Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, February 16, 2017 Bennet Ibey (Air Force Research Laboratory) discusses the biophysics of how membranes react to electric field pulses. The discussion centers around our reference point for...

16 Helmi 201748min

Thursday, February 9, 2017 Peter Kalivas (Medical University of South Carolina) discusses how he is incorporating the tetrapartite synapse (pre-synapse, post-synapse, glia and extra-cellular matrix) i...

9 Helmi 201737min

Thursday, February 2, 2017 Harel Shouval (UT Health, Houston) discusses building models for how time constants of neural circuits adapt to reflect the time constraints of the world. For instance, lea...

2 Helmi 201740min

Thursday, January 26, 2017 Henry Yin (Duke) discusses a take on hierarchical movement control based on integrative approaches that marry kinematics and optogenetically controlled behavioral assays. Th...

26 Tammi 201734min

Thursday, January 19, 2017 Leslie Whitaker (NIDA Fellow) talks about how silent synapses in neuronal ensembles might underlie associative learning in the ventral tegmental area and prefrontal cortex. ...

19 Tammi 201738min

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 ...

1 Joulu 201647min

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 learni...

3 Marras 201642min

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 d...

27 Loka 201632min