origins of motor primitives (are they built by evolution at the level of the species or online at the level of the task for individuals), and describes possible neural mechanisms for how spinal primitives may be orchestrated...