Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 7 hours 51 minutes
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Seema Agarwala (UT Austin) discusses the biomechanics of neural tube formation and closure in early embryogenesis.
Duration: 42 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Gary Gaufo (Assoc Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Micky Marinelli (UT Austin) discusses some of the heterogeneities in the dopamine system between adolescents and adults that may prevent associations between cause and punishment...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Michael Drew (UT Austin) discusses how his lab probes the bidirectional relationship between behavior and adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus.
Duration: 35 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Doug Grow (Graduate Student)
Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
John Huguenard (Stanford) discusses his work on deciphering the neuronal mechanisms that underlie synchronous oscillatory activity in the thalamus, cortex and thalamocortical system, with specific emphasis on understanding the role of microcircuits in epilepsy...
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Thomas Hnasko (UCSD) discusses using modern molecular genetic tools in mouse models to understand the neural circuitry involved in motivated behaviors.
Duration: 30 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Gerard Beaudoin (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)
Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA)
Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Joe Cheer (University of MD School of Med) discusses how endogenous cannabinoids might provide a possible braking mechanism for naturally occurring dopamine responses during motivated behaviors, and how this could be relevant to addiction relapse...